Description
Provides strategic support to engineers to help them build the career they want
Personal and professional growth are very important to us, and to support this, we need our group leads to be aligned with group members on the importance of career development. We want our group leads to be intentionally working to support an engineer’s growth, whether by putting together career plans, finding new opportunities for them, or providing formal training.
Milestone 1
(adds 1 mile to your journey)
Gives insight into opportunities and helps identify individuals' strengths and weaknesses
| Examples | |
|---|---|
| Advocates on behalf and in defense of a group member | Collected and delivered feedback |
| Shares opportunities for improvements and recognises achievements | Discussed career options and areas of interest informally |
| Explains appropriate available industry paths | Hosted a Floodgate Academy intern |
Milestone 2
(adds 3 miles to your journey)
Formally supports and advocates for one person and provides tools to help them solve career problems
| Examples | |
|---|---|
| Ensure a group member has an appropriate role on their team | Set up and attended regular, constructive 1:1s |
| Offers effective career advice to group members, without being prescriptive | Provided coaching on how to have difficult conversations |
| Creates space for people to talk through challenges | Taught group members the GROW model |
Milestone 3
(adds 6 miles to your journey)
Inspires and retains a small group of people and actively pushes them to stretch themselves
| Examples | |
|---|---|
| Discusses paths, and creates plans for personal and professional growth | Reviewed individual group member progression every 6 weeks |
| Advocates to align people with appropriate roles within organization | Suggested appropriate group member for Tech Lead position |
| Works with team leads to elevate emerging leaders | Arranged a requested switch of discipline for a group member |
Milestone 4
(adds 12 miles to your journey)
Manages interactions and processes between groups, promoting best practices and setting a positive example
| Examples | |
|---|---|
| Manages team transitions smoothly, respecting team and individual needs | Completed training on situational leadership |
| Develops best practices for conflict resolution | Built a resourcing plan based on company, team, and individual goals |
| Ensures all group members' roles are meeting their career needs | Prevented regretted attrition with intentional, targeted intervention |
Milestone 5
(adds 20 miles to your journey)
Supports the development of a signficant part of the engineering org, and widely viewed as a trusted advisor
| Examples | |
|---|---|
| Supports and develops senior leaders | Provided coaching to group leads |
| Identified leadership training opportunities for senior leadership | Devised Pathwise curriculum for group leads |
| Pushes everyone to be as good as they can be, with empathy | Advocated to execs for engineer development resources and programs |
Configuration Health
- ✅ Associated with 1 role
- ⚠️ Has been referenced in no observations
- ℹ️ No one has achieved a milestone on this ability
- ⛔️ Last updated: almost 5 years ago
- ℹ️ Never conversed about
Role & Position Requirements
- Supportersmust be milestone 1+
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