Developer to Manager: A Survival Guide

Kat Kuhl

Good work leads to promotions -- and promotions from development to management come with more than increases in responsibility. While they're often awarded based on mastery of one skill set, they require you to learn a whole new one. Plus, the methods you've previously used for learning new skills might fail you -- this learning curve would be a lot easier if you could google "drush commands for management" until you found some results.

During this session, I'll talk about adjusting from life as a developer to life as a manager, including:

Transitioning from communicating like a team member to communication like a team leader
Understanding key leadership styles and how to use them
Giving performance feedback that goes beyond code reviews
Giving room to make mistakes (while mitigating the big risks)
This session is targeted toward new managers and developers considering management, presented by a manager who made the leap.

https://www.drupalgovcon.org/2018/program/sessions/developer-manager-survival-guide

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