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Engineering Leaders in Challenging Environments
Part One - Lead Foundation
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 86 NPS (21 RATINGS) · 2 FULL DAYS
ONSITE COURSE @ Opero.cz, PRAGUE, CZ
Confidently lead engineering teams that ship and scale using techniques and lessons acquired through real-world experience.
hosted by
Marian Kamenistak
🚀 Building Silicon Valley in Central Europe « 🎓 Founder and Chief Coach at Engineering Leaders Community « 💰 $200M+ Series A-D Fractional VP Engineering « Lecturer/Moderator/Speaker
Participants of selected companies
who is this course for
1st time Managers
Engineering Managers eager to excel within their role, who rely on influence to lead, motivate, and deliver the planned outcomes.
Dev to Manager
High-potential developers who desire to transition to the software leadership role with no hiccups and operational complexity.
VCs
Early-stage and startup founders looking to accelerate the pace of their raising product. We boost the most productive dev to the lead role.
This course is popular
2 people enrolled last 14 days.
We understand geeks. No generic leadership wisdom.
We go deep. We go real.
Engineering leader Training syllabus
Part One - Foundation
DAY ONE
01 First 90 days: Gt the new team lead and the team at full speed
- ✅ Gain trust of your team and be a reliable partner for your manager
- ✅ ⭐️ Week by week full tactic exposed
- ✅ Why we are here and the product
- ✅ The top 5 behaviours that kill a new team lead like a plague
02 Your team in balance
- ✅ ⭐️ The truth about your role expectations and goals: Responsibility triangle
- ✅ Engineering Manager scope in real: What responsibilities are the ones you should pay the most attention to
- ✅ Embrace what truly motivates your teammates and promote your team mates
03 Focus
- ✅ ⭐️ How you can ensure your teams keep focused: impact of WIP limits, roadmap, and the 10 sins of prioritization
- ✅ Mastering Priorities, Backlogs, and Balancing Types of Work
- ✅ Meeting ceremonies tips and tricks
- ✅ ⭐️ Agility buzzword vs the reality of it
- ✅ Understanding the whole product flow vs being blind in the implementation
- ✅ ⭐️ Understanding the bigger cycle of OKRs/goals and how it interconnects with teams: create alignment and focus to deliver the roadmap for your manager and the company
DAY TWO
05 Communication Foundation
- ✅ Communication principles
- ✅ ⭐️ 1:1s: Managing you 1:1s like a pro in both directions
- ✅ Productive meeting tips and tricks: standups, grooming, plannings, retros.
- ✅ ⭐️ How to gather and receive feedback, both positive and negative, with no issue
- ✅ Not happy: Navigating conflict and difficult conversations. How to talk to people we hate
06 Communication Mastery
- ✅ ⭐️ How to manage communication with underperformers, jerks, narcissists, and talkative experts
- ✅ ⭐️ How do I manage the decision-making meetings
- ✅ ⭐️ 6 levels of convincing others about your idea/proposal: from stupid to a pro
- ✅ How to communicate with the top management
- ✅ Non-verbal communication: understand the non-spoken meanings
07 Leader Worth Following
- ✅ What defines you being the LWF
- ✅ Live your Leader Worth Following story
- ✅ Enable your learning habit
08 Summary
- ✅ Final notes, action items and homework to accomplish.
€1098 EUR
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 86 NPS (21 RATINGS)
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💰 the course
worth your investment
- We leave generic leadership wisdom behind the door.
- Marian, the host, was in there with you: from writing code to team lead, principal architect in Silicon Valley, up to top management.
- Marian turned companies from crisis to a well-working orchestra, where engineering is not a cost center but super-powered teams, killing competition.
- We dive deep into real, story-driven discussions that I happen to experience.
- We customize each team leader academy workshop like Lego, tailoring it to audience culture, values, situations, and ambitions.
- Our secret KPI? How many participants are taking extra notes while we talk.
- We use the right language form and the language: simplified native English or Czech.
🎯 individual feedback
We’ll help you to navigate the attendee’s career path and the recommendation for your next performance review.
- Workshop NPS score
- Personal profile of the attendee, including strengths and weaknesses
- The top 3 surprising and valuable discoveries
- Improvement opportunities recommendation
Marian’s wealth of experience was incredibly valuable to me.
Marian has taught me to look beyond daily tasks and set long-term goals. This shift in perspective has greatly enhanced my planning and strategic thinking .
Marian’s perception has accelerated my learning and influenced my leadership style.
Thanks to Marian, I was able to share my insights as a speaker at the Engineering Leaders meetup, an enriching experience in my career path
I believe that anyone who has the opportunity to work with Marian will benefit greatly from his experience and guidance.
Marian helped my managers to boost their personal growth, increased efficiency among our teams, improved transparency, and overall satisfaction within the team. His team leader academy workshop feedback was pivotal for my performance review meetings with my direct reports.
I totally recommend any kind of cooperation with Marian. However, if you still hesitate, feel free to join some of his free community sessions to form your own opinion on what he can offer to you.
FrequEntly Asked Questions
- Group: max 12 people.
- Location: Prague, opero.cz, Czech Republic.
- Social media: Attendees are allowed to take screenshots and to take event pictures. We are both eligible to use pictures and event information to highlight the cooperation on social media.
No certificates but change in perception of the World, identifying leadership principles of our own.
Managers who go through our team lead academy training course will be sufficiently improved so as not to make the top recurring mistakes leading to greater inefficiency or collapse.
- We speak to attendees as friends, not as all-knowing lecturers.
- Instead of certificates, we focus on practical knowledge.
- You’ll find few slides but plenty of writing, stories, and interaction.
- There will be mini-homework assignments at the end of each day.
- After each day, participants can book an extra individual consultancy hour for personalized guidance.
- Marian has journeyed from developer to architect to manager, so he understands the challenges and frustrations of tech professionals, especially introverts.
- Marian uses storytelling to make the lessons memorable and engaging.
- We dive into interactive scenarios to improve communication, decision-making, prioritizing, balancing operations and strategy, and delegation.
- We can conduct the workshop for engineering managers in both English and Czech, recommending the native language for better understanding of nuances.
- After the course, we collect feedback and provide a final rating. Participants will also receive a summary and potential evaluations from Marian. All attendees are eligible to apply for Engineering Leaders Community membership.
We inspire people for their mission, and we really like to see people in sessions who are enthusiastic about leadership and come to us with a desire for improvement.
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Engineering Leaders in Challenging Environments
Part One - Foundation
1050 EUR
October 2024 - Class 5
Oct 7-8, 2024
Oct 1st, 2024