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

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.