Coaching: Directive vs. Non-Directive Approaches to Support Your Teams' Success
Summary
Learn Effective Coaching and Mentoring to Create Connection and Support Success!
As engineering leaders one of our most important responsibilities is to support our people, and one way we do that is through coaching and mentoring. In this roundtable we'll surface challenges we're facing related to coaching and mentoring, and share our collective insights to help each other learn and grow our coaching and mentoring practice.
Come prepared to share a current challenge and discuss frameworks and approaches for coaching, mentoring, advising, and supporting your people through their challenges as part of your leadership practice.
Host
I'm an experienced technical leader with 20+ years experience leading high-performance teams as VP of Engineering and Operations at several startups including Caffeine.tv, Smugmug, iCracked, and IMVU, and as a Senior Engineering Manager and Technical Advisor at Amazon.
I developed and implemented the Lean Startup methodologies with Eric Ries while at IMVU (literally the first Lean Startup), where my team helped start the DevOps movement by building the infrastructure to ship code to production 50 times a day back in 2009--we coined the term “continuous deployment.” I am experienced implementing Agile, CI/CD, TDD, and a variety of product development processes in teams ranging from 5 to 70+.
