Leadership GardenCoaching
Practical coaching, delegation, and growth conversations for engineering leaders.
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You’re Coaching Too Much
Most engineering managers coach too much, not too little, and they often do it for themselves, not their reports. Here’s when managing is the more generous act.
Stop Solving Everyone’s Problems. Coach Them To Solve Their Own.
Your value as a manager isn’t measured by problems solved, but by problems your team can handle without you. Learn coaching over fixing.
Stop Fixing, Start Leading: How Coaching Changed My Leadership Style
A tech leader shares four counterintuitive lessons from professional coaching that transformed their leadership style. Learn how stepping back, asking better questions, and trusting your team leads to better outcomes
The Human Element: Tech’s Final Frontier
Discover how to transform people challenges into opportunities for growth in tech leadership. Learn strategies to improve team dynamics, client relationships, and personal development in high-pressure tech environments.
A One-On-One Document Template You’ll Actually Use
A practical one-on-one template for managers who want useful conversations instead of empty recurring meetings.
The 5 Common Mistakes Of New Engineering Managers
The most common mistakes new engineering managers make, why they happen, and how to correct them early.
How to stop winning arguments
We tend to treat arguments as fights or zero-sum games which hinders their original purpose. We should stop doing that.
Questions vs. directions
Asking questions is a basic coaching technique but doing it properly is a matter of practice, finding a good balance and avoiding some common pitfalls. As with most of the things in life.
The basics of one-on-ones
A practical guide to one-on-ones: what they are for, how to run them well, and the mistakes that make them pointless.