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đź•ą Influence, Communities of Practice, Resigning, Uncertainty, Learning Culture, DevEx, Platforms, Active Listening: TMW #335

Hello there!

A huge, huge thank you to everyone who pre-registered for the Campus Alpha Launch - we're very nearly ready, and we'll be reaching out to each of you to get you enrolled and start gathering your feedback in the next few weeks.

Something new that we're adding to Campus is a library of CTO Stories, very quick insights from successful technology leaders about a lesson they've learned and a mistake they've made:

The plan is to keep adding to the library of Stories - if you have a lesson or a mistake you'd like to talk about, drop us a line!

The next major step in the implementation of Campus is the creation of some courses. We have a handful of subject areas in mind, including Building Executive Presence, Budget Management and Vendor Management, but we'd really like to hear from you - what topics would you like to see us create courses around? Drop me a reply with your ideas!

Pre-register for the Campus Alpha Launch here

On Friday, I'll be hosting a town hall Q&A on Slack, which will cover Campus progress, events, the community itself and more. If you're a Slack member (and if not, why not?) please do jump in and ask me some questions!

See you next week!

Andy @ CTO Craft

CTO Craft Bytes - Slack Q&A with Andy Skipper
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Reads of the Week

Questionable Advice: “How can I drive change and influence teams…without power?”
Last month I got to attend GOTO Chicago and give a talk about continuous deployment and high-performing teams. Honestly I did a terrible job, and I’m not being modest. I had just rolled off a…
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From our Sponsors

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Leadership, Strategy & Business

How To Avoid Fire-Drill Leadership To Build Your Leadership Effectiveness – Scott Cochrane
Scott Cochrane A Leader's JourneyScott Cochrane
Leaders Tackle Challenges Early
They are responsible for proactively monitoring the early-warning risk radar… and avoiding the impacts from when a risk becomes a crisis.
Management MattersRay Carnes
Quitting as a manager: how to resign from a management role
Knowing when to resign from a leadership position is a difficult question. Knowing how to resign from a management position is even harder. We’ll show you how.
Lighthouse - Blog About Leadership & Management AdviceJason Evanish
Treating uncertainty as a first-class concern
One of the things that complex incidents have in common is the uncertainty that the responders experience while the incident is happening. Something is clearly wrong, that’s why an incident i…
Surfing ComplexityLorin Hochstein

Culture, People & Teams

Teamwork Stopped Working When A New Colleague Joined
Communication and feedback help teams work better.
Management MattersIvona Hirschi
Build a Strong Learning Culture on Your Team
With the nature of work changing so rapidly, it’s no longer enough just to offer employees opportunities for upskilling and reskilling. Companies also need to help workers become “expert learners” — and a key way of doing that, the learning-and-development expert James McKenna writes, is to follow t…
Harvard Business ReviewJames McKenna
How To Get Buy-in for DevEx Initiatives: Strategies From GitHub, Notion, and More
Opportunities to improve DevEx may seem obvious, yet getting executive buy-in can be difficult. Here, leaders at GitHub, Notion, and Etsy describe how to successfully get buy-in.
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How can you make feedback conversations less painful?
Many of us dread feedback conversations. Whether we’re giving feedback or receiving feedback, just the idea of the discussion creates…
Management MattersAmanda Swim
The Surprising Benefits Of Conflict In The Workplace | David Burkus
In this article, we will explore four surprising benefits of conflict in the workplace. And we’ll discuss how leaders can create a safe space for sharing diverse perspectives and model respectful debate to leverage the benefits of conflict.
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Technology, Operations & Delivery

Coaching in Times of Deep Organizational Change · Illustrated Agile
When an organization makes an announcement that they are letting people go, how should an organizational change coach respond?
Illustrated AgileLen Lagestee
My Approach to Building Large Technical Projects
Mitchell Hashimoto
208. Ultimate Guide to Platforms
Patterns and Practices in the Creation, Rise, and Fall of Platforms
Hardcore Software by Steven SinofskySteven Sinofsky
How we fixed our on call process to avoid engineer burnout
Ensuring that Intercom has great uptime requires a rapid response when things go wrong. This is how we developed an effective, sustainable on-call engineering process.
The Intercom BlogBrian Scanlan

Stress, Wellbeing & Growth

Personal Development Made Practical — The Busy Leader’s Guide to Carving Out Time and Knowing Where to Start
Building better teams and companies starts with working on yourself. But for startup leaders, making time for personal development is usually last on the list. Here’s a collection of tactical tips from the Review archives for getting started.
First Round Review
Become a better facilitator with 5 tips for improving your active listening skills
The ability to be an active listener is pretty much a non-negotiable for facilitators, but that doesn’t mean the skill comes naturally to…
MediumJackie Colburn
Insights Into Stress Anxiety And Depression For Team Leaders
Stress, anxiety and depression are complex mental health conditions that can have significant impacts on individuals’ lives
People Development MagazineChristina Lattimer
Workplace stress is killing us. Here’s what to do about it.
Within a year and a half of starting my first job, I had burned out. It was a crisis of self-care, as much as anything: I’d been working…
MediumEmma Violet Makinson

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Andy

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