Tech Lead Fundamentals - Defining Your Role and Responsibilities
Course details
Strengthen Your Confidence as a Tech Lead with Our "Tech Lead Fundamentals - Defining Your Role and Responsibilities" Course.
The role of a Tech Lead can vary greatly across organizations, often leading to confusion about what the position truly involves. Ambiguity around specific responsibilities can result in misunderstandings and misaligned expectations. Even with a job description, there are often additional, unwritten responsibilities and expectations that can create stress, dissatisfaction, and frustration.
Designed for tech leaders transitioning from individual contributors to leadership roles, this course will help you create a system of reference for your responsibilities as a Tech Lead, providing a reliable reference point whenever needed. It will help you overcome self-doubt and the impostor syndrome, and equip you with the confidence to say "no" when necessary while not causing upset.
What you’ll learn
- How to get a clear understanding of your responsibilities as a Tech Lead: Engage in conversations to gain clarity on your role and responsibilities, and convert expectations into clear agreements.
- A better understanding of the Tech Lead Role and Responsibilities: Understanding how a Tech Lead operates in the middle of development teams, stakeholders, and project requirements. Identifying the typical duties you will encounter, from overseeing technical progress to ensuring team cohesion.
- How to Better Balance Between Coding and Leadership: Ground in reality your coding expectations and balance hands-on coding with leadership responsibilities and determining how much time to dedicate to each.
- Improved Awareness of Unwritten Responsibilities: Recognizing the subtle, yet crucial, aspects of the role that are not always documented and are vital to success.
Lessons
- 1 - Introduction
- 2 - Common ground
- 3 - Coding vs OtherStuff
- 4 - Unwritten responsibilities
- 5 - Ask & Get clear
- 6 - Homework
- 7 - Conclusion
About the trainer
Andra Popa
Tech Leadership Coach
Hi, Andra Popa here. Thank you for reading my profile 😊
If you want grow professionaly into a successful and fulfilled Tech Leader or are already further along in your career and want to work on your leadership skills, please keep reading.
You may feel overwhelmed and ask yourself these questions.
▶ How can I find a balance between supporting the team and getting my own "to do list“ done?
▶ How can I empower my team so that they are motivated?
▶ How can I be straightforward and grounded in the face of conflict and upset?
I work with people just like you. I help them thrive as a leader so they enjoy their job and their life. How do I do that? By looking at how to effectively manage their time, deal with challenging conversations and building strong team through empowering them.
I understand and hear what you are struggling with. I have experienced it myself. I worked in Tech and dealt with the same challenges. I have overcome so many self-limiting beliefs and want to support others in doing so. I'm all about empowering people to discover their own power and find their own self-expression in leadership.
Are you ready to enjoy your job and thrive as a leader?
Book a call and let's talk about how I can support you get there.
https://calendly.com/andrapopa/informal_talk
