My learnings from teaching 200+ engineers and leads
- Gregor Ojstersek from Engineering Leadership <gregorojstersek@substack.com>
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My learnings from teaching 200+ engineers and leadsTeaching has been one of the most fulfilling things that I am doing, here are my learnings!
IntroI have taught over 200 engineers and leads in the last 9 months. And a cool thing? I learned a lot from doing this. I've gotten to know all the different challenges and problems that all of my students are facing and we talked through them in our sessions! Today, I am sharing my top learnings in this newsletter article. This is an article for paid subscribers, and here is the full index: - I have taught 8 engineers and leads by hosting a roundtable at the Plato Elevate Conference Resources mentioned in the article:
Let’s get straight into it! I have taught 8 engineers and leads by hosting a roundtable at the Plato Elevate ConferenceThis was in June 2024 in San Francisco, CA. The topic of the roundtable was: “Senior Engineer to Lead: Who to promote and how to train them”. We had a great mix of Senior Engineers and Managers from various companies like Meta, Bloomberg, Google, Lyft to name a few. Which made the discussion very fruitful and there were a LOT of insightful questions asked. Also had the pleasure of meeting friends Jordan Cutler and Hemant Pandey there! You can read the overview of the whole discussion we had on the roundtable here: Senior Engineer to Lead: Who to promote and how to train them (paid article). I have taught 50+ engineers and leads hosting a workshop on C3 ConferenceThis was also in June 2024 and in Amsterdam, NL. It was a 2-hour workshop titled “From Senior to Lead: Grow and thrive in the role”. We covered:
I remember how engaged everyone was in the workshop, there were a LOT of interesting questions being asked and everyone seemed eager to learn. Also had the pleasure of meeting my friend Richard Donovan. I have taught 150+ engineers and leads in the course Senior Engineer to Lead: Grow and thrive in the roleIf you are a regular reader, you have probably seen the course being mentioned in previous articles, but for everyone who doesn’t know → I teach a course that is helping (Senior) Software Engineers to become high-performers and grow to lead roles. Also with the course, I help leads to thrive in lead roles or provide actionable steps that they can use to help their reports to become high-performers and grow to lead roles. It’s a cohort-based course which means that sessions are live and recorded. I hosted 4 cohorts so far:
We have 4 different sessions across 4 days. So, for 2 weeks every Tuesday and Thursday, we meet for 1.5 hours on a Zoom call and go through prepared topics. After each session, there is also a special time of 30 minutes dedicated just to Q&A. The sessions are highly interactive and I encourage everyone to ask questions or share their insights. I believe half of the time in every session we go through the questions and specific cases from the students. For every cohort, we also have a special dedicated Slack workspace, where we all get to know each other better and I use it for faster feedback loops. To ensure that the newly acquired knowledge can be applied immediately, we have 10 different optional exercises across the course. My personal 3 learnings from teaching 200+ engineers and leads...Subscribe to Engineering Leadership to unlock the rest.Become a paying subscriber of Engineering Leadership to get access to this post and other subscriber-only content. A subscription gets you:
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