WEBVTT 00:00.240 --> 00:00.480 You. 00:06.400 --> 00:09.480 I'm Andrew Murphy and I'll be your guide and tutor as 00:09.980 --> 00:13.320 we delve into the interesting, complex, and rewarding 00:13.820 --> 00:17.280 world of technology leadership. It's a very complex 00:17.360 --> 00:21.800 place to be a leader, and this course is designed to help you understand all 00:22.300 --> 00:25.920 the facets and aspects of that. Whether you're new to leadership, 00:26.160 --> 00:29.960 emerging into your leadership role, or looking to 00:30.460 --> 00:34.040 just become a better leader. The skills that we talk about in this training 00:34.540 --> 00:38.080 course will help you become the leader that you know you can be. 00:41.360 --> 00:45.120 This is a course all around how to get the people around you 00:45.620 --> 00:49.360 to help you succeed in your career. Because we can't do it alone. 00:49.860 --> 00:53.280 Nobody is successful in isolation. We need everybody 00:53.780 --> 00:58.660 around us helping us, and we especially need those really high value relationships 00:59.160 --> 01:02.660 that are the advisors in our lives. And the reason for 01:03.160 --> 01:06.940 this is that no matter how much we expect the people around us to 01:07.440 --> 01:10.779 help us, both our team, our peers, the people above us 01:11.279 --> 01:14.860 in an organization, these become fewer and fewer 01:15.360 --> 01:18.980 as we progress in our career. This is simply the nature of hierarchies. 01:19.140 --> 01:23.150 The higher we are in an organization, the, the less peers we have 01:23.650 --> 01:27.110 around us and the less leaders we have above us. And so we've got 01:27.610 --> 01:32.030 to seek outside counsel. We've got to find a network of advisors. 01:32.350 --> 01:36.270 So this course is to help you with that. It's to understand the 01:36.770 --> 01:39.950 value in this network of advisors, to understand how 01:40.450 --> 01:43.950 to find these people, how to understand what they can do 01:44.450 --> 01:48.250 to help you. It'll help you reach out to your network 01:48.750 --> 01:51.890 of advisors to explain to them why you want them 01:52.390 --> 01:55.090 to help you and what the value of that is. 01:55.730 --> 01:59.090 And it'll also help you find the right value 01:59.250 --> 02:02.610 from those sessions with your advisors. How do you make 02:03.110 --> 02:07.770 sure that it's actually successful? Lastly, we're going to talk about ending 02:08.270 --> 02:12.530 the relationship with an advisor in the best possible way as respectfully 02:13.030 --> 02:16.580 as possible. Because not every advisor is going 02:17.080 --> 02:20.620 to be with you your entire career. The advisor you needed 02:20.700 --> 02:24.620 a decade ago is radically different to the advisor 02:25.120 --> 02:28.420 that you need today, and radically different to the advisor that 02:28.920 --> 02:31.980 you will need in a decade's time. And so understanding 02:32.480 --> 02:36.460 how to end those relationships respectfully is also crucially important 02:36.780 --> 02:40.300 to building a network of advisors. We don't want to be burning bridges 02:40.610 --> 02:41.810 with the people who help us. 02:45.650 --> 02:49.010 Before we dive into the course content, though, I want to talk a little 02:49.510 --> 02:52.290 bit about myself and my journey to tech leaders. 02:52.790 --> 02:56.010 Launchpad. So, like I said in the intro, I'm Andrew, 02:56.510 --> 03:00.370 Andrew Murphy. I've been in the technology industry my entire 03:00.870 --> 03:04.610 career, but I also had the fortune or misfortune 03:05.110 --> 03:08.250 of moving into leadership incredibly early. This gave 03:08.750 --> 03:12.210 me a lot of formative experiences and early on in my career that 03:12.710 --> 03:16.610 led me to be the person that I am today. And I've been 03:17.010 --> 03:20.650 a leader for over a decade. At this point in 03:21.150 --> 03:24.850 various types of software development companies, both consultancies 03:24.930 --> 03:27.169 and product SaaS companies, 03:27.970 --> 03:31.610 I faced a myriad of challenges while being a leader, and a whole 03:32.110 --> 03:35.930 heap of different people that I've worked alongside and had to encourage, 03:36.430 --> 03:40.090 grow developers and influence. And this course matters 03:40.590 --> 03:44.010 to me because I've seen so many times that we've 03:44.510 --> 03:48.050 promoted great people into leadership positions, 03:48.130 --> 03:52.530 but not taught them the skills and the mindsets and the techniques 03:53.030 --> 03:57.250 that are needed to move from this place of being an individual contributor 03:57.330 --> 04:02.050 to being a leader in our continually changing landscape 04:02.290 --> 04:03.490 of technology.