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Performance season made easy with this proven strategy
Performance review seasons are tense times for managers and reports alike. Here’s a system to smooth the process over.
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Maintain team performance during unexpected change
You’ll have to experience change management at least once in your career. Make sure your teams can maintain performance through it all.
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Unlocking performance management for start-ups and scale-ups
Performance management is tricky terrain to navigate, especially when you’re in a start-up or scale-up. Here are some frameworks to help.
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What do you mean there’s no onboarding plan for engineering managers?
In this talk, Daniel will share his four-week onboarding process for engineering leads that emphasizes peopleware, tech leadership, and delivery management.
Editor’s picks
1:1s Foundations: best practices for conversations that count
Building a safe space during your one-to-one meetings, where your direct report can be open and honest
How can I rebuild a struggling team’s confidence and trust?
When there’s friction in the team you’re managing, morale, performance, and trust all take a hit. How can you rectify the situation?
November 4 & 5, 2025
The leadership conference for tech leads and engineering leaders.
Essential reading
Reasons to step into a leadership role (and the reasons not to)
Thinking of becoming an engineering leader? Let Pat Kua help you with the first step of the journey.
On our Engineering Management playlist
Leading Snowflakes: Oren Ellenbogen in conversation
Understand how to lead unique individuals and improve your overall management skills
So you want to identify and nurture high performers?
Providing growth opportunities for the engineers in your team goes a long way toward motivating and retaining talent.
Resilient Management: Lara Hogan in conversation
Resilient Management is a guide to building, inspiring and leading resilient teams
Tactics for developing junior engineers
How to plan out intentional time for junior talent to be as productive as possible
Planning for success when scaling rapidly
Create goals, prioritize effectively, set expectations, and drive alignment.
November 4 & 5, 2025
The leadership conference for tech leads and engineering leaders.
More about Engineering Management
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The art of giving and receiving feedback as a leader
Providing feedback is a skill. Like all skills, it is one that you can build upon and grow as part of your leadership toolkit.
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An introvert’s guide to engineering management
As an introvert, there might be elements of engineering management that you find challenging. Here are some tricks to help you.
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How to better organize your time as a new engineering manager
If you’re a newly appointed engineering manager struggling to keep track of your own time, here are some tips that may help you out.
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The essential tools for software engineering managers
Management requires a whole new set of tools to those you use as a developer. Here are more than 20 essential tools for engineering managers, from managing your meeting notes, to tracking candidates.
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How to make performance reviews more productive
Receiving a performance review can be very stressful. Planning ahead and narrowing your focus can help you use the feedback in your review productively.
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How leaders can better prioritize personal to-dos
Stepping into a leadership role invites a whole host of new demands. In this article, learn how you can better prioritize them.
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Getting your reports promoted
As a new manager, you may want to push some reports into more senior positions. Here’s how to go about it.
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How to grow your engineers through continuous feedback
For your engineers to know where they’re going, they need to understand where they are. Here’s how to promote growth through continuous feedback.
Top Engineering Management Videos
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Traps when spotting and growing new managers
In this talk, Javier discusses how the success of a manager depends on two things: spotting skillset fit and cultivating habitat fit.
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Building effective engineering teams; lessons from 10 years at Google
In this talk, Addy shares the insights that help grow people into effective individual engineers.
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Critical components of successful delegation
This talk presents techniques to help you be prepared to delegate, sponsor, and coach your team in a way that empowers them to grow their careers and makes your load manageable.
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Effective methods for developing peers and levelling up your mentorship skills
Coaching and mentoring play a crucial role in developing your peers’ potential
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Managing compassionately through underperformance
You’ve identified that a person is underperforming. What comes next?
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Managing performance with clarity and empathy
How to write and communicate clear expectations and gain the confidence to address underperformance.
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Everyone can contribute: Make it so!
Let’s talk about one weird trick your Support team wants you to know