Recognize your management wins
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Engineering managers often find it easy to identify their mistakes but struggle to recognize their own wins. This post encourages managers to acknowledge their successes, covering themes like helping teammates grow, changing outlooks, building supportive infrastructure, and advocating for pay equity. It also offers practical advice on how to spot wins — such as tracking former reports' career growth and staying in touch with past teammates — and suggests a retrospective 'highs and lows' exercise to map management milestones over time.
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We help our teammates grow their skills, and their careers.We change folks’ outlooks.We create new, supportive infrastructure.Crucially, we work towards pay equity for our teammates.Notice: it’s often in the most arduous times that our manager wins happen.But how do you recognize the wins?Sort: