Oh some of those situations sound awfully familiar! I've had a couple of lead roles now and while there were many rewarding aspects to those roles, particularly helping people in my team grow their skills and confidence, I also fell into a few of the traps mentioned in the article.
Things I wish I'd done, or done sooner or better:
Learned to delegate
Focus on creating an environment where people can succeed, because they have the right skills and the confidence to use them
Managed my time better by blocking out periods for team admin, meetings, project work
Restructure the team where it's not working effectively
Reached out to another experienced people lead to mentor me
Things I wish I hadn't done:
Felt compelled to attend every meeting I was invited to
Worked every hour of the day and night - in the long run a burned out team leader benefits no-one
Even after being a lead a few times, its still easy to make the same mistakes - like just now I realized that I need to block out time to prep my team's performance reviews, I keep putting it off as not urgent, but it's important and into the calendar it goes.
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Oh some of those situations sound awfully familiar! I've had a couple of lead roles now and while there were many rewarding aspects to those roles, particularly helping people in my team grow their skills and confidence, I also fell into a few of the traps mentioned in the article.
Things I wish I'd done, or done sooner or better:
Things I wish I hadn't done:
Even after being a lead a few times, its still easy to make the same mistakes - like just now I realized that I need to block out time to prep my team's performance reviews, I keep putting it off as not urgent, but it's important and into the calendar it goes.
Thanks for reading!