Coaching New Managers, with Tiffany Conroy

Tiffany Conroy, former VP of Engineering at SoundCloud, shares what she’s learned about where new engineering managers stumble and how to support them, considering whether you want to be a manager at all, the value of explicitly asking those around you what success means, the power of having the confidence to say “I don’t know”, coaching managers through their first case of underperformance, how rigid role definitions hold back folks that perform both product and engineering work, the power of the Six Thinking Hats for making intense decisions, and the cultural responsibilities of senior leadership.<ul>
<li><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@theophani">Tiffany Conroy – theophani on Mastodon</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.golaminar.de/">Laminar</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGDryOB8gZc">Tiffany’s talk on Workplace Confidence</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Thinking_Hats">Six Thinking Hats</a></li>
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