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HOW TO ORGANIZE A WORKING GROUP Site • Book • Blog • Twitter How to Organize a Working Group. Originally posted Mar 25, 2018. I’ve been running a lot of working groups as part of my consulting practice, leveling up product and engineering organizations. “Working groups” is a hand-wavy term that can mean a lot of things; I use this term to describe a small group of people who come together with a common goal FAIRNESS AND MANAGEMENT Site • Book • Blog • Twitter Fairness and management. This post originally appeared in my newsletter. Subscribe to receive it!. I’ve been thinking a ton about fairness since I came across this HBR article: “Research: When Managers Are Overworked, They Treat Employees Less Fairly” “To be judged as fair by employees, bosses have to attend to four aspects of fairness: First, they ROLEPLAYING DIFFICULT CONVERSATIONS Hold a “difficult conversations showcase”. Grab a conference room for an hour and invite all the managers in your organization. Ask six folks to practice giving/receiving feedback at the front of the room, so that the rest of the managers can see different styles andapproaches to
HOW TO FACILITATE A WORKING GROUP MEETING Site • Book • Blog • Twitter How to Facilitate a Working Group Meeting. Originally posted Mar 26, 2018. This is where the magic happens. After you’ve laid all the ground work for organizing a working group (define ground rules, choose and invite attendees, plan your agenda arc, and communicate broadly), here’s what to do when you finally get your participants in the room together. A TINY, POWERFUL QUESTION FOR BETTER FEEDBACK Site • Book • Blog • Twitter A Tiny, Powerful Question for Better Feedback. Originally posted Apr 21, 2019. This post originally appeard on the 11:11 Supply Nerd Out Blog. Giving feedback is hard.Most of us avoid giving routine feedback to our friends, partners, coworkers; the act of giving someone clear feedback can feel really heavy and intense. EASY CHECK-IN QUESTIONS FOR YOUR 1:1S DURING TIMES OF Site • Book • Blog • Twitter Easy check-in questions for your 1:1s during times of crisis. This post originally appeared in my newsletter. Subscribe to receive it!. Here are the questions I’ve been asking in coaching calls with managers and individual contributors alike, to get a gut check on how folks are feeling during this awful, strange season—without making the conversation too IS MANAGING UP A BAD THING? Here’s mine: managing up is about routinely iterating on and improving your relationship with a person who has more power than you do. That includes asking for help, giving feedback, and setting (and resetting) shared expectations. There is a TON of content to cover here, so I’m going to make this a two-part series. In this one, Italk about:
WHEN YOUR MANAGER ISN'T SUPPORTING YOU, BUILD A VOLTRON When your manager isn't supporting you, build a Voltron. Originally posted Jan 4, 2018. In my years of coaching managers and individual contributors, I’ve routinely heard the following complaints about their bosses: “My manager isn’t giving me any feedback.”. “My RESILIENT MANAGEMENT WORKSHEETS Pushes me out of my comfort zone Has more experience than I do Routinely delegates stretch projects Other: Works in a different field/discipline Has excellent MANAGEMENT COACH & TRAINER FOR THE TECH INDUSTRY Resilient Management. Finding your bearings as a manager can feel overwhelming—but you don’t have to fake it to make it, and you don’t have to go it alone. Lara Hogan shares her recipe for supporting and leading a tech team—from developing your mentoring and coaching skills, to getting comfortable with having difficultconversations, to
HOW TO ORGANIZE A WORKING GROUP Site • Book • Blog • Twitter How to Organize a Working Group. Originally posted Mar 25, 2018. I’ve been running a lot of working groups as part of my consulting practice, leveling up product and engineering organizations. “Working groups” is a hand-wavy term that can mean a lot of things; I use this term to describe a small group of people who come together with a common goal FAIRNESS AND MANAGEMENT Site • Book • Blog • Twitter Fairness and management. This post originally appeared in my newsletter. Subscribe to receive it!. I’ve been thinking a ton about fairness since I came across this HBR article: “Research: When Managers Are Overworked, They Treat Employees Less Fairly” “To be judged as fair by employees, bosses have to attend to four aspects of fairness: First, they ROLEPLAYING DIFFICULT CONVERSATIONS Hold a “difficult conversations showcase”. Grab a conference room for an hour and invite all the managers in your organization. Ask six folks to practice giving/receiving feedback at the front of the room, so that the rest of the managers can see different styles andapproaches to
HOW TO FACILITATE A WORKING GROUP MEETING Site • Book • Blog • Twitter How to Facilitate a Working Group Meeting. Originally posted Mar 26, 2018. This is where the magic happens. After you’ve laid all the ground work for organizing a working group (define ground rules, choose and invite attendees, plan your agenda arc, and communicate broadly), here’s what to do when you finally get your participants in the room together. A TINY, POWERFUL QUESTION FOR BETTER FEEDBACK Site • Book • Blog • Twitter A Tiny, Powerful Question for Better Feedback. Originally posted Apr 21, 2019. This post originally appeard on the 11:11 Supply Nerd Out Blog. Giving feedback is hard.Most of us avoid giving routine feedback to our friends, partners, coworkers; the act of giving someone clear feedback can feel really heavy and intense. EASY CHECK-IN QUESTIONS FOR YOUR 1:1S DURING TIMES OF Site • Book • Blog • Twitter Easy check-in questions for your 1:1s during times of crisis. This post originally appeared in my newsletter. Subscribe to receive it!. Here are the questions I’ve been asking in coaching calls with managers and individual contributors alike, to get a gut check on how folks are feeling during this awful, strange season—without making the conversation too IS MANAGING UP A BAD THING? Here’s mine: managing up is about routinely iterating on and improving your relationship with a person who has more power than you do. That includes asking for help, giving feedback, and setting (and resetting) shared expectations. There is a TON of content to cover here, so I’m going to make this a two-part series. In this one, Italk about:
WHEN YOUR MANAGER ISN'T SUPPORTING YOU, BUILD A VOLTRON When your manager isn't supporting you, build a Voltron. Originally posted Jan 4, 2018. In my years of coaching managers and individual contributors, I’ve routinely heard the following complaints about their bosses: “My manager isn’t giving me any feedback.”. “My RESILIENT MANAGEMENT WORKSHEETS Pushes me out of my comfort zone Has more experience than I do Routinely delegates stretch projects Other: Works in a different field/discipline Has excellent MANAGEMENT | LARA HOGAN Holding Balanced One on Ones worksheet. It’s helpful to walk into your 1:1s with a game plan to build trust, help your direct report grow, and tackle some problems together. To do that, it’s important to find a balance between the three main hats you can wear as a manager: mentoring, coaching, and sponsoring. A TINY, POWERFUL QUESTION FOR BETTER FEEDBACK Site • Book • Blog • Twitter A Tiny, Powerful Question for Better Feedback. Originally posted Apr 21, 2019. This post originally appeard on the 11:11 Supply Nerd Out Blog. Giving feedback is hard.Most of us avoid giving routine feedback to our friends, partners, coworkers; the act of giving someone clear feedback can feel really heavy and intense. IS MANAGING UP A BAD THING? Here’s mine: managing up is about routinely iterating on and improving your relationship with a person who has more power than you do. That includes asking for help, giving feedback, and setting (and resetting) shared expectations. There is a TON of content to cover here, so I’m going to make this a two-part series. In this one, Italk about:
HOW TO OFFER CHALLENGES TO YOUR TEAMMATES Check out my new Dealing With Surprising Human Emotions video course to learn your teammates'—and your own—core needs at work.. Lara Hogan: Site • Book • Blog • Twitter How to offer challenges to your teammates. This post originally appeared in my newsletter. Subscribe to receive it!. Think about when a manager’s helped skyrocket your growth—what did they do?CODING A BOOK
I’ve done a lot of writing in the past few years, all on a Mac, and mostly in Sublime Text. I publish this site using Jekyll + GitHub Pages, so it’s easy for me to write blog posts and whatever with Markdown files. But when it comes to writing books, the options get a little interesting; there’s not much out there that feels as safe as an author might want to feel when writing. UPDATED: WORK AT DIFFERENT MANAGEMENT LEVELS In 2016, I published a blog post titled “ Work at different management levels ”, which was about how my work drastically changed over time as a manager, whether it was because of my team’s growth, my own growth, or the company’s growth. What I did day-to-day changed, what was hard about it changed, and how I measured my ownsuccess changed.
