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What you can expect in the next two weeks
It’s going to be a busy few weeks. I have received many direct DMs lately. Thank you all for reaching out. I’d like to increase both the reach and transparency of ours communications in the future.
As our next stage I’d like to invite you all into a more public space. Following this week I am introducing a few recurring themes with varying degrees of commitment that you can partake in: book club, live stream, live katas, podcast and paid slack. These will cover topics about engineering craft mastery—how to excel in teamwork, engineering management plus leadership and personal growth. Keep reading if you think have something to gain from this.
🤔 Which on are you excited about the most?
Live Streams on Thursdays
Following last week’s pilot episode I will continue having at least 1 hour of public time on LinkedIn and Youtube. You can come chat with me, ask questions. In absence of any questions we’ll do a Kata or go through the most popular tech discussions on LinkedIn that were within my network.
You can help by sending me questions—or if you prefer to be uninvolved personally, send me discussion threads or youtube videos that you think I should review and discuss.
Book Club - Psychological Safety
The Book Club will be hosting a combination of life coaching and engineering management and leadership topics. To kick it off it we will start every book club challenge with a quick refresh on speedreading, then tackle the main book of choice. To keep it practical We’ll start off with 3 weeks per book with a short break, aiming to do 4-5 books till the end of the year.
The first book we’ll start with in August is the book The Fearless Organization by Amy Edmondson. You’ll have to get the book yourself, but I will be hosting a room on my slack for everyone involved. For those members that are paid community members we will also have a closed-circle Zoom call on the book itself, including the kick-off call on a first come first serve basis to keep it intimate. Spots will be limited.
If you want to join, send me the word FEARLESS by replying to this email or DM on LinkedIn.
If you’ve been struggling with deadly silences in your team this is for you! If you’re looking to improve your leadership skills or want to take your engineering management job to the next level, carefully consider whether you want to miss out on this. Will you read the book on your own?
Or will you chose to be FEARLESS.
Paid Slack Community
For those of you that have worked with me before you know I host a private Slack community for everyone that has ever hired me and wants to remain in touch for questions or discussions. I’ll be upgrading that community and make it available (and automated) for the Paid Subscribers on Substack as well as part of the Pro group.
This also goes for Pledges on Substack and Coaching clients I have worked with on MentorCruise.
No-Nonsense TDD Booklet and Coaching
Revision three of the booklet will make its way into your inbox if you’ve purchased any of the previous ones before. I’ll be revising and updating it for late-2023 and make sure the content continues to be relevant with new examples.
On the Coaching side I’ll be launching a 6month Life Coaching Cohort to SMASH your limiting beliefs and get you off of the fake-it-till-you-realise-you-are-faking-it treadmill. This program is called the Elite Mentorship Forum (EMF) and you’ll be joining a community of rockstars after you graduate. This will be announced later in August, launching in mid-November. There are VIP tickets if you want to do it 1on1 with me personally, and places will be limited to 20 for the cohort one.
If you want to be on the waiting list to make sure you don’t miss it DM me or reply with the word EMF.
Stay tuned for more updates on this!