From Engineer to Technical Manager: A Survival Guide
What you'll learn
- Thrive in your transition from individual contributor to manager or team lead
- Avoid common pitfalls of engineers moving into management
- Optimize the morale and productivity of your new team
- How to recruit the best people to your team
- Best practices for letting someone go
- Building productive relationships with senior management
- Effective time management - how to handle all those new meetings and messages
Requirements
- All you need is some familiarity with the professional world.
Description
Hey, you got promoted to manager! Congratulations! But... moving from an individual contributor role to a managerial one is more challenging than any engineering problem you may have faced. Managing people is a lot different from managing machines!
I'm Frank Kane, and I'm here to help you through it. I made the transition from software engineer, to manager, and ultimately senior manager at Amazon's headquarters in Seattle. And I did it while maintaining the highest review ratings and low team turnover in a very challenging environment. There's a lot about management I had to learn the hard way, but I'm going to share those tips for success - with you - in this course.
At this end of this course, you'll be driving results with your team that are much bigger than what you could have achieved yourself. And you'll know the most common pitfalls for new technical managers, and how to avoid them. In short, you'll be set up for success as you move from managing machines to managing people.
This course covers:
The most important survival tips for new managers
How to deliver results from your new team
The basics of people management nobody taught you
Hiring the best people for your team, and letting go of those who are holding your team back.
Working effectively with upper management
How to build and maintain morale on your team to keep it productive
Tips on growing your own career in management over time
I designed this course for engineers or technicians moving into their first management role, but early-career managers will also benefit from these tips. Or, maybe you're just considering making the move from individual contributor to manager, and want to know what you're getting into - this course can help with that, too.
This course is full of practical tips and activities; we don't mince words or waste time on empty business-speak. Choose to maximize your chance of becoming a great manager - enroll now, or check out the free preview lectures to see if this course is for you.
This course was created by an experienced human - no generative AI or ChatGPT was used to generate its content.
Who this course is for:
- Newly minted technical managers
- Engineers considering a move into management
- Early-career managers looking to improve their management and their teams
Instructors
- 4.6 Instructor Rating
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- 1,009,258 Students
- 36 Courses
Sundog Education's mission is to make highly valuable career skills in data engineering, data science, generative AI, AWS, and machine learning accessible to everyone in the world. Our consortium of expert instructors shares our knowledge in these emerging fields with you, at prices anyone can afford.
Sundog Education is led by Frank Kane and owned by Frank's company, Sundog Software LLC. Frank spent 9 years at Amazon and IMDb, developing and managing the technology that automatically delivers product and movie recommendations to hundreds of millions of customers, all the time. As an Amazon “bar raiser,” he held veto authority over hiring decisions across the company, interviewed over 1,000 candidates, and hired and managed hundreds. He holds 26 issued patents in the fields of distributed computing, data mining, and machine learning. In 2012, Frank left to start his own company, Sundog Software, which has taught over one million students around the world about machine learning, data engineering, and managing engineers.
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Frank spent 9 years at Amazon and IMDb, developing and managing the technology that automatically delivers product and movie recommendations to hundreds of millions of customers, all the time. As an Amazon “bar raiser,” he held veto authority over hiring decisions across the company, interviewed over 1,000 candidates, and hired and managed hundreds. He holds 17 issued patents in the fields of distributed computing, data mining, and machine learning. In 2012, Frank left to start his own company, Sundog Software, which has taught over one million students around the world about machine learning, data engineering, and managing engineers.
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Our mission is to make highly valuable skills in machine learning, big data, AI, and data science accessible at prices anyone in the world can afford. Our current online courses have reached over 500,000 students worldwide. Sundog Education CEO, Frank Kane, spent 9 years at Amazon and IMDb, developing and managing the technology that automatically delivers product and movie recommendations to hundreds of millions of customers, all the time. Frank holds 17 issued patents in the fields of distributed computing, data mining, and machine learning. In 2012, Frank left to start his own successful company, Sundog Software, which focuses on virtual reality environment technology and teaching others about big data analysis.