MANAGER HANDOFFS
The 1:1:1. One of the managers should start by restating the goals (transparent handoff of career and manager info, an opportunity for the direct report to clarify and even disagree with what’s said, and reduced changes to the direct report’s career momentum). After the restating of goals, the former manager should share their context WHAT DOES SPONSORSHIP LOOK LIKE? Site • Book • Blog • Twitter What does sponsorship look like? Originally posted May 14, 2017. Illustration by Catt Small. Studies have shown that women (and nonbinary folks) are over-mentored, but under-sponsored.As Herminia Ibarra, professor of organizational behavior at INSEAD and coauthor of the HBR article Why Men Still Get More Promotions Than Women explains, RESILIENT MANAGEMENT WORKSHEETS Pushes me out of my comfort zone Has more experience than I do Routinely delegates stretch projects Other: Works in a different field/discipline Has excellent DEALING WITH SURPRISING HUMAN EMOTIONS: DESK MOVES Dealing with surprising human emotions is one of the most challenging aspects of being a manager. Generally, when someone appears triggered, or angry, or some other strong emotion that’s surprising, it’s likely that their amygdala has been hijacked, which I’ve written about before. Our amygdalas are in charge of our emotional reactions, and they’re critical to our “fight or flight MANAGEMENT COACH & TRAINER FOR THE TECH INDUSTRY Resilient Management. Finding your bearings as a manager can feel overwhelming—but you don’t have to fake it to make it, and you don’t have to go it alone. Lara Hogan shares her recipe for supporting and leading a tech team—from developing your mentoring and coaching skills, to getting comfortable with having difficultconversations, to
HOW TO ORGANIZE A WORKING GROUP Site • Book • Blog • Twitter How to Organize a Working Group. Originally posted Mar 25, 2018. I’ve been running a lot of working groups as part of my consulting practice, leveling up product and engineering organizations. “Working groups” is a hand-wavy term that can mean a lot of things; I use this term to describe a small group of people who come together with a common goal ROLEPLAYING DIFFICULT CONVERSATIONS Hold a “difficult conversations showcase”. Grab a conference room for an hour and invite all the managers in your organization. Ask six folks to practice giving/receiving feedback at the front of the room, so that the rest of the managers can see different styles andapproaches to
FAIRNESS AND MANAGEMENT Site • Book • Blog • Twitter Fairness and management. This post originally appeared in my newsletter. Subscribe to receive it!. I’ve been thinking a ton about fairness since I came across this HBR article: “Research: When Managers Are Overworked, They Treat Employees Less Fairly” “To be judged as fair by employees, bosses have to attend to four aspects of fairness: First, they A TINY, POWERFUL QUESTION FOR BETTER FEEDBACK Site • Book • Blog • Twitter A Tiny, Powerful Question for Better Feedback. Originally posted Apr 21, 2019. This post originally appeard on the 11:11 Supply Nerd Out Blog. Giving feedback is hard.Most of us avoid giving routine feedback to our friends, partners, coworkers; the act of giving someone clear feedback can feel really heavy and intense. HOW TO SAY NO RIGHT NOW My goal is to help make it feel a bit easier to say “no” right now so you can get a bit more breathing room (and have space to say “yes” to the right things). We’re going to follow these steps: Identify the #1 thing you are optimizing for through the end of the year. Run any decision past that #1 HOW TO FACILITATE A WORKING GROUP MEETING Site • Book • Blog • Twitter How to Facilitate a Working Group Meeting. Originally posted Mar 26, 2018. This is where the magic happens. After you’ve laid all the ground work for organizing a working group (define ground rules, choose and invite attendees, plan your agenda arc, and communicate broadly), here’s what to do when you finally get your participants in the room together. EASY CHECK-IN QUESTIONS FOR YOUR 1:1S DURING TIMES OF Site • Book • Blog • Twitter Easy check-in questions for your 1:1s during times of crisis. This post originally appeared in my newsletter. Subscribe to receive it!. Here are the questions I’ve been asking in coaching calls with managers and individual contributors alike, to get a gut check on how folks are feeling during this awful, strange season—without making the conversation too IS MANAGING UP A BAD THING? Here’s mine: managing up is about routinely iterating on and improving your relationship with a person who has more power than you do. That includes asking for help, giving feedback, and setting (and resetting) shared expectations. There is a TON of content to cover here, so I’m going to make this a two-part series. In this one, Italk about:
WHEN YOUR MANAGER ISN'T SUPPORTING YOU, BUILD A VOLTRON When your manager isn't supporting you, build a Voltron. Originally posted Jan 4, 2018. In my years of coaching managers and individual contributors, I’ve routinely heard the following complaints about their bosses: “My manager isn’t giving me any feedback.”. “My MANAGEMENT COACH & TRAINER FOR THE TECH INDUSTRY Resilient Management. Finding your bearings as a manager can feel overwhelming—but you don’t have to fake it to make it, and you don’t have to go it alone. Lara Hogan shares her recipe for supporting and leading a tech team—from developing your mentoring and coaching skills, to getting comfortable with having difficultconversations, to
HOW TO ORGANIZE A WORKING GROUP Site • Book • Blog • Twitter How to Organize a Working Group. Originally posted Mar 25, 2018. I’ve been running a lot of working groups as part of my consulting practice, leveling up product and engineering organizations. “Working groups” is a hand-wavy term that can mean a lot of things; I use this term to describe a small group of people who come together with a common goal ROLEPLAYING DIFFICULT CONVERSATIONS Hold a “difficult conversations showcase”. Grab a conference room for an hour and invite all the managers in your organization. Ask six folks to practice giving/receiving feedback at the front of the room, so that the rest of the managers can see different styles andapproaches to
FAIRNESS AND MANAGEMENT Site • Book • Blog • Twitter Fairness and management. This post originally appeared in my newsletter. Subscribe to receive it!. I’ve been thinking a ton about fairness since I came across this HBR article: “Research: When Managers Are Overworked, They Treat Employees Less Fairly” “To be judged as fair by employees, bosses have to attend to four aspects of fairness: First, they A TINY, POWERFUL QUESTION FOR BETTER FEEDBACK Site • Book • Blog • Twitter A Tiny, Powerful Question for Better Feedback. Originally posted Apr 21, 2019. This post originally appeard on the 11:11 Supply Nerd Out Blog. Giving feedback is hard.Most of us avoid giving routine feedback to our friends, partners, coworkers; the act of giving someone clear feedback can feel really heavy and intense. HOW TO SAY NO RIGHT NOW My goal is to help make it feel a bit easier to say “no” right now so you can get a bit more breathing room (and have space to say “yes” to the right things). We’re going to follow these steps: Identify the #1 thing you are optimizing for through the end of the year. Run any decision past that #1 HOW TO FACILITATE A WORKING GROUP MEETING Site • Book • Blog • Twitter How to Facilitate a Working Group Meeting. Originally posted Mar 26, 2018. This is where the magic happens. After you’ve laid all the ground work for organizing a working group (define ground rules, choose and invite attendees, plan your agenda arc, and communicate broadly), here’s what to do when you finally get your participants in the room together. EASY CHECK-IN QUESTIONS FOR YOUR 1:1S DURING TIMES OF Site • Book • Blog • Twitter Easy check-in questions for your 1:1s during times of crisis. This post originally appeared in my newsletter. Subscribe to receive it!. Here are the questions I’ve been asking in coaching calls with managers and individual contributors alike, to get a gut check on how folks are feeling during this awful, strange season—without making the conversation too IS MANAGING UP A BAD THING? Here’s mine: managing up is about routinely iterating on and improving your relationship with a person who has more power than you do. That includes asking for help, giving feedback, and setting (and resetting) shared expectations. There is a TON of content to cover here, so I’m going to make this a two-part series. In this one, Italk about:
