097: The Job of a Manager with Brandon Hays

Greater Than Code

• Episode: 097: The Job of a Manager with Brandon Hays
• Website: Greater Than Code
• Feed URL: https://www.greaterthancode.com/feed/podcast
• Duration: 00:47:54
• Published: 2018-09-12 07:00

Brandon Hays talks about mentorship, management, and leadership skills, as well as maintaining relationships with people, climbing the tech ladder, strategizing career growth. Panelists: Coraline Ada Ehmke | Astrid Countee | John Sawers Guest Starring: Brandon Hays: @tehviking | blog Show Notes: 00:43 – Brandon’s Superpower: Helping Other People Discover Their Own Superpower 02:04 – Maintaining Relationships When People Change Jobs So Frequently 04:31 – Climbing The Corporate Tech Ladder and Strategizing Career Growth 10:25 – Mentorship and Power Disparity 19:00 – Management and Leadership Skills The Manager's Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change 10 Traits of a Great Manager, According to Google's Internal Research (Project Oxygen) 23:22 – Solving Problems Regardless of Job Title 27:50 – Preservation of Context 31:01 – Becoming a Manager…and Being Bad at it! 32:58 – The New Manager’s Toolkit Radical Candor   35:08 – Techniques for Managing From Below to Influence Your Manager   oooooh pic.twitter.com/x3v1jfq2no — 🔎Julia Evans🔍 (@b0rk) August 23, 2018 38:19 – Engineers and Business-level Input Want to help make us a weekly show, buy and ship you swag, and bring us to conferences near you? Support us via Patreon! Or tell your organization to send sponsorship inquiries to [email protected]. Reflections: John: The deeply ingrained thread in “nerd” and “geek” culture how terrible managers are. Astrid: The power dynamics that exist that are untapped in engineering. Coraline: What kind of technical contribution do I want to leave as my legacy? Brandon: Translating skills from previous careers to new careers. Not Applicable: What Your Job Post is Really Saying Are you Greater Than Code? Submit guest blog posts to [email protected] Please leave us a review on iTunes! This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep of DevReps, LLC. To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode. To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and interactive transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps. You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Transcript: CORALINE:  Hello and welcome to Episode 97 of Greater Than Code. My name is Coraline Ada Ehmke. I'm here with Astrid Countee. ASTRID:  Thank you, Coraline and I'm also here with friend, John Sawers. JOHN:  Thank you, Astrid and I'm here to introduce our guest, Brandon Hays. Brandon left the world of marketing to find that creating software made him happy. Brandon lives in Austin, Texas where he leads teams and tries to help make the world of technology a more humane place. Welcome to show, Brandon. BRANDON:  Hi. Thank you so much. CORALINE:  Brandon? BRANDON:  Yes. CORALINE:  What is your superpower and how did you develop it? BRANDON:  This is going to sound a little too on the nose but I really do think that my superpower is helping other people discover their superpower. It is pretty much my favorite activity: sitting down with somebody and understanding what motivates them and what impact that they hope to have and what they care about and helping them combine that with attributes about themselves that are special. We don't always feel special but I think everybody knows there's something about them that special in that confluence of something about them that is either weaknesses that they've worked on so much that they become strengths or natural strengths that they've worked on that confluence of that. Their interests and their desired impact on the world and something that the world really needs is really fun to help people uncover. CORALINE:  You're like the Professor Xavier of the software development world.