Leading a growing team is exciting – it means you’ve earned the trust to expand out and your team is able to take on new, bigger challenges. It also means your team might outgrow you, and you need new lead developers to help things scale. Congratulations, you’ve just entered a totally new scope of leadership, leading a lead! Leading other leads is an exciting and scary step to take. It’s now your responsibility to set expectations and goals, provide feedback, and support not just a team, but a new lead. This talk will highlight lessons learned from Monika’s own transition to leading leads. She’ll talk about challenges in reframing your role, as well as the opportunities for your own growth when your team member has a team to lead of their own.

1. WHAT HAPPEN S WHEN
YOUR TEAM L EVE LS UP
Lead to Lead
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2. Monika
Piotrowicz
Director of
Front End Development
@monsika

5. • Developing Leads
• Expectations & Performance
• What changes for you?
Today

6. Where do team leads
come from?

8. Managing 101

9. Am I doing this right?
How can I be less reactive and more strategic?
What’s next for me?

11. When should I think about this?

12. A lead will have some combination of
technical knowledge and skills,
understanding of the business and product,
and trust from your team

14. “Have you considered leading
a team one day?”

15. Start Now
• Ask
• Talk about what you do

16. Start Now
• Ask
• Talk about what you do
• Create opportunities

17. Make Space

18. A lead will have some combination of
technical knowledge and skills,
understanding of the business and product,
and trust from your team
all so they can help develop their team

19. Setting Expectations
&
Measuring Performance

20. micromanaging directionless
laissez faire
🙃

22. Am I doing this right?
How can I be less reactive and more strategic?
What’s next for me?

23. The most impactful thing I can do today is…
Right now I'm not great at…
In a few months I want try…

24. They will do things their way

26. Your New Role

27. “I trust you to do the right thing -
Here’s a list of things you should do”

28. Become a Coach

29. Make Space

30. Take Space
new

31. Own your growth

32. Resources
• Software leads weekly mailer
• http://softwareleadweekly.com/
• Giving feedback with radical candor
• http://www.fastcompany.com/3054668/lessons-learned/former-googler-lets-us-
in-on-the-surprising-secret-to-being-a-good-boss
• The Art of Powerful Questions
• http://www.sparc.bc.ca/the-art-of-powerful-questions

33. QUESTIO NS?
Thanks!
@MON SI KA