The Power of Coaching in Engineering Leadership

4min Snip

00:00

Play full episode

Summary

Transcript

Episode notes

I definitely think engineering leadership is coachable, leadership in general is coachable. It's my own story. I was on a technical track I thought I would be a distinguished engineer just be happy on my own and I had reasons for that like I didn't say it just because. The basics of being a manager is to care for people right so there's these moments where it just defined me in terms of you need to start leading by showing how you want to be led. Those things just cascaded in and I had I was in a startup after that I had amazing mentors there in terms of how do you actually do harder things at different times. So when you go through this

Former Atlassian CTO Sri Viswanath shares his lessons on engineering leadership, such as aligning goals, handling difficult situations, and optimizing team metrics. Jason, Eiso and Sri talk about their experiences with system failures and the importance of technical mentors and CTOs in promoting better leadership.

Deep dive into the topics discussed in this episode at go.developingleadership.co/ep42

Join the discussion and follow us on twitter @devleadership_

Watch this episode on Youtube: https://youtu.be/VbBYqNtB_cs

Developing Leadership is a podcast presented by Athenian. We are introducing the world of engineering to metrics and data that improve processes and help teams. If you want to learn more about data-enabled engineering, go to athenian.com