Leadership Essentials for Engineering Managers

What you will learn

• Set clear expectations for role, delivery, and collaboration
• Run 1:1s that develop people and surface risks early
• Prioritize work without burning the team out
• Give feedback that is specific and actionable
• Partner with product on trade-offs without losing engineering integrity

About this course

Moving from individual contributor to manager changes the unit of work. This course covers the first six months of EM practice: expectations, 1:1s, prioritization, feedback, and working with product partners. Lessons stay concrete. You will draft role expectations, plan a week of leadership time, and practice conversations that reduce ambiguity for your team. The curriculum avoids management theater and focuses on habits that compound. Use this course as a shared language for EM cohorts or as a self-paced onboarding path for first-time managers.

Who it is for

• New engineering managers
• Tech leads moving into people leadership
• Directors onboarding first-time EMs