Level Up Engineering Leadership Program

Identify your natural leadership tendencies and areas for improvement.

“The things that made you a good engineer are not going to make you a good leader.”

Find leaders you respect and observe their actions, especially during tense situations.

“Finding leaders that I respected and just sort of indexing on them and watching how they worked.”

Actively ask for feedback from peers and reports regarding leadership strengths and weaknesses.

Find tasks you can delegate to team members this week.

“That ability to kind of give up your Legos give them to other people and let them do the work.”

Successfully delegate an identified task. Track progress without excessive interference.

“That's delegation piece is really a powerful lesson for all of us to think about because it's about influencing others guiding others coaching others to get their work done as opposed to doing it yourself”

Practice delegating tasks through role-playing with a peer.

During meetings or team events, pay attention to nonverbal cues and interactions.

“One of the most important skills that I think manager needs to learn which is reading the room.”

Explicitly ask team members for feedback on your leadership style and act upon it.

“They tell you all the time this is something just getting off a little bit on a different topic people are always like when is our performance management cycle like when am I gonna get feedback if you work for me you're getting feedback all the time”

Organize and facilitate a team-building activity focused on communication and collaboration.