WHEN YOUR MANAGER ISN'T SUPPORTING YOU, BUILD A VOLTRON When your manager isn't supporting you, build a Voltron. Originally posted Jan 4, 2018. In my years of coaching managers and individual contributors, I’ve routinely heard the following complaints about their bosses: “My manager isn’t giving me any feedback.”. “My FAIRNESS AND MANAGEMENT Site • Book • Blog • Twitter Fairness and management. This post originally appeared in my newsletter. Subscribe to receive it!. I’ve been thinking a ton about fairness since I came across this HBR article: “Research: When Managers Are Overworked, They Treat Employees Less Fairly” “To be judged as fair by employees, bosses have to attend to four aspects of fairness: First, they MANAGEMENT | LARA HOGAN Holding Balanced One on Ones worksheet. It’s helpful to walk into your 1:1s with a game plan to build trust, help your direct report grow, and tackle some problems together. To do that, it’s important to find a balance between the three main hats you can wear as a manager: mentoring, coaching, and sponsoring. A TINY, POWERFUL QUESTION FOR BETTER FEEDBACK Site • Book • Blog • Twitter A Tiny, Powerful Question for Better Feedback. Originally posted Apr 21, 2019. This post originally appeard on the 11:11 Supply Nerd Out Blog. Giving feedback is hard.Most of us avoid giving routine feedback to our friends, partners, coworkers; the act of giving someone clear feedback can feel really heavy and intense.CODING A BOOK
I’ve done a lot of writing in the past few years, all on a Mac, and mostly in Sublime Text. I publish this site using Jekyll + GitHub Pages, so it’s easy for me to write blog posts and whatever with Markdown files. But when it comes to writing books, the options get a little interesting; there’s not much out there that feels as safe as an author might want to feel when writing. UPDATED: WORK AT DIFFERENT MANAGEMENT LEVELS In 2016, I published a blog post titled “ Work at different management levels ”, which was about how my work drastically changed over time as a manager, whether it was because of my team’s growth, my own growth, or the company’s growth. What I did day-to-day changed, what was hard about it changed, and how I measured my ownsuccess changed.
MANAGER HANDOFFS
The 1:1:1. One of the managers should start by restating the goals (transparent handoff of career and manager info, an opportunity for the direct report to clarify and even disagree with what’s said, and reduced changes to the direct report’s career momentum). After the restating of goals, the former manager should share their context DEALING WITH SURPRISING HUMAN EMOTIONS: DESK MOVES Dealing with surprising human emotions is one of the most challenging aspects of being a manager. Generally, when someone appears triggered, or angry, or some other strong emotion that’s surprising, it’s likely that their amygdala has been hijacked, which I’ve written about before. Our amygdalas are in charge of our emotional reactions, and they’re critical to our “fight or flight RESILIENT MANAGEMENT WORKSHEETS Pushes me out of my comfort zone Has more experience than I do Routinely delegates stretch projects Other: Works in a different field/discipline Has excellent WHAT DOES SPONSORSHIP LOOK LIKE? Site • Book • Blog • Twitter What does sponsorship look like? Originally posted May 14, 2017. Illustration by Catt Small. Studies have shown that women (and nonbinary folks) are over-mentored, but under-sponsored.As Herminia Ibarra, professor of organizational behavior at INSEAD and coauthor of the HBR article Why Men Still Get More Promotions Than Women explains, GIVING PRESENTATION FEEDBACK I routinely get the opportunity to provide feedback on draft versions of my coworkers’ presentations. I work with incredibly smart, interesting people, and it’s wonderful to listen to their stories, learn from them, and see what new thing they’re bringing to the industry. Having given different kinds of talks at a spectrum of venues, I’m able to ask questions and provide feedback that MANAGEMENT COACH & TRAINER FOR THE TECH INDUSTRY Resilient Management. Finding your bearings as a manager can feel overwhelming—but you don’t have to fake it to make it, and you don’t have to go it alone. Lara Hogan shares her recipe for supporting and leading a tech team—from developing your mentoring and coaching skills, to getting comfortable with having difficultconversations, to
HOW I’VE IMPROVED MY REMOTE PRESENTATION SETUP Site • Book • Blog • Twitter How I’ve improved my remote presentation setup. Originally posted Apr 2, 2021. When I wrote Demystifying Public Speaking, I based nearly all of my research and advice around how to brace yourself for, and give, in-person presentations.And for the first three years of being a self-employed trainer and coach at Wherewithall, 90% of my presentations were in THE ART OF THE TICK TOCK DOC Site • Book • Blog • Twitter The art of the tick tock doc. This post originally appeared in my newsletter. Subscribe to receive it!. Let’s say you need to get a critical new message out to your team: like a teammate’s departure, or a significant change to the businessstrategy.
HOW TO ORGANIZE A WORKING GROUP Site • Book • Blog • Twitter How to Organize a Working Group. Originally posted Mar 25, 2018. I’ve been running a lot of working groups as part of my consulting practice, leveling up product and engineering organizations. “Working groups” is a hand-wavy term that can mean a lot of things; I use this term to describe a small group of people who come together with a common goal ROLEPLAYING DIFFICULT CONVERSATIONS Hold a “difficult conversations showcase”. Grab a conference room for an hour and invite all the managers in your organization. Ask six folks to practice giving/receiving feedback at the front of the room, so that the rest of the managers can see different styles andapproaches to
FAIRNESS AND MANAGEMENT Site • Book • Blog • Twitter Fairness and management. This post originally appeared in my newsletter. Subscribe to receive it!. I’ve been thinking a ton about fairness since I came across this HBR article: “Research: When Managers Are Overworked, They Treat Employees Less Fairly” “To be judged as fair by employees, bosses have to attend to four aspects of fairness: First, they HOW TO SAY NO RIGHT NOW My goal is to help make it feel a bit easier to say “no” right now so you can get a bit more breathing room (and have space to say “yes” to the right things). We’re going to follow these steps: Identify the #1 thing you are optimizing for through the end of the year. Run any decision past that #1 IS MANAGING UP A BAD THING? Here’s mine: managing up is about routinely iterating on and improving your relationship with a person who has more power than you do. That includes asking for help, giving feedback, and setting (and resetting) shared expectations. There is a TON of content to cover here, so I’m going to make this a two-part series. In this one, Italk about:
QUESTIONS FOR OUR FIRST 1:1 WHEN YOUR MANAGER ISN'T SUPPORTING YOU, BUILD A VOLTRON When your manager isn't supporting you, build a Voltron. Originally posted Jan 4, 2018. In my years of coaching managers and individual contributors, I’ve routinely heard the following complaints about their bosses: “My manager isn’t giving me any feedback.”. “My MANAGEMENT COACH & TRAINER FOR THE TECH INDUSTRY Resilient Management. Finding your bearings as a manager can feel overwhelming—but you don’t have to fake it to make it, and you don’t have to go it alone. Lara Hogan shares her recipe for supporting and leading a tech team—from developing your mentoring and coaching skills, to getting comfortable with having difficultconversations, to
HOW I’VE IMPROVED MY REMOTE PRESENTATION SETUP Site • Book • Blog • Twitter How I’ve improved my remote presentation setup. Originally posted Apr 2, 2021. When I wrote Demystifying Public Speaking, I based nearly all of my research and advice around how to brace yourself for, and give, in-person presentations.And for the first three years of being a self-employed trainer and coach at Wherewithall, 90% of my presentations were in THE ART OF THE TICK TOCK DOC Site • Book • Blog • Twitter The art of the tick tock doc. This post originally appeared in my newsletter. Subscribe to receive it!. Let’s say you need to get a critical new message out to your team: like a teammate’s departure, or a significant change to the businessstrategy.
