Management
General Traits
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re:Work
re:Work is a collection of practices, research, and ideas from Google and others to help you put people first
Pat Kua 5 Engineering Manager Archetypes
5 Engineering Manager archetypes commonly found in the industry: The Tech Lead EM The Team Lead EM The Delivery EM The Product EM The Lead of Leads EM
The 25 Micro-Habits of High-Impact Managers
Empower your team to act like an owner Be vulnerable and self-aware Turn into a trusted thought partner Lead with empathy Challenge folks with kindness Celebrate and up-level the small moments Keep an eye on long-term growth
Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule
For someone on the maker's schedule, having a meeting is like throwing an exception. It doesn't merely cause you to switch from one task to another; it changes the mode in which you work
Evaluating Managers: 5 heuristics to measure managerial impact
Execution: Does your team consistently deliver promises or excuses?Every quarter, ask external collaborators to rate your team’s execution on a scale of 1 – 10 Collect this sentiment from your manager, skip-level manager, peers, and partners in other roles (e.g., PM, design, support, etc.) People management: Is your team a revolving door? Or a nursery where careers blossom?Team development: Does your team have two years of experience or one year of experience repeated twice?Strategic vision: Where do you see your team in a quarter, six months, and a year?Amorphous targets that continuously flip-flop are a perfect recipe for demotivation, frustration, and distrust Organizational Influence: When did your team last contribute to the larger organization?
How Tos
Managing Projects
Managing People
Use a meeting template Feedback Template
Team Member
Accountability (goals and actions)
Last week
For each of your stated actions from last week, did you get them done—yes or no?
If no, what blocked you?
What habit can you adopt so that you don’t encounter that obstacle again?
Next week
For each of your OKRs, what one action can you take to advance toward each of them?
Coaching (issues and solutions)
Show your OKRs in traffic-light fashion (green, yellow, red)
Show your KPIs in traffic-light fashion
If I were to dig into these updates, what would I discover in your department that is:
Good?
Not good?
Please list any other issues that you see in the company, with peers, with the product, in your own life, etc.
Transparency (feedback)
What did you like that I did as manager?
What do you wish that I would do differently as manager?
Please think of the feedback that you are afraid to give me because you think that it will hurt my feelings. Please give me that feedback.
Manager
Get feedback from your report
Give feedback to your report
Update the team member’s goals
Ask for permission
State the trigger behavior or event (fact )
State how that trigger behavior makes you feel in terms of anger, sadness, and fear (feeling )
State the thoughts, opinions, and judgments (story ) you have around this situation
Make a request of what you would like to see. Try to frame it as positive action (“Do x”) rather than a negative (“Don’t do y”)
Ask if the person accepts the feedback and the request
Plans
Hiring
Progressing