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> No trust in the team. Always doing shit themselves. This was one of the hardest lessons for me to learn. And when coaching other would-be leaders it often is
by jghn 3y ago
> No trust in the team. Always doing shit themselves.
This was one of the hardest lessons for me to learn. And when coaching other would-be leaders it often is a roadblock for them as well.
As one moves into a leadership role it becomes critical that you learn to be ok with people doing things not the way you'd do them. You need to learn to accept close/good enough from your underlings. And the "enough" in close/good enough is going to be a larger delta than you think going into this learning process.
- btilly 3y agoIt is not just "not the way you'd do them". You were promoted for doing your work better than others. Those others did not improve because you got promoted. So you have to figure out how to get useful work out of people who are doing things in a worse way. And let them do things that way even though you already know what's wrong with it.
- jghn 3y agoYes that's also a challenge, and while in similar it's not quite the same.
- coffeebeqn 3y agoIt is psychologically tricky to go from an engineer to a manager or lead. I also used to just feel guilty like I was offloading my work on other people who already had plenty to do. I did then later improve by managing their workloads and the long term roadmap to make sure everyone is working reasonable hours