First Time Engineering Manager
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First Time Engineering Manager
2 Weeks
·Cohort-based Course
You are aspiring or first-time manager. Learn how to jumpstart career and master the skills to become a successful engineering manager.
Hosted by
Sumeet Gala
Startup Founder | Mentor & Career Coach | Ex-Adobe, Ex-Yahoo
Course overview
Becoming an Engineering Manager
Becoming manager is hard. Surviving as manager is even harder.
85% receive no training prior to switching into the role of manager.
First time managers rarely receive the guidance and training they need to be effective.
Prepare your self for first 1000 days (not just first 90 days.)
Learn structured framework that has helped 100+ individuals, jumpstart your career and master the skills required to become a successful Engineering Manager.
Who is this course for
01
First time engineering manager
You are new in this role.
02
Individual contributor
You are tech lead, scrum lead and want to get into management.
03
Startup Founder
As a first time people manager, you want to manage and motivate team.
What You'll Get Out Of This Course
Know your why
Evaluate your personal anchors and decision on becoming a manager. Evaluate if it is the right path for you.
Day to day situation
Develop and master the skills required to manage day to day situations like giving constructive feedback, working with variety of personalities, resolving conflicts, etc.
No perfect team
Understand what are different team dysfunctions and how to manage and fix them.
Motivate
Navigate through difficult work situations while keeping your team motivated like when company is not doing good
Manage
Learn on how to lead effectively in different team composition like managing remote team, managing matrix team, managing geographically distributed team.
What people are saying
Kaushal Patel
Zhensu Yang
Abhay Singh
Harini Jagannathan
Meet your instructor
Sumeet Gala
Startup Founder | Mentor & Career Coach | Ex-Adobe, Ex-Yahoo
Sumeet is startup founder in Silicon valley. Before his startup, he was senior engineering manager in Adobe and Yahoo.
Sumeet has coached and mentored 500+ software professionals, engineering managers and engineering leaders. This course is on his extensive experience with that coaching as well as his own career journey.
Over 17+ years of experience as technology and product leader, Sumeet has managed and scaled engineering teams at Yahoo and Adobe. He has spend time working in Bangalore and SF Bay Area. He has managed cross functional teams and geographically distributed team.
Sumeet has spent most of his time in the field of search, marketplace, consumer and enterprise products with technical and domain expertise in AI / ML / Search. He has helped build and scale products to millions of users and for $300 millions+ in revenue.
Join an upcoming cohort
First Time Engineering Manager
Cohort 1
$499 USD
Dates
July 11 - 18, 2023
Payment Deadline
July 11, 2023
Course syllabus
01
Know your why?
Understand your personal anchors on why you want to get into management.
02
Define success
Definition of success varies individual to individual. Identify and crystalize your success criteria for engineering management.
03
Day-to-day situations
Understand what different day-to-day situations manager encounter and how to deal with them.
04
Personal framework
Develop your personal framework to handle day-to-day situations.
05
Team dysfunctions
99% of time, there is no perfect team. Understand common dysfunctions of team and how to deal with them.
06
Group exercise (Day-to-day situation)
Group exercise and discussion based on role based real life situation.
07
Team management
Deep dive into different team management situations. (e.g. managing remote team, managing matrix team).
08
Framework for team management
Develop unique strategies and framework to handle particular team management situation.
09
Group exercise (Team management)
Group exercise and discussion based on different team management situation.
10
Managing 360
Deep dive into how to manage up, manage and work with stakeholders and peers.
Course schedule
About 7-8 hours total
Tuesday, Jul 11
12 pm - 2 pm PST
Live workshop with group exercise and working session.
Friday, Jul 14
12 pm - 2 pm PST
Live workshop with group exercise and working session.
Tuesday, Jul 18
12 pm - 2pm PST
Live workshop with group exercise and working session.
Join live, rewatch anytime
Every session will be recorded, so you can watch it again if you have to miss one, or just want a refresh on the material.
Learning is better with cohorts
Active, not passive
Every aspect of this course is live. Sumeet will spend 7+ hours with you during this course, sharing in-depth experience, strategies and frameworks.
Interactive and project-based
Every exercise during the course is thoughtfully crafted to help you make tremendous progress towards your own career plan, both immediate and longer-term.
You will have your framework, strategies designed by you for you to be successful.
You will have clarity and mental framework to navigate your career as engineering manager and what make sense for your long term career.
Learn with a cohort of peers
Surround yourself with like-minded people who want to grow alongside you
You will get to know and interact with an exceptional cohort of your peers. Some of those connection you will make, will be long term connection.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can I expense cost of this course?
What happens if I can’t make a live session?
I work full-time, what is the expected time commitment?
How is this different than reading management books, blogs?
What’s the refund policy?
Join an upcoming cohort
First Time Engineering Manager
Cohort 1
$499 USD
Dates
July 11 - 18, 2023
Payment Deadline
July 11, 2023