Moving into a new role is a time of both excitement and terror. Omg, so much is new 😀! Omg, so much is new 😫. One element I found challenging when moving into a lead role is that success is measured differently from how it was measured when I was an individual contributor. As an … Continue reading Moving from individual contributor to team lead: how do I measure success?
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How to remember ALL THE THINGS when conducting 1-on-1s as a (distributed) team lead
Tl;dr: I share a private Google doc with each team member, add an individualized agenda each week that includes questions specific to that team member plus information I want to share with all the team, keep notes in the shared doc, and mark action-items in red so I can scan the doc easily to find … Continue reading How to remember ALL THE THINGS when conducting 1-on-1s as a (distributed) team lead