HOW TO ORGANIZE A WORKING GROUP Site • Book • Blog • Twitter How to Organize a Working Group. Originally posted Mar 25, 2018. I’ve been running a lot of working groups as part of my consulting practice, leveling up product and engineering organizations. “Working groups” is a hand-wavy term that can mean a lot of things; I use this term to describe a small group of people who come together with a common goal ROLEPLAYING DIFFICULT CONVERSATIONS Hold a “difficult conversations showcase”. Grab a conference room for an hour and invite all the managers in your organization. Ask six folks to practice giving/receiving feedback at the front of the room, so that the rest of the managers can see different styles andapproaches to
FAIRNESS AND MANAGEMENT Site • Book • Blog • Twitter Fairness and management. This post originally appeared in my newsletter. Subscribe to receive it!. I’ve been thinking a ton about fairness since I came across this HBR article: “Research: When Managers Are Overworked, They Treat Employees Less Fairly” “To be judged as fair by employees, bosses have to attend to four aspects of fairness: First, they HOW TO SAY NO RIGHT NOW My goal is to help make it feel a bit easier to say “no” right now so you can get a bit more breathing room (and have space to say “yes” to the right things). We’re going to follow these steps: Identify the #1 thing you are optimizing for through the end of the year. Run any decision past that #1 IS MANAGING UP A BAD THING? Here’s mine: managing up is about routinely iterating on and improving your relationship with a person who has more power than you do. That includes asking for help, giving feedback, and setting (and resetting) shared expectations. There is a TON of content to cover here, so I’m going to make this a two-part series. In this one, Italk about:
QUESTIONS FOR OUR FIRST 1:1 WHEN YOUR MANAGER ISN'T SUPPORTING YOU, BUILD A VOLTRON When your manager isn't supporting you, build a Voltron. Originally posted Jan 4, 2018. In my years of coaching managers and individual contributors, I’ve routinely heard the following complaints about their bosses: “My manager isn’t giving me any feedback.”. “MyBLOG | LARA HOGAN
Creating predictability and stability in times of rapid change. Mar 15, 2020 • management, leadership, leading-through-crises. A few years back, spurred by the effects of the 2016 election, I published a blog post called “ Managering in terrible times ”. It begins: readmore.
MANAGEMENT | LARA HOGAN Holding Balanced One on Ones worksheet. It’s helpful to walk into your 1:1s with a game plan to build trust, help your direct report grow, and tackle some problems together. To do that, it’s important to find a balance between the three main hats you can wear as a manager: mentoring, coaching, and sponsoring. HANDLING THE EMOTIONAL WEIGHT OF 1:1S Site • Book • Blog • Twitter Handling the Emotional Weight of 1:1s. This post originally appeared in my newsletter. Subscribe to receive it!. As the anniversary of the first pandemic lockdowns loom, I am sharing a round-up of resources to help you lead and support your teammates as they deal with continued grief and burnout—and resources to help you navigate your own emotional workload HOW I’VE IMPROVED MY REMOTE PRESENTATION SETUP Site • Book • Blog • Twitter How I’ve improved my remote presentation setup. Originally posted Apr 2, 2021. When I wrote Demystifying Public Speaking, I based nearly all of my research and advice around how to brace yourself for, and give, in-person presentations.And for the first three years of being a self-employed trainer and coach at Wherewithall, 90% of my presentations were in BECOMING A MANAGER IN 2021 Becoming a new manager is exciting in so many ways, but you’ll quickly notice that your work looks different than it did before. As you embrace this new role, my wish for you is that you build up your crew of support. I call this crew a Manager Voltron. It’s your giant superhero made up of all different kinds of support you might need ata
A TINY, POWERFUL QUESTION FOR BETTER FEEDBACK Site • Book • Blog • Twitter A Tiny, Powerful Question for Better Feedback. Originally posted Apr 21, 2019. This post originally appeard on the 11:11 Supply Nerd Out Blog. Giving feedback is hard.Most of us avoid giving routine feedback to our friends, partners, coworkers; the act of giving someone clear feedback can feel really heavy and intense. FAIRNESS AND MANAGEMENT Site • Book • Blog • Twitter Fairness and management. This post originally appeared in my newsletter. Subscribe to receive it!. I’ve been thinking a ton about fairness since I came across this HBR article: “Research: When Managers Are Overworked, They Treat Employees Less Fairly” “To be judged as fair by employees, bosses have to attend to four aspects of fairness: First, they EASY CHECK-IN QUESTIONS FOR YOUR 1:1S DURING TIMES OF Site • Book • Blog • Twitter Easy check-in questions for your 1:1s during times of crisis. This post originally appeared in my newsletter. Subscribe to receive it!. Here are the questions I’ve been asking in coaching calls with managers and individual contributors alike, to get a gut check on how folks are feeling during this awful, strange season—without making the conversation too QUESTIONS FOR OUR FIRST 1:1 Questions for our first 1:1. In the last few years, I’ve had the pleasure of kicking off lots of new reporting relationships with both engineers and engineering managers. Over time, I’ve learned that getting some particular data during an initial 1:1 can be really helpful, as I can refer back to the answers as I need to give a person DEALING WITH SURPRISING HUMAN EMOTIONS: DESK MOVES Dealing with surprising human emotions is one of the most challenging aspects of being a manager. Generally, when someone appears triggered, or angry, or some other strong emotion that’s surprising, it’s likely that their amygdala has been hijacked, which I’ve written about before. Our amygdalas are in charge of our emotional reactions, and they’re critical to our “fight or flight MANAGEMENT COACH & TRAINER FOR THE TECH INDUSTRY Resilient Management. Finding your bearings as a manager can feel overwhelming—but you don’t have to fake it to make it, and you don’t have to go it alone. Lara Hogan shares her recipe for supporting and leading a tech team—from developing your mentoring and coaching skills, to getting comfortable with having difficultconversations, to
HOW I’VE IMPROVED MY REMOTE PRESENTATION SETUP Site • Book • Blog • Twitter How I’ve improved my remote presentation setup. Originally posted Apr 2, 2021. When I wrote Demystifying Public Speaking, I based nearly all of my research and advice around how to brace yourself for, and give, in-person presentations.And for the first three years of being a self-employed trainer and coach at Wherewithall, 90% of my presentations were in THE ART OF THE TICK TOCK DOC Site • Book • Blog • Twitter The art of the tick tock doc. This post originally appeared in my newsletter. Subscribe to receive it!. Let’s say you need to get a critical new message out to your team: like a teammate’s departure, or a significant change to the businessstrategy.
