New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: What training would you recommend for a new team lead
Ask HN: What training would you recommend for a new team lead
3 by eastbound | 3 comments on Hacker News.
Dear HN, I’m a solo founder, Java dev, with 2 employees. On this 7th year bootstrapping, it’s been five years that we’ve met product-market fit and 2 years that we have excellent ARR on stable subscriptions, with a mix of large and small companies, in several industries, so I’m growing the company to 8 people, then 15 people next year. I’ll have to lead that team. I’m not fancy of titles, I don’t want to decide to be CTO or PO or just CEO. For the moment I just would like to be a decent team lead, at least until I learn enough to delegate some management. I have always wanted to be a TL, so I’m not willing to let an external manager own my team. But I have never been promoted to TL in previous companies, since I’m not a naturally gifted “people” person (former anger/frustration issues, difficulty not having anger when obviously the provider is using bait and switch, etc. - but I’m no way near Steve Ballmer’s flying chair). I’ll have to learn to be a manager outside the framework of a large company with established practices. For the moment I’ve been lucky that I’ve met only growth and I could make everyone happy. What books, courses or experiences would you recommend to learn how to become a proper manager over the next year? Setting objectives, KPIs, leading individuals, MBTI, setting values for the company, what topics should I learn (apart from Scrum, which we’re proficient at) and what is an efficient way to do it?
3 by eastbound | 3 comments on Hacker News.
Dear HN, I’m a solo founder, Java dev, with 2 employees. On this 7th year bootstrapping, it’s been five years that we’ve met product-market fit and 2 years that we have excellent ARR on stable subscriptions, with a mix of large and small companies, in several industries, so I’m growing the company to 8 people, then 15 people next year. I’ll have to lead that team. I’m not fancy of titles, I don’t want to decide to be CTO or PO or just CEO. For the moment I just would like to be a decent team lead, at least until I learn enough to delegate some management. I have always wanted to be a TL, so I’m not willing to let an external manager own my team. But I have never been promoted to TL in previous companies, since I’m not a naturally gifted “people” person (former anger/frustration issues, difficulty not having anger when obviously the provider is using bait and switch, etc. - but I’m no way near Steve Ballmer’s flying chair). I’ll have to learn to be a manager outside the framework of a large company with established practices. For the moment I’ve been lucky that I’ve met only growth and I could make everyone happy. What books, courses or experiences would you recommend to learn how to become a proper manager over the next year? Setting objectives, KPIs, leading individuals, MBTI, setting values for the company, what topics should I learn (apart from Scrum, which we’re proficient at) and what is an efficient way to do it?
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