Coaching, Influencing, Motivating & Managing Up - Tackling the Top 10 Engineering Leadership Challenges! #185

The Engineering Leadership Podcast

In today’s episode, we’re kicking off a four-part series on the Top 10 challenges eng leaders face based on feedback from hundreds of eng leaders. In Part 1 of this mini-series, we’re tackling the first four issues: developing & coaching team members, strategies for motivating & inspiring others, influencing / creating organizational buy-in, and managing up & sideways. This episode compiles some of the best insight we’ve gained on these issues from a collection of past ELC episodes, ELC Annual sessions, events, and more, with insight from Tara Ellis @ Netflix, Elaine Zhou @ SageCXO, Pete Peterson @ Riviera Partners, Johnny Ray Austin @ Best Egg, Jan Chong @ Tally, Matt Spitz, Laura Tacho @ DX, and Preeti Kota @ Atlassian, and Dan Kador @ Abridge.

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SHOW NOTES:

• Best practices for building & growing your team’s skills w/ Tara Ellis (0:59)
• Match your high performers with the right fit for their goals w/ Elaine Zhou (8:04)
• Generating & showcasing quick wins to gain buy-in w/ Pete Peterson (12:03)
• Communication strategies for eng leaders to create buy-in w/ Johnny Ray Austin (17:59)
• Three key principles for effectively managing up w/ Jan Chong (23:13)
• Strategies for managing sideways w/ Matt Spitz (26:57)
• Inspiring developer productivity as an eng leader w/ Laura Tacho (30:51)
• How leaders @ Atlassian addressed pain points & inspired developers to address them w/ Preeti Kota & Dan Kador (34:43)

LINKS AND RESOURCES

• A Counter-Intuitive Approach to Career Growth & Internal Mobility with Tara Ellis
• Building self-sufficient teams and operating in constrained funding environments with Elaine Zhou
• Navigating complex stakeholders, competing interests & gaining buy-in with Pete Peterson
• Navigating the Acquisition Journey: Insights on Transparent Communication, Team Integration, and Strategic / Operational Shifts with Johnny Ray Austin
• Managing Up with Jan Chong
• Leading beyond domain expertise & laying early-stage security program foundations with Matt Spitz
• Move beyond measurement & inspire developer productivity with Laura Tacho
• Developer Joy: Maintaining “Flow” and Sustained Productivity with Preeti Kota and Dan Kador

This episode wouldn’t have been possible without the help of our incredible production team:

Patrick Gallagher - Producer & Co-Host

Jerry Li - Co-Host

Noah Olberding - Associate Producer, Audio & Video Editor https://www.linkedin.com/in/noah-olberding/

Dan Overheim - Audio Engineer, Dan’s also an avid 3D printer - https://www.bnd3d.com/

Ellie Coggins Angus - Copywriter, Check out her other work at https://elliecoggins.com/about/