Do you feel this pressure?

Developers start their career by writing code.

We spend many years mastering our craft and learn to be skilful at writing good code.

But once we get into a leadership role, whether that’s a Senior Engineer, Tech Lead, EM, etc…. our job becomes much more than just writing code.

I went through the same transition in my career so I know what a big adjustment this can be.

I’ve talked to a lot of stressed out new leaders and managers that feel like they’re the bottleneck for productivity.

They wonder if the team is moving fast enough, and feel like they never have enough hours in the day to get everything done.

And it’s usually due to the fact that they’re falling back into their old role because they feel the heavy pressure of a looming deadline.

But as Tech Leaders, it’s important to re-define your definition of work.

Your job isn’t to just write code anymore.

Your job is to mentor and unblock your team so you can be doing higher level work.

To make the most impact with each unit of your work, you have to leverage all your years of experience by clearly guiding the people on your team.

As a Leader you can get far more done by spending your wisdom than you can by jumping in and working crazy hours to ship stuff faster.

You need to slow down to speed things up.

By mentoring more junior engineers, you’ll noticed an increase in productivity and will hit more deadlines.

And the best part?

All of the pressure will be off your shoulders and your team will thrive on the advice you give them.

Want to hear more how you can redefine your definition of work and get the most out of your team?

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Tech Leader Academy

Tech Leader Academy is designed to help developers grow their career from junior to senior and senior to director/CTO level with non-technical skills like leadership, planning and business sense.

Students get access to:

? Training videos and non-technical frameworks for solving “people problems”

? Live mastermind sessions with leadership coaches and other like-minded people

? A Slack community for additional help and networking.

? When you join, you get a 1 on 1 session with Stephen Bates to develop a plan for you to reach whatever your next goal is.

This is a community where you can learn, get a sounding board from each other, and benefit from expanding our networks to create more opportunities.

Whenever you’re ready, there are 3 ways we can help you and your team:

1. Help Senior Engineers, CTO’s, and Fractional CTO’s increase their income on average 90 days after joining
2. Help your startup ship products faster and safer with our pre-built teams
3. (NEW) Help Junior Devs grow into Senior Engineers by leaning into their non-technical skills

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Talk soon,

— Todd Larsen & Stephen Bates