HOW TO ORGANIZE A WORKING GROUP Site • Book • Blog • Twitter How to Organize a Working Group. Originally posted Mar 25, 2018. I’ve been running a lot of working groups as part of my consulting practice, leveling up product and engineering organizations. “Working groups” is a hand-wavy term that can mean a lot of things; I use this term to describe a small group of people who come together with a common goal ROLEPLAYING DIFFICULT CONVERSATIONS Hold a “difficult conversations showcase”. Grab a conference room for an hour and invite all the managers in your organization. Ask six folks to practice giving/receiving feedback at the front of the room, so that the rest of the managers can see different styles andapproaches to
FAIRNESS AND MANAGEMENT Site • Book • Blog • Twitter Fairness and management. This post originally appeared in my newsletter. Subscribe to receive it!. I’ve been thinking a ton about fairness since I came across this HBR article: “Research: When Managers Are Overworked, They Treat Employees Less Fairly” “To be judged as fair by employees, bosses have to attend to four aspects of fairness: First, they HOW TO SAY NO RIGHT NOW My goal is to help make it feel a bit easier to say “no” right now so you can get a bit more breathing room (and have space to say “yes” to the right things). We’re going to follow these steps: Identify the #1 thing you are optimizing for through the end of the year. Run any decision past that #1 IS MANAGING UP A BAD THING? Here’s mine: managing up is about routinely iterating on and improving your relationship with a person who has more power than you do. That includes asking for help, giving feedback, and setting (and resetting) shared expectations. There is a TON of content to cover here, so I’m going to make this a two-part series. In this one, Italk about:
QUESTIONS FOR OUR FIRST 1:1 WHEN YOUR MANAGER ISN'T SUPPORTING YOU, BUILD A VOLTRON When your manager isn't supporting you, build a Voltron. Originally posted Jan 4, 2018. In my years of coaching managers and individual contributors, I’ve routinely heard the following complaints about their bosses: “My manager isn’t giving me any feedback.”. “My MANAGEMENT COACH & TRAINER FOR THE TECH INDUSTRY Resilient Management. Finding your bearings as a manager can feel overwhelming—but you don’t have to fake it to make it, and you don’t have to go it alone. Lara Hogan shares her recipe for supporting and leading a tech team—from developing your mentoring and coaching skills, to getting comfortable with having difficultconversations, to
HOW I’VE IMPROVED MY REMOTE PRESENTATION SETUP Site • Book • Blog • Twitter How I’ve improved my remote presentation setup. Originally posted Apr 2, 2021. When I wrote Demystifying Public Speaking, I based nearly all of my research and advice around how to brace yourself for, and give, in-person presentations.And for the first three years of being a self-employed trainer and coach at Wherewithall, 90% of my presentations were in THE ART OF THE TICK TOCK DOC Site • Book • Blog • Twitter The art of the tick tock doc. This post originally appeared in my newsletter. Subscribe to receive it!. Let’s say you need to get a critical new message out to your team: like a teammate’s departure, or a significant change to the businessstrategy.
HOW TO ORGANIZE A WORKING GROUP Site • Book • Blog • Twitter How to Organize a Working Group. Originally posted Mar 25, 2018. I’ve been running a lot of working groups as part of my consulting practice, leveling up product and engineering organizations. “Working groups” is a hand-wavy term that can mean a lot of things; I use this term to describe a small group of people who come together with a common goal ROLEPLAYING DIFFICULT CONVERSATIONS Hold a “difficult conversations showcase”. Grab a conference room for an hour and invite all the managers in your organization. Ask six folks to practice giving/receiving feedback at the front of the room, so that the rest of the managers can see different styles andapproaches to
FAIRNESS AND MANAGEMENT Site • Book • Blog • Twitter Fairness and management. This post originally appeared in my newsletter. Subscribe to receive it!. I’ve been thinking a ton about fairness since I came across this HBR article: “Research: When Managers Are Overworked, They Treat Employees Less Fairly” “To be judged as fair by employees, bosses have to attend to four aspects of fairness: First, they HOW TO SAY NO RIGHT NOW My goal is to help make it feel a bit easier to say “no” right now so you can get a bit more breathing room (and have space to say “yes” to the right things). We’re going to follow these steps: Identify the #1 thing you are optimizing for through the end of the year. Run any decision past that #1 IS MANAGING UP A BAD THING? Here’s mine: managing up is about routinely iterating on and improving your relationship with a person who has more power than you do. That includes asking for help, giving feedback, and setting (and resetting) shared expectations. There is a TON of content to cover here, so I’m going to make this a two-part series. In this one, Italk about:
QUESTIONS FOR OUR FIRST 1:1 WHEN YOUR MANAGER ISN'T SUPPORTING YOU, BUILD A VOLTRON When your manager isn't supporting you, build a Voltron. Originally posted Jan 4, 2018. In my years of coaching managers and individual contributors, I’ve routinely heard the following complaints about their bosses: “My manager isn’t giving me any feedback.”. “MyBLOG | LARA HOGAN
Creating predictability and stability in times of rapid change. Mar 15, 2020 • management, leadership, leading-through-crises. A few years back, spurred by the effects of the 2016 election, I published a blog post called “ Managering in terrible times ”. It begins: readmore.
MANAGEMENT | LARA HOGAN Holding Balanced One on Ones worksheet. It’s helpful to walk into your 1:1s with a game plan to build trust, help your direct report grow, and tackle some problems together. To do that, it’s important to find a balance between the three main hats you can wear as a manager: mentoring, coaching, and sponsoring. HANDLING THE EMOTIONAL WEIGHT OF 1:1S Site • Book • Blog • Twitter Handling the Emotional Weight of 1:1s. This post originally appeared in my newsletter. Subscribe to receive it!. As the anniversary of the first pandemic lockdowns loom, I am sharing a round-up of resources to help you lead and support your teammates as they deal with continued grief and burnout—and resources to help you navigate your own emotional workload FAIRNESS AND MANAGEMENT Site • Book • Blog • Twitter Fairness and management. This post originally appeared in my newsletter. Subscribe to receive it!. I’ve been thinking a ton about fairness since I came across this HBR article: “Research: When Managers Are Overworked, They Treat Employees Less Fairly” “To be judged as fair by employees, bosses have to attend to four aspects of fairness: First, they BECOMING A MANAGER IN 2021 Becoming a new manager is exciting in so many ways, but you’ll quickly notice that your work looks different than it did before. As you embrace this new role, my wish for you is that you build up your crew of support. I call this crew a Manager Voltron. It’s your giant superhero made up of all different kinds of support you might need ata
A TINY, POWERFUL QUESTION FOR BETTER FEEDBACK Site • Book • Blog • Twitter A Tiny, Powerful Question for Better Feedback. Originally posted Apr 21, 2019. This post originally appeard on the 11:11 Supply Nerd Out Blog. Giving feedback is hard.Most of us avoid giving routine feedback to our friends, partners, coworkers; the act of giving someone clear feedback can feel really heavy and intense. HOW TO FACILITATE A WORKING GROUP MEETING Site • Book • Blog • Twitter How to Facilitate a Working Group Meeting. Originally posted Mar 26, 2018. This is where the magic happens. After you’ve laid all the ground work for organizing a working group (define ground rules, choose and invite attendees, plan your agenda arc, and communicate broadly), here’s what to do when you finally get your participants in the room together. EASY CHECK-IN QUESTIONS FOR YOUR 1:1S DURING TIMES OF Site • Book • Blog • Twitter Easy check-in questions for your 1:1s during times of crisis. This post originally appeared in my newsletter. Subscribe to receive it!. Here are the questions I’ve been asking in coaching calls with managers and individual contributors alike, to get a gut check on how folks are feeling during this awful, strange season—without making the conversation too QUESTIONS FOR OUR FIRST 1:1 Questions for our first 1:1. In the last few years, I’ve had the pleasure of kicking off lots of new reporting relationships with both engineers and engineering managers. Over time, I’ve learned that getting some particular data during an initial 1:1 can be really helpful, as I can refer back to the answers as I need to give a personMANAGER HANDOFFS
The 1:1:1. One of the managers should start by restating the goals (transparent handoff of career and manager info, an opportunity for the direct report to clarify and even disagree with what’s said, and reduced changes to the direct report’s career momentum). After the restating of goals, the former manager should share their context MANAGEMENT COACH & TRAINER FOR THE TECH INDUSTRY Resilient Management. Finding your bearings as a manager can feel overwhelming—but you don’t have to fake it to make it, and you don’t have to go it alone. Lara Hogan shares her recipe for supporting and leading a tech team—from developing your mentoring and coaching skills, to getting comfortable with having difficultconversations, to
HOW TO ORGANIZE A WORKING GROUP Site • Book • Blog • Twitter How to Organize a Working Group. Originally posted Mar 25, 2018. I’ve been running a lot of working groups as part of my consulting practice, leveling up product and engineering organizations. “Working groups” is a hand-wavy term that can mean a lot of things; I use this term to describe a small group of people who come together with a common goal HOW I’VE IMPROVED MY REMOTE PRESENTATION SETUP Site • Book • Blog • Twitter How I’ve improved my remote presentation setup. Originally posted Apr 2, 2021. When I wrote Demystifying Public Speaking, I based nearly all of my research and advice around how to brace yourself for, and give, in-person presentations.And for the first three years of being a self-employed trainer and coach at Wherewithall, 90% of my presentations were in THE ART OF THE TICK TOCK DOC Site • Book • Blog • Twitter The art of the tick tock doc. This post originally appeared in my newsletter. Subscribe to receive it!. Let’s say you need to get a critical new message out to your team: like a teammate’s departure, or a significant change to the businessstrategy.
