Stepping Up - Becoming a Leader in Your Team

A presentation at Agile + DevOps West 2022 in in Las Vegas, NV, USA by Jason St-Cyr

Welcome to Stepping up – Becoming a leader in your team

Welcome to Stepping up – Becoming a leader in your team

Agenda

Agenda

The power of stories

The power of stories

Letting it go.

Letting it go.

To delegate, or not to delegate

To delegate, or not to delegate

Am I holding the reins, or pulling the sleigh?

Am I holding the reins, or pulling the sleigh?

Share

Share

This is NOT like building a spaceship!

This is NOT like building a spaceship!

On lacking flexibility

On lacking flexibility

Meet Chad

Meet Chad

Adapt

Adapt

I work alone.

I work alone.

You expect me to trust you?

You expect me to trust you?

Use your Spidey-senses

Use your Spidey-senses

New boss, same as the old boss?

New boss, same as the old boss?

Listen

Listen

Caught in the middle.

Caught in the middle.

Maybe the team needs a check-up

Maybe the team needs a check-up

Inexperience can be a hurdle

Inexperience can be a hurdle

Punch up.

Punch up.

Avoiding burnout.

Avoiding burnout.

Is management right for me?

Is management right for me?

Hello March 601st

Hello March 601st

Dealing with loss

Dealing with loss

Balance

Balance

Recap

Recap

Recap

Recap

Thank you!

Thank you!

One of the most difficult transitions to make is from being a member of the team, to owning your former teammates performance reviews. It is awkward. It is stressful. And you can do it!

How do you maintain a trusted relationship with your team mates? How do you employ empathy to help yourself understand your team? How do you gain authority and decision making where previously you had none? How do you make decisions that impact the lives of your team in very significant ways? How do you balance your corporate strategic responsibilities with your desire to advocate for your own team member’s needs?

In this session, we’ll take a look at the challenges of making this transition and how you can face them head on. Leveraging the years of experience I’ve built up, you can learn from my healthy backlog of failures, poor decisions, and generally bad ideas. These mistakes were what helped me to learn, and now you can too!

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