Preparing your team for change
During their work and communications, engineering managers have the opportunity to prepare for future change before it comes along. First, you need to prepare yourself for uncertainty and change. Next, you must work on developing the right team emergent states to form a resilient culture on your team. Finally, you must introduce practices and processes to create resilient habits. Let’s go through each of these.
Managing yourself
When you think about preparing your team for future change, it can be easy to forget that you are a part of that team and must prepare yourself. Good engineering managers often think about their team’s needs before their own, but since change connects us with deep emotions that are not always obvious, we must take measures to manage and care for ourselves so that we can effectively provide for our teams. To begin, let’s review some ways in which we can deliberately increase our resilience.