Tech Leadership Tuesday with Lena Reinhard: How to Avoid Being a Bottleneck Leader with Jade Rubick
Published by O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Ask Lena Reinhard and Jade Rubick your questions around engineering leadership
Leaders strive to empower their teams, but even the most well-intentioned and experienced leaders can also bog them down—becoming one of the bottlenecks and blockers they seek to eliminate, slowing projects and frustrating team members.
In this eye-opening live event, Lena Reinhard and engineering leadership expert Jade Rubick help you recognize the signs that your leadership approach might be hindering your team’s efficiency and flow. More importantly, you'll discover practical strategies to break through these barriers, including implementing novel delegation techniques, setting up effective information gathering systems to reduce micromanagement, and activating the leadership capabilities of your team. This event is ideal for leaders at all levels who want to ensure their leadership style isn’t a barrier to their team’s success.
Tech Leadership Tuesday is a dynamic monthly live event that helps empower people and technology leaders to become more effective and successful in their leadership roles. Each episode delves into a relevant topic for engineering leaders and, through a conversation between a host and guest, you’ll learn about common challenges, best practices, and lessons learned from the guest’s experience. During the event, you may ask the host and guest questions about the topic, their career journeys, or leadership in general.
What you’ll learn and how you can apply it
- Identify signs that you may be inadvertently blocking your team's progress
- Delegate in a way that balances oversight with empowerment
- Deal with situations where you have too much on your plate and aren’t sure how to not do the work directly
- Establish efficient communication channels and decision-making frameworks that avoid micromanagement
This live event is for you because...
- You want to know whether your leadership style is impeding or enabling your team’s success and autonomy.
- You want to be less involved in your team’s day-to-day work and decision making but aren’t sure how.
- You're seeking practical strategies to delegate more effectively.
- You're committed to creating a culture of ownership and autonomous decision making within your tech organization
Prerequisites
- Come with your questions for Lena Reinhard and Jade Rubick
- Have a pen and paper handy to capture notes, insights, and inspiration
Recommended follow-up:
- Read The Manager’s Path (book)
- Explore Engineering Management: The Foundations of Technical Leadership (on-demand course)
- Read The Engineering Leader (book)
- Follow and explore Engineering Leadership Essentials (expert playlist)
Schedule
The time frames are only estimates and may vary according to how the class is progressing.
Tuesday, November 19, 2024, at 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET
- Interactive discussion and Q&A (60 minutes)
Your Hosts and Guests
Lena Reinhard
Lena Reinhard is a VP of engineering, leadership coach, and mentor who also hosts the podcast Leadership Confidential, featuring honest conversations about the joys and challenges of leadership. Having served the majority of her 20-year career in leadership roles with CircleCI, Travis CI, and as a startup cofounder and CEO, Lena is dedicated to helping leaders and their organizations succeed and thrive. She has partnered with a variety of remote, hybrid, and colocated companies at all stages, from startups to scale-ups, corporations, and NGOs.
Jade Rubick
Jade Rubick is an engineering and product leader with experience at many startups, including New Relic, Gremlin, Mode Analytics, and Campus. He writes the Engineering Leadership Weekly newsletter, hosts the Decoding Leadership podcast, and has helped 20+ startups improve their engineering and product teams as a part of his consulting business.