Geeks Who Lead Podcast
Hear the inside stories of the "geeks who lead at scale" - Directors, VPs and CTOs running software engineering orgs at larger companies with 100+ engineers, and interviews with domain experts who can help those leaders to manage their engineering orgs more effectively.
I'm your host - Peter Bell, I've been helping senior engineering leaders to connect with and learn from their peers since 2010!
This podcast is designed for engineering leaders who want to learn the latest good practices from their peers who are way too busy operating to write an article or publish a book!
Running a software engineering org at scale is hard! You need to manage stakeholder expectations, attract and retain top talent, align and structure your org effectively and keep up with the latest processes and tooling. And that's before we even try to make sense of the potential impact of LLMs and GenAI on managing technical teams.
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Geeks Who Lead Podcast
Giving Effective Feedback with Chelsea Troy
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Feedback is an integral part of work performance across all industries. Effective feedback can help an employee improve at a job or skill. But at the end of the day, feedback is universally dicey. Emotions can run high and people can take feedback too hard. Chelsea Troy, an engineering consultant at RigorWorks, has given talks on her guidelines for effective feedback. Today, she joins Peter to offer a rundown of her process.
Chelsea explains how feedback can go awry, what the best methods are for giving feedback, and offers tips on how to handle negative feedback directed at you. This episode has practical advice no matter your industry.
- [00:26] - What does Chelsea do as an engineering consultant?
- [02:30] - Foundation practices when going into a new org
- [05:07] - Facilitating getting help
- [07:01] - Where documentation should live
- [13:07] - Giving and receiving feedback
- [18:28] - Why bother with feedback?
- [19:34] - Mitigating the risk
- [23:46] - Soliciting feedback
- [32:22] - When feedback feels bad
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