1. Figure out the best-fit leadership track: Let your team determine their path, rather than defining exactly how they should be doing their job. Engineers will typically fall into one of the three tracks of career development:
Management track
Technical leadership track
The true IC track
2. Manage the environment instead of people: Leaders should spend less time managing and micromanaging their team, and more time building an environment where the team is empowered to lead themselves.
3. Shift from maker to multiplier: As a leader, your mentality needs to shift from individual contributor to multiplier of efforts. By instilling an ownership among your team, you’ll create the environment needed to maximize everyone’s collective talents.
4. Create continuous feedback—for your team and for yourself: Implement ways for your team to offer feedback early and often with built-in ad-hoc and “pair stair” reviews.
5. Pay attention to over- and under-engagement: Monitor your team’s workloads, so you can step in if someone is at risk of burnout, or re-invigorate those who seem to have mentally checked out.
6. Let your team—and yourself—fall off the bike: An important part of empowering your team is letting them make mistakes without fear. Failure is inevitable and should be learned from.
7. Find your flavor: There is no one-size-fits-all recipe for a great leader. But one component to any good leader is the ability to understand themselves, what their strengths are and how they can apply them to help your team the most.
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