Leadership for Tech Experts: Engineer to Manager, 280+ Tools

This course contains the use of artificial intelligence.

You were promoted for being the best at the work. Then you were asked to stop doing it. Here are 283 tools for that change: 178 ready-to-use question lists, templates, procedures, checklists and matrices, 89 models and methods, 14 services shown on screen and 2 working files.

Open a lecture, take the tool, use it with your team this week.

What actually breaks

It is never the technical judgement. A task takes your engineer four days and would take you six hours, so you take it back, and now you are the bottleneck and they have learned nothing. The one-to-one keeps getting rescheduled because it feels like a meeting with no output. The brilliant, difficult person on the team is avoided by everyone, including you. And the skill that got you here, being right and fast, does not help in a conversation where someone else has to work it out.

What changes after this course

You know what the role owns and what you hand over. Delegation becomes a way to develop people, not a risk. One-to-ones produce decisions, a deputy is ready, and goals connect to the team’s work. You coach by asking questions, and mentoring becomes your first leadership mode instead of an extra duty.

What is inside: 283 tools, counted lecture by lecture

You do not have to take this number on trust. Open any lecture and read its description: every tool inside is listed there by name.

• 39 downloadable resources: the lecture presentations plus 2 working files, the four-week handover plan and the personal energy assessment
• 178 ready-to-use tools inside the presentations:
• 57 question lists and scripts: emerging technology evaluation, strategic time allocation, manager development planning, five dysfunctions team assessment
• 36 templates and sample documents: technology strategy outline, delegation ownership conversation, OKR cascading goals, one-on-one meeting agenda
• 33 step-by-step procedures and workflows: technology roadmap development, technical debt management, Google seven-step delegation, engineering interviews
• 31 checklists: CTO first 100 days, technology vision, product-engineering communication diagnostics, constructive feedback
• 13 scorecards, rubrics and matrices: technology selection matrix, CTO risk assessment, RACI matrix, results orientation assessment
• 4 formulas and metric sets: project performance metrics, technology scaling KPIs, employee retention metrics
• 4 other working tools: monetary reward decision tree, personal histories team exercise, team effectiveness feedback exercise
• 89 models and methods explained with examples: Team Topologies, situational leadership, MoSCoW prioritization, Tuckman’s team development model
• 14 services shown on screen, including ClickUp, Trello, Todoist, MuchSkills and Bonusly

Where the tools are

• The technical leader’s role (2 sections, 57 tools). What the role owns, architecture and strategy, delivery, metrics and scale.
• Delegation (2 sections, 42 tools). Letting go of the work and delegation as development.
• Managing the team (3 sections, 101 tools). Hiring, training, deputies, motivation, pay, bonuses and retention.
• Goals and control (1 section, 13 tools). OKR, teamwork and quality control.
• Coaching (4 sections, 52 tools). Asking instead of answering, listening, language and a coaching culture.
• Mentoring (2 sections, 33 tools). The mentoring pair from the first meeting to a proper close.

Who is teaching

I am Mike, the #1 HR instructor on Udemy, with 1,800,000+ course enrollments from 170,000 students, and the author of about 200 books on Amazon. I built the people system at Preply as it became a unicorn and worked at Wargaming, iDeals and Alfa-Bank across 20 years in HR. I hold PHRi, SHRM-CP and HCI sHRBP certifications and represent HRCI in Eastern Europe.

I learned to delegate when my team grew from 10 to 20 people and I was given another HR department: there were more tasks than I could physically do, so I had no choice. Later, at Wargaming in 2016, I wanted to move into Total Rewards, a new area for the company. My manager said they could not leave my area without me, and I answered that I had deputies. The business leaders agreed to work with them, and I made the move.

How to use the course

Start with the four-week handover plan and the delegation sections, then go to the management, coaching or mentoring section you need now. Section and lecture titles show how many tools are inside, and each lecture description lists them by name.

What is included

• 40 lectures across 15 sections, 20 hours
• 39 downloadable resources: lecture presentations and two working files
• 283 tools across the lessons, including 14 services shown on screen
• Lifetime access to all materials
• Active instructor support in the Q&A section
• A Udemy Certificate of Completion

Where to start

Pick one task you keep taking back and plan its handover with the four-week handover plan. Enrol now and start your first lesson today.

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