Name: How To Build A Fulfilling Career Path For Your Engineers
Uploaded: 2023-08-13T03:16:07+00:00
Duration: 39 min 41 s
Description: We’ve all been there – you want to be there for your team, but you end up pushing back 1:1 meetings because there’s a lo

How To Build A Fulfilling Career Path For Your Engineers

We’ve all been there – you want to be there for your team, but you end up pushing back 1:1 meetings because there’s a lot on your plate. Or your team member wants to practice a particular framework but you don’t have any upcoming work that would let them do that. Or you’re heading into a career development conversation and trying to figure out how to share some tough feedback.

At the same time, a regular piece of feedback from individual contributors is that they’d like their managers to provide more support for their career development..

So what’s an engineering manager to do? How can we help our teams build fulfilling careers while juggling their asks with all the other work on our plate? And how do we balance their development areas with completing the work that needs to be done? Doing this well will not only help our team’s satisfaction and morale, but also support our own progress in our organization – but it’s easier said than done.

This talk provides concrete tips to help you do better in supporting your team on their career development journey. We’ll talk about strategies to:

- The bedrock for a fulfilling career (awareness)
- Make time for 1:1s – even when things get busy!
- Focus 1:1’s on growth & development (not work)
- Balance between improving weaknesses versus cultivating strengths

This is a talk Rahul gave at the [Tech Leaders Chat](https://www.meetup.com/tech-leader-chats/events/293719388/) hosted by [Multitudes](https://www.multitudes.co/).

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Rahul has worked at Kosei, Pinterest, and Meta where he was a tech lead and manager. He's now building Taro, empowering engineers to have more effective and fulfilling careers. You may know him from his 75,000+ subscriber YouTube channel.