How to turn IT team players into leaders

摘要： To help develop team players into team leaders, you need to focus on three values: Transparency, responsibility, and empathy

Fostering leadership potential is critical for the health of any company, but it isn’t always prioritized at technology organizations, thanks to intense competition and high turnover. The irony is that if cultivating leadership skills within engineering teams were given more priority, companies could improve job satisfaction, boost employee retention, and increase overall company productivity.

As an engineer and now CTO of Remote, a 100 percent remote startup, I’ve seen typical career plans outlining the job roles, skills, and projects that signal an engineer is ready to move up to the next rung. These roadmaps, however, can be deeply problematic – because they are often prescriptive and encourage a templatized, “cheat sheet” approach rather than feeding into one’s passions to improve their leadership skills.

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