Last week, I attended a one-day workshop here in Austin, with Lara Hogan on Demystifying Management. Lara was previously VP of Engineering at Kickstarter and an Engineering Director at Etsy, and she’s now a leadership coach. I have followed her blog for some years, after some colleagues shared her post on work at different management levels, which was super helpful to me as I went from leading individual contributors to leading other team leads.
The workshop was based on the concepts covered in Lara’s book, Resilient Management, and consisted mostly of us practicing and applying those concepts in small groups. There was a strong focus on coaching.