Summary
The pace of change in business is rapid. Engineering managers that use resilient leadership to navigate and embrace change scenarios gain a competitive edge for themselves and their teams:
- Engineering teams with resilience react to change with curiosity rather than fear and emotion
- Engineering managers increase resilience in their teams by simultaneously preparing their teams for change and preparing change for their teams
- Prepare your team for change by managing yourself, building a resilient team culture, and building resilient team habits:
- Manage yourself through affirming your purpose, building a support network, practicing self-care, modulating your energy levels, and avoiding taking on too much due to bias
- Start building a resilient culture with foundational team characteristics: trust, compassion, the ability to lift each other up, candor, empowerment, humility, confidence, shared mental models, improvisation, and shared values
- Encourage resilient behavior...
