From tech expert to team leader: Lessons for making the leap

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Are you in the process of transitioning from a technical role to management? Concerned with how you will keep up with your technical chops or how to lead others effectively? Here’s how you can master the career jump from the tech track to the management track.

Making the move from teammate to leader comes with a lot of excitement, but it can carry an equal amount of fear and doubt. Kelly Dassing and Mark Shropshire will share their personal experiences around transitions from technical team members to management roles. Learn from their challenges so that you can have more immediate success in similar transitions. 

In this session, we’ll cover a range of topics that not only apply to managers but many technical leadership roles as well:

  • Managing vs. Leading

  • Responsibility Shifts

  • Delegation

  • Supporting Teams

  • Feedback Loops

  • Emotional Intelligence

  • Self-confidence

  • Self and Situational Awareness

 

Even if you are not transitioning to management currently, come learn about the process to help increase empathy for managers and leaders in your organization and plan for the time when you might entertain a similar role change. Additionally, the session will highlight other common technical role to technical lead role transitions that carry similar challenges.

 

Learning Objectives

At the end of this session, attendees will be able to:

  1. Recognize the difference between managing and leading

  2. Apply feedback loops to support your team

  3. Evaluate your emotional intelligence

Target Audience

The target audience for this session is those individuals transitioning to management currently or in the near future, as well as those who wish to increase their own empathy for managers and leaders in their organizations. Additionally, the session will highlight other common technical role to technical lead role transitions that carry similar challenges.

Prerequisites

There are no specific prerequisites for this session, though attendees will get the most out of this session if they are considering a transition to leadership or are familiar with the potential future leadership opportunities available in their community.

Track

Leadership, Management, & Business

Tags

career development
leadership
people management

Experience Level

Beginner

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