No Time to Explain, You're the Team Lead!
summary
An overview for new tech team leads covering typical behavioral patterns and common problems when promoted to team lead. Explains managerial responsibilities, how to balance engineering work with management duties, key things to learn about your team you may have missed, and a few questions you should be able to answer for management and clients. Focus is on practical guidance for JavaScript team leads (#js #teamlead).
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chapters (23)
- 0:00Team lead role
- 1:29Becoming a team lead
- 2:33Losing tech skills
- 5:03Task prioritization
- 6:28Hiring and onboarding
- 8:11Onboarding and teamwork
- 9:58Conflict resolution
- 12:26Systems thinking
- 16:23Risk management
- 19:15Growing as lead
- 22:28Theory versus practice
- 23:30Q&A
- 25:16Slow results
- 27:07Responsibility
- 28:53Incompetent manager
- 30:38Lead from another field
- 33:50Horizontal growth
- 36:17Preventing burnout
- 39:09Losing skills fear
- 40:55Maintaining distance
- 42:21Balancing interests
- 44:53Lead role fit
- 47:20Summary
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