ROLEPLAYING DIFFICULT CONVERSATIONS Hold a “difficult conversations showcase”. Grab a conference room for an hour and invite all the managers in your organization. Ask six folks to practice giving/receiving feedback at the front of the room, so that the rest of the managers can see different styles andapproaches to
FAIRNESS AND MANAGEMENT Site • Book • Blog • Twitter Fairness and management. This post originally appeared in my newsletter. Subscribe to receive it!. I’ve been thinking a ton about fairness since I came across this HBR article: “Research: When Managers Are Overworked, They Treat Employees Less Fairly” “To be judged as fair by employees, bosses have to attend to four aspects of fairness: First, they HOW TO SAY NO RIGHT NOW My goal is to help make it feel a bit easier to say “no” right now so you can get a bit more breathing room (and have space to say “yes” to the right things). We’re going to follow these steps: Identify the #1 thing you are optimizing for through the end of the year. Run any decision past that #1 HOW TO FACILITATE A WORKING GROUP MEETING Site • Book • Blog • Twitter How to Facilitate a Working Group Meeting. Originally posted Mar 26, 2018. This is where the magic happens. After you’ve laid all the ground work for organizing a working group (define ground rules, choose and invite attendees, plan your agenda arc, and communicate broadly), here’s what to do when you finally get your participants in the room together. IS MANAGING UP A BAD THING? Here’s mine: managing up is about routinely iterating on and improving your relationship with a person who has more power than you do. That includes asking for help, giving feedback, and setting (and resetting) shared expectations. There is a TON of content to cover here, so I’m going to make this a two-part series. In this one, Italk about:
QUESTIONS FOR OUR FIRST 1:1 MANAGEMENT COACH & TRAINER FOR THE TECH INDUSTRY Resilient Management. Finding your bearings as a manager can feel overwhelming—but you don’t have to fake it to make it, and you don’t have to go it alone. Lara Hogan shares her recipe for supporting and leading a tech team—from developing your mentoring and coaching skills, to getting comfortable with having difficultconversations, to
HOW TO ORGANIZE A WORKING GROUP Site • Book • Blog • Twitter How to Organize a Working Group. Originally posted Mar 25, 2018. I’ve been running a lot of working groups as part of my consulting practice, leveling up product and engineering organizations. “Working groups” is a hand-wavy term that can mean a lot of things; I use this term to describe a small group of people who come together with a common goal HOW I’VE IMPROVED MY REMOTE PRESENTATION SETUP Site • Book • Blog • Twitter How I’ve improved my remote presentation setup. Originally posted Apr 2, 2021. When I wrote Demystifying Public Speaking, I based nearly all of my research and advice around how to brace yourself for, and give, in-person presentations.And for the first three years of being a self-employed trainer and coach at Wherewithall, 90% of my presentations were in THE ART OF THE TICK TOCK DOC Site • Book • Blog • Twitter The art of the tick tock doc. This post originally appeared in my newsletter. Subscribe to receive it!. Let’s say you need to get a critical new message out to your team: like a teammate’s departure, or a significant change to the businessstrategy.
ROLEPLAYING DIFFICULT CONVERSATIONS Hold a “difficult conversations showcase”. Grab a conference room for an hour and invite all the managers in your organization. Ask six folks to practice giving/receiving feedback at the front of the room, so that the rest of the managers can see different styles andapproaches to
FAIRNESS AND MANAGEMENT Site • Book • Blog • Twitter Fairness and management. This post originally appeared in my newsletter. Subscribe to receive it!. I’ve been thinking a ton about fairness since I came across this HBR article: “Research: When Managers Are Overworked, They Treat Employees Less Fairly” “To be judged as fair by employees, bosses have to attend to four aspects of fairness: First, they HOW TO SAY NO RIGHT NOW My goal is to help make it feel a bit easier to say “no” right now so you can get a bit more breathing room (and have space to say “yes” to the right things). We’re going to follow these steps: Identify the #1 thing you are optimizing for through the end of the year. Run any decision past that #1 HOW TO FACILITATE A WORKING GROUP MEETING Site • Book • Blog • Twitter How to Facilitate a Working Group Meeting. Originally posted Mar 26, 2018. This is where the magic happens. After you’ve laid all the ground work for organizing a working group (define ground rules, choose and invite attendees, plan your agenda arc, and communicate broadly), here’s what to do when you finally get your participants in the room together. IS MANAGING UP A BAD THING? Here’s mine: managing up is about routinely iterating on and improving your relationship with a person who has more power than you do. That includes asking for help, giving feedback, and setting (and resetting) shared expectations. There is a TON of content to cover here, so I’m going to make this a two-part series. In this one, Italk about:
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Creating predictability and stability in times of rapid change. Mar 15, 2020 • management, leadership, leading-through-crises. A few years back, spurred by the effects of the 2016 election, I published a blog post called “ Managering in terrible times ”. It begins: readmore.
