Session summary

If you look for resources on how to develop your engineers, the skill that’s most often talked about is probably mentoring; but studies have shown that often, mentoring doesn’t help to progress people in the way that we hope.

But there are ways that you can move beyond mentoring to effectively help people grow: use coaching to help them consider their own experiences and analyse their challenges, provide growth opportunities through sponsorship, and provide feedback that works effectively for your team.

You’ll come to this session with an interest in developing your team and leave with:

• An understanding of the difference between mentoring, coaching, and sponsorship
• An introduction to the fundamentals of active listening and how to be a good coach
• An overview of sponsorship, how it can help underrepresented leaders, and how to do it well
• A framework for providing actionable, equitable, effective feedback