Team management and Soft skills

Topics:

• Task delegation - what can be and what can’t be delegated;

• Motivation techniques;

• Deal with arguing junior dev who don’t want to make boring tasks;

• Deal with low employee performance;

• Time management techniques;

• Onboarding process and it goals. Best practices of onboarding for newcomers;

• On-boarding documentation - description of the project, architecture, modules, not obvious solutions, installation process, CI/CD pipelines, branching strategies, environment(s), description of how to contribute and how to use the project;

• How to handle conflicts inside the team;

• How to develop and mentor other team members;

• How to decompose and assign tasks and how to manage situations when less senior teammates want to get more and more complex tasks (i.e. assign a part of the task, control execution, create a separate task to get acquainted with a new technology);

• How do you interview candidate and define level;

• Own recent failure and the way it was managed/handled;

• Negotiations techniques;

• Effective meetings techniques (agenda, timeframe, discussion management, mfu).

Materials:

• Leadership: Practical Skills by Chris Croft

• Eisenhower's Urgent/Important Principle

• Pomodoro Technique

• Resolve team conflict

• HOW TO RESOLVE CONFLICTS INSIDE A TEAM

• How to Handle Conflict in the Workplace

• 7 Delegation Mistakes That Can Kill Effective Teamwork

• How to Delegate Effectively in Software Development Teams

• 15 Effective Ways to Deal with an Underperforming Employee

• 5 smart ways to deal with low performers

• HOW TO MAINTAIN TEAM MORALE HIGH

• Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs