Great article 🙌. I am in a team lead position for around a year now and I could say I share the same thoughts. I was thinking before what are those people doing - meeting here, meeting there, speak with this person, speak with the other person and the day is off. However, working with people is by far the most difficult thing IMO. I can't even try to compare them with coding 🤷♂️.
We should learn to be a little bit a psychologist because every person is different and they should be approached differently. So giving feedback, talking about their growth path, even writing PR comments can differentiate per person. We should put ourselves in one's shoes and try to understand their situation. For example, someone can have a decrease in productivity and we shouldn't hurry and be judgemental - we all go through some shitty periods, have personal problems, .etc, so this is pretty normal. We should try and understand what people are going through. Providing an environment in which everybody will feel safe to do that is very important.
I have always liked "Lead by example". I think in similar positions, we should be a role model for other people and inspire them to become better every day. In my eyes, this is not only for purely technical skills but for life in general. If we can grow together in every direction, the better.
Stopping my thoughts here because it is starting to become like a sub-post 😁. Maybe I will invest some time to structure all of my thoughts and experience for the time being and write a similar article with them.
Great article 🙌. I am in a team lead position for around a year now and I could say I share the same thoughts. I was thinking before what are those people doing - meeting here, meeting there, speak with this person, speak with the other person and the day is off. However, working with people is by far the most difficult thing IMO. I can't even try to compare them with coding 🤷♂️.
We should learn to be a little bit a psychologist because every person is different and they should be approached differently. So giving feedback, talking about their growth path, even writing PR comments can differentiate per person. We should put ourselves in one's shoes and try to understand their situation. For example, someone can have a decrease in productivity and we shouldn't hurry and be judgemental - we all go through some shitty periods, have personal problems, .etc, so this is pretty normal. We should try and understand what people are going through. Providing an environment in which everybody will feel safe to do that is very important.
I have always liked "Lead by example". I think in similar positions, we should be a role model for other people and inspire them to become better every day. In my eyes, this is not only for purely technical skills but for life in general. If we can grow together in every direction, the better.
Stopping my thoughts here because it is starting to become like a sub-post 😁. Maybe I will invest some time to structure all of my thoughts and experience for the time being and write a similar article with them.
However, great post and learnings Neha. 💪
Thank you so much!!!
Looking forward to your article