MANAGEMENT | LARA HOGAN Holding Balanced One on Ones worksheet. It’s helpful to walk into your 1:1s with a game plan to build trust, help your direct report grow, and tackle some problems together. To do that, it’s important to find a balance between the three main hats you can wear as a manager: mentoring, coaching, and sponsoring. HANDLING THE EMOTIONAL WEIGHT OF 1:1S Site • Book • Blog • Twitter Handling the Emotional Weight of 1:1s. This post originally appeared in my newsletter. Subscribe to receive it!. As the anniversary of the first pandemic lockdowns loom, I am sharing a round-up of resources to help you lead and support your teammates as they deal with continued grief and burnout—and resources to help you navigate your own emotional workload FAIRNESS AND MANAGEMENT Site • Book • Blog • Twitter Fairness and management. This post originally appeared in my newsletter. Subscribe to receive it!. I’ve been thinking a ton about fairness since I came across this HBR article: “Research: When Managers Are Overworked, They Treat Employees Less Fairly” “To be judged as fair by employees, bosses have to attend to four aspects of fairness: First, they BECOMING A MANAGER IN 2021 Becoming a new manager is exciting in so many ways, but you’ll quickly notice that your work looks different than it did before. As you embrace this new role, my wish for you is that you build up your crew of support. I call this crew a Manager Voltron. It’s your giant superhero made up of all different kinds of support you might need ata
A TINY, POWERFUL QUESTION FOR BETTER FEEDBACK Site • Book • Blog • Twitter A Tiny, Powerful Question for Better Feedback. Originally posted Apr 21, 2019. This post originally appeard on the 11:11 Supply Nerd Out Blog. Giving feedback is hard.Most of us avoid giving routine feedback to our friends, partners, coworkers; the act of giving someone clear feedback can feel really heavy and intense. HOW TO FACILITATE A WORKING GROUP MEETING Site • Book • Blog • Twitter How to Facilitate a Working Group Meeting. Originally posted Mar 26, 2018. This is where the magic happens. After you’ve laid all the ground work for organizing a working group (define ground rules, choose and invite attendees, plan your agenda arc, and communicate broadly), here’s what to do when you finally get your participants in the room together. EASY CHECK-IN QUESTIONS FOR YOUR 1:1S DURING TIMES OF Site • Book • Blog • Twitter Easy check-in questions for your 1:1s during times of crisis. This post originally appeared in my newsletter. Subscribe to receive it!. Here are the questions I’ve been asking in coaching calls with managers and individual contributors alike, to get a gut check on how folks are feeling during this awful, strange season—without making the conversation too WHAT DOES SPONSORSHIP LOOK LIKE? Site • Book • Blog • Twitter What does sponsorship look like? Originally posted May 14, 2017. Illustration by Catt Small. Studies have shown that women (and nonbinary folks) are over-mentored, but under-sponsored.As Herminia Ibarra, professor of organizational behavior at INSEAD and coauthor of the HBR article Why Men Still Get More Promotions Than Women explains,MANAGER HANDOFFS
The 1:1:1. One of the managers should start by restating the goals (transparent handoff of career and manager info, an opportunity for the direct report to clarify and even disagree with what’s said, and reduced changes to the direct report’s career momentum). After the restating of goals, the former manager should share their context MANAGEMENT COACH & TRAINER FOR THE TECH INDUSTRY Resilient Management. Finding your bearings as a manager can feel overwhelming—but you don’t have to fake it to make it, and you don’t have to go it alone. Lara Hogan shares her recipe for supporting and leading a tech team—from developing your mentoring and coaching skills, to getting comfortable with having difficultconversations, to
HOW TO ORGANIZE A WORKING GROUP Site • Book • Blog • Twitter How to Organize a Working Group. Originally posted Mar 25, 2018. I’ve been running a lot of working groups as part of my consulting practice, leveling up product and engineering organizations. “Working groups” is a hand-wavy term that can mean a lot of things; I use this term to describe a small group of people who come together with a common goal THE ART OF THE TICK TOCK DOC Site • Book • Blog • Twitter The art of the tick tock doc. This post originally appeared in my newsletter. Subscribe to receive it!. Let’s say you need to get a critical new message out to your team: like a teammate’s departure, or a significant change to the businessstrategy.
ROLEPLAYING DIFFICULT CONVERSATIONS Hold a “difficult conversations showcase”. Grab a conference room for an hour and invite all the managers in your organization. Ask six folks to practice giving/receiving feedback at the front of the room, so that the rest of the managers can see different styles andapproaches to
A TINY, POWERFUL QUESTION FOR BETTER FEEDBACK Site • Book • Blog • Twitter A Tiny, Powerful Question for Better Feedback. Originally posted Apr 21, 2019. This post originally appeard on the 11:11 Supply Nerd Out Blog. Giving feedback is hard.Most of us avoid giving routine feedback to our friends, partners, coworkers; the act of giving someone clear feedback can feel really heavy and intense. HOW TO SAY NO RIGHT NOW My goal is to help make it feel a bit easier to say “no” right now so you can get a bit more breathing room (and have space to say “yes” to the right things). We’re going to follow these steps: Identify the #1 thing you are optimizing for through the end of the year. Run any decision past that #1 IS MANAGING UP A BAD THING? Here’s mine: managing up is about routinely iterating on and improving your relationship with a person who has more power than you do. That includes asking for help, giving feedback, and setting (and resetting) shared expectations. There is a TON of content to cover here, so I’m going to make this a two-part series. In this one, Italk about:
EASY CHECK-IN QUESTIONS FOR YOUR 1:1S DURING TIMES OF Site • Book • Blog • Twitter Easy check-in questions for your 1:1s during times of crisis. This post originally appeared in my newsletter. Subscribe to receive it!. Here are the questions I’ve been asking in coaching calls with managers and individual contributors alike, to get a gut check on how folks are feeling during this awful, strange season—without making the conversation tooMANAGER HANDOFFS
WHEN YOUR MANAGER ISN'T SUPPORTING YOU, BUILD A VOLTRON When your manager isn't supporting you, build a Voltron. Originally posted Jan 4, 2018. In my years of coaching managers and individual contributors, I’ve routinely heard the following complaints about their bosses: “My manager isn’t giving me any feedback.”. “My MANAGEMENT COACH & TRAINER FOR THE TECH INDUSTRY Resilient Management. Finding your bearings as a manager can feel overwhelming—but you don’t have to fake it to make it, and you don’t have to go it alone. Lara Hogan shares her recipe for supporting and leading a tech team—from developing your mentoring and coaching skills, to getting comfortable with having difficultconversations, to
HOW TO ORGANIZE A WORKING GROUP Site • Book • Blog • Twitter How to Organize a Working Group. Originally posted Mar 25, 2018. I’ve been running a lot of working groups as part of my consulting practice, leveling up product and engineering organizations. “Working groups” is a hand-wavy term that can mean a lot of things; I use this term to describe a small group of people who come together with a common goal THE ART OF THE TICK TOCK DOC Site • Book • Blog • Twitter The art of the tick tock doc. This post originally appeared in my newsletter. Subscribe to receive it!. Let’s say you need to get a critical new message out to your team: like a teammate’s departure, or a significant change to the businessstrategy.
ROLEPLAYING DIFFICULT CONVERSATIONS Hold a “difficult conversations showcase”. Grab a conference room for an hour and invite all the managers in your organization. Ask six folks to practice giving/receiving feedback at the front of the room, so that the rest of the managers can see different styles andapproaches to
A TINY, POWERFUL QUESTION FOR BETTER FEEDBACK Site • Book • Blog • Twitter A Tiny, Powerful Question for Better Feedback. Originally posted Apr 21, 2019. This post originally appeard on the 11:11 Supply Nerd Out Blog. Giving feedback is hard.Most of us avoid giving routine feedback to our friends, partners, coworkers; the act of giving someone clear feedback can feel really heavy and intense. HOW TO SAY NO RIGHT NOW My goal is to help make it feel a bit easier to say “no” right now so you can get a bit more breathing room (and have space to say “yes” to the right things). We’re going to follow these steps: Identify the #1 thing you are optimizing for through the end of the year. Run any decision past that #1 IS MANAGING UP A BAD THING? Here’s mine: managing up is about routinely iterating on and improving your relationship with a person who has more power than you do. That includes asking for help, giving feedback, and setting (and resetting) shared expectations. There is a TON of content to cover here, so I’m going to make this a two-part series. In this one, Italk about:
EASY CHECK-IN QUESTIONS FOR YOUR 1:1S DURING TIMES OF Site • Book • Blog • Twitter Easy check-in questions for your 1:1s during times of crisis. This post originally appeared in my newsletter. Subscribe to receive it!. Here are the questions I’ve been asking in coaching calls with managers and individual contributors alike, to get a gut check on how folks are feeling during this awful, strange season—without making the conversation tooMANAGER HANDOFFS
WHEN YOUR MANAGER ISN'T SUPPORTING YOU, BUILD A VOLTRON When your manager isn't supporting you, build a Voltron. Originally posted Jan 4, 2018. In my years of coaching managers and individual contributors, I’ve routinely heard the following complaints about their bosses: “My manager isn’t giving me any feedback.”. “MyBLOG | LARA HOGAN
Creating predictability and stability in times of rapid change. Mar 15, 2020 • management, leadership, leading-through-crises. A few years back, spurred by the effects of the 2016 election, I published a blog post called “ Managering in terrible times ”. It begins: readmore.
