Increasing Your Team's Capacity To Win with Dan Portillo and Wade Chambers | Greymatter
Jul 26, 2016
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Greylock Talent Partner Dan Portillo interviews Twitter Head of Revenue Engineering Wade Chambers on managing technical teams, including career development, structuring meetings, providing feedback, and optimizing team performance. They discuss topics like transitioning into an engineering management role, aligning team motivations and thinking styles, shifting responsibilities and team capacity, insightful one-on-ones and changing interactions, building skills for growth, and improving managing up and written communication.
Self-awareness, self-regulation, and motivation are crucial for effective leadership.
Accountability, strategic narrative, efficient processes, growth mindset, and effective communication are essential for building high-performing teams.
Deep dives
Art and science of managing technical teams
In this podcast episode, Dan Portillo interviews Wade Chambers about managing technical teams. Chambers shares his personal journey as a leader and discusses frameworks for structuring productive meetings, providing feedback, and optimizing team performance.
The importance of self-awareness in leadership
Chambers reflects on his early experiences as an engineering manager and the mistakes he made due to ego-centered leadership. He emphasizes the need for self-awareness, self-regulation, and motivation in effective leadership.
Key elements of high-functioning teams
Chambers highlights the importance of accountability, a strong strategic narrative, efficient processes, a growth mindset, and effective communication in building high-performing teams. He discusses the role of leaders in creating the right conditions for team success.
Conflict management and performance improvement
Chambers shares his approach to conflict management, emphasizing active listening, understanding different perspectives, and creating a shared context for problem-solving. He also discusses handling performance issues, including giving candid feedback, providing support for improvement, and addressing motivation or capacity issues.
Greylock Talent Partner Dan Portillo sits down with Twitter Head of Revenue Engineering Wade Chambers to discuss the art and science of managing technical teams. Wade shares personal insight into his development as a leader, and shares frameworks for structuring productive meetings, providing feedback, and optimizing for a high functioning organization.