Growth
Personal Growth in Career
Notes
- One-on-one: Regular meetings with seniors aiming for better growth
- Brag doc: Write a doc listing your accomplishments
Links
- Own Your One-on-One Meeting | Mediations with Candost
- Change the perspective: focus on personal and professional growth rather than project status updates
- Bidirectional communication: collect feedback, ask for opinions and share perspectives → build trust
- Preparation: gather small notes over the week, write down goals and topics
- Feedback: seek feedback, focus on the contribution and how to improve. Accept failures and seek opportunities to learn
- Give feedback as well (managers usually don't get positive feedback)
- One-on-One Meeting Template | Mediations with Candost
- Document: both write into the same doc, both sides can contribute, and focus on issues and growth, not status updates
- Things we should talk about: the agenda, no surprises, keep it brief
- Things that went well: show gratitude and identify achievements
- Learnings: write down the top learnings over the week
- Feedback: assess work, collaboration, well-being and job satisfaction. Both managers and engineers need feedback
- Others: challenges & blockers, priorities until we meet again, action items
- Get your work recognized: write a brag document
(with a template)
- Some kinds of work are more visible/memorable, but some aren't
- You don't remember everything you did, especially in terms of months, neither your manager does
- Brag doc: write a doc listing your accomplishments and share it with your manager and peer reviewers
- Explain the big picture: what section of the business have you been focusing on, especially on fuzzy stuff like improving the quality of something, e.g. "improving the developer experience"
- This is not your last job
- Not just growth within the company but also personal growth and learnings
- Stay in touch with the market, learn new technologies