Managering in terrible times
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Resilience resources by topic
Manage your energy
- How to make hard decisions: even-over statements
- How to say no right now
- When to delegate, when to say no
- Manager Energy Drain
Strengthen your network of support
- When your manager isn't supporting you, build a Voltron
- Finding a buddy when you're a team of one
- Don't worry, you’re not wasting your mentor’s time.
- Hold Group Coaching Meetings internally
- How to gather helpful insight from your peers
When your role changes
- Manager handoffs
- Four steps to identifying your new role
- What happens if you become a director without being a manager first?
- Advice for a new executive
- Dealing with your wage gap
- Manager handoffs
- Transitioning to meta-management
- How 2020 has shaped you as a leader
Build up your own resilience
- Recognize your management wins
- Socially visible progress
- Your brain on progress
- Book: Resilient Management
- Distributed Podcast: the secret to being a successful manager
- Scaling Software Teams Podcast: becoming a resilient manager
- Programming Leadership Podcast: rise of the resilient manager
- Changelog Podcast: Leading leaders who lead engineers
- Building Resilience Video Course
Leading through crises resources
Help your team navigate grief
- Managers: what do you do when your teammate shares their grief?
- Handling the Emotional Weight of 1:1s
- Managering in Terrible Times
- How to learn about someone's core needs
- Help Your Colleagues Take Real Time Off By Answering These Six Questions - Forbes
- What to do when your employees are in crisis mode - Forbes
Navigate organizational change & crisis
- We need to talk about your Q3 roadmap
- Dealing with surprising human emotions: desk moves
- Easy check-in questions for your 1:1s during times of crisis
- 3 steps for leaders to take in emergencies
- Creating predictability and stability in times of rapid change
- Communicating big news to your team
- The art of the tick tock doc
- Acknowledging When You Mess Up
- Why can't they just...?
- The skill of naming what’s happening in the room
- Video: Optimising for team health — Tools and techniques of supportive teams who build successful products
- Video: Microsoft for Startups - Create Resilience – Resilient Management with Lara Hogan
Tools
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