Developing Leadership

From Bottle-feeding to Bottlenecks: Parenting & Engineering Leadership with Allison McMillan

Dec 27, 2022

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Parenting and Parenting in Tech

04:19

How to Communicate With Junior Engineers

04:18

How to Earn Snacks for Family Moving

02:10

Introduction

4min

Parenting and the Five Closest People to You

3min

The Special Tricks of Communicating With Kids

3min

I'm Having a Baby - What's It Like?

3min

Is Your Son on the Spectrum?

2min

How to Communicate With Junior Engineers

4min

How to Earn Snacks for Family Moving

2min

Are You Going to Be Motivated in an Environment Where We're All Excited?

3min

Are There Triggers?

5min

10.

How Do You Think Being Inside Corporations Has Changed Your Parenting?

4min

11.

What Is It Like Being a First-Time Parent?

2min

12.

Parenting and Parenting in Tech

4min

13.

Parenting - If You Can't Step Away for a Week or Two You Will Be Fine

3min

Allison McMillan, VP of Engineering at Quota Path, joins us to talk about the transformation engineering leaders go through when they become parents and the lessons we can take parenting to our day-to-day as managers. From communication to rewards vs. consequences to dealing with other humans and their unique challenges.

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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