HOW I’VE IMPROVED MY REMOTE PRESENTATION SETUP Site • Book • Blog • Twitter How I’ve improved my remote presentation setup. Originally posted Apr 2, 2021. When I wrote Demystifying Public Speaking, I based nearly all of my research and advice around how to brace yourself for, and give, in-person presentations.And for the first three years of being a self-employed trainer and coach at Wherewithall, 90% of my presentations were inDONUT MANIFESTO
The importance of donuts. Eating a donut is an integral part of my career celebration process. Years ago, I found that whenever something awesome happened in my career – maybe I got published, or promoted, or launched a project – I wouldn’t take the time to celebrate theachievement.
TOOLS FOR INTROSPECTION Site • Book • Blog • Twitter Tools for Introspection. This post originally appeared in my newsletter. Subscribe to receive it!. As you wrap up the year, and as you reflect on your role as a manager or leader, I encourage you to develop a one-line leadership philosophy EASY CHECK-IN QUESTIONS FOR YOUR 1:1S DURING TIMES OF Site • Book • Blog • Twitter Easy check-in questions for your 1:1s during times of crisis. This post originally appeared in my newsletter. Subscribe to receive it!. Here are the questions I’ve been asking in coaching calls with managers and individual contributors alike, to get a gut check on how folks are feeling during this awful, strange season—without making the conversation too HOW TO FACILITATE A WORKING GROUP MEETING Site • Book • Blog • Twitter How to Facilitate a Working Group Meeting. Originally posted Mar 26, 2018. This is where the magic happens. After you’ve laid all the ground work for organizing a working group (define ground rules, choose and invite attendees, plan your agenda arc, and communicate broadly), here’s what to do when you finally get your participants in the room together. UPDATED: WORK AT DIFFERENT MANAGEMENT LEVELS In 2016, I published a blog post titled “ Work at different management levels ”, which was about how my work drastically changed over time as a manager, whether it was because of my team’s growth, my own growth, or the company’s growth. What I did day-to-day changed, what was hard about it changed, and how I measured my ownsuccess changed.
CODING A BOOK
I’ve done a lot of writing in the past few years, all on a Mac, and mostly in Sublime Text. I publish this site using Jekyll + GitHub Pages, so it’s easy for me to write blog posts and whatever with Markdown files. But when it comes to writing books, the options get a little interesting; there’s not much out there that feels as safe as an author might want to feel when writing.MANAGER HANDOFFS
The 1:1:1. One of the managers should start by restating the goals (transparent handoff of career and manager info, an opportunity for the direct report to clarify and even disagree with what’s said, and reduced changes to the direct report’s career momentum). After the restating of goals, the former manager should share their context DEALING WITH SURPRISING HUMAN EMOTIONS: DESK MOVES Dealing with surprising human emotions is one of the most challenging aspects of being a manager. Generally, when someone appears triggered, or angry, or some other strong emotion that’s surprising, it’s likely that their amygdala has been hijacked, which I’ve written about before. Our amygdalas are in charge of our emotional reactions, and they’re critical to our “fight or flightLara Hogan
Author, public speaker, and coach for managers and leaders across thetech industry.
RESILIENT MANAGEMENT FINDING YOUR BEARINGS AS A MANAGER CAN FEEL OVERWHELMING—BUT YOU DON’T HAVE TO FAKE IT TO MAKE IT, AND YOU DON’T HAVE TO GO IT ALONE. Lara Hogan shares her recipe for supporting and leading a tech team—from developing your mentoring and coaching skills, to getting comfortable with having difficult conversations, to boosting trust among teammates—while staying grounded along the way.ORDER NOW!
* What's in the book? * What people are sayingDIGITAL COURSES
I'm thrilled to announce the launch of the totally digital Demystifying Management Training Program!
We've transformed my renowned in-person workshop for managers into this self-paced virtual program. It's accessible, actionable, and will level you up each step of the way. MENTORING, COACHING, AND SPONSORING COURSE Skyrocket your teammates' growth by switching between mentoring, coaching, and sponsoring modes. (learn more) DEALING WITH SURPRISING HUMAN EMOTIONS COURSE Help your team navigate uncertainty, surprises, and change with the six core needs learn have at work. (learn more) DELIVERING (AND RECEIVING!) FEEDBACK COURSE Deliver specific, clear feedback that your teammates will actually hear and take action on. (learn more) SETTING EXPECTATIONS AS A MANAGER COURSE Recognize when and how to be more empowering, or more directive, with your team. (learn more) BUILDING RESILIENCE COURSE Strengthen your support network and manage your energy to successfully weather the tough times. (learn more)FREE PREVIEW
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MANAGEMENT & LEADERSHIP COACHING You may be new to management, a seasoned leader facing unique challenges, or looking down the road as you level up in your career. I provide one-on-one coaching to individuals looking for support, at any stage. I’m eager to help you grow into your own leadership style, and make management work for, and not against, you. Meeting with me is like having a one-on-one with a manager who cares deeply about, and is invested in, you and your own growth. I'm there to give you feedback, advice, and most importantly, to help you to deeply introspect and find the answers that already live inside ofyou.
RECENT RESOURCES
Get a peek at my style and approach to management on my blog —a go-to resource for managers in the tech industry as they navigate their role. It’s full of handy worksheets for one on ones, posts about better meetings, and tips for dealing with surprising human emotions. Subscribe via RSS or my newsletter.
AN INTRODUCTION TO CORRECTING—AND PREVENTING—COMPENSATION INEQUITY Are you fairly paying and promoting members of minoritized groups in your organization? (read more) WORK AT DIFFERENT MANAGEMENT LEVELS Given how intangible (and often hidden) management work can be, I wrote that blog post to shine a light on how this work evolves at different levels of seniority. (read more) A TINY, POWERFUL QUESTION FOR BETTER FEEDBACK Asking this question can make the feedback recipient feel seen and heard, and can turn the conversation into a two-way healthy dialog.(read more)
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WORKSHOPS & TRAINING FOR MANAGERS Equipping tech industry managers and emerging leaders with the dedicated training they might not otherwise have access to has profound impacts for the individual, their direct reports, their managers, and companies at large. From delivering feedback, to setting clear expectations, to dealing with surprising human emotions, I offer talks andworkshops
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Wherewithall to help support managers asthey grow.
Organizations can bring me in for a talk, a workshop focused on a particular skill, or a full-day foundational skills training for managers in any discipline. People have said some really nice things after bringing one of my workshops into their company: "Wherewithall’s approach to training is practical and engaging. They understood my team’s unique needs and adjusted the workshop content to focus on those areas."—Dana Trader, VP of Employee Experience atMeetup
"Taking Wherewithall’s workshop gave me a foundation for how to think like a manager. They teach a great set of mental models and concepts that I now use daily."—Arjan Singh, Engineering Manager atDollar Shave Club
"Bringing Wherewithall in is hands-down the best thing my company has ever done for my capabilities and career and, in turn, the best thing that could have happened for my reports."—Meg Adams, Engineering Manager at Condé Nast Hire me to train your managers! And check out
even more tools here .PUBLIC SPEAKING
Don’t think public speaking is for you? It is—whether you’re bracing for a conference talk or a team meeting. My book _Demystifying Public Speaking_ (A
Book Apart) helps you identify your fears and effectively face them, so you can make your way to the stage (big or small). Get clear, practical advice through every step, from choosing a topic and creating a presentation, to gathering and distilling feedback, to event-day prep. You’ll feel confident and equipped to step into thespotlight.
(A Book Apart, 2016)NETMAG INTERVIEW
I was featured in the February 2017 issue of Netmag’s “Voices Interview ” (PDF). We discussed web performance, honing management spidey senses, strength training, and public speaking. Check out more of my work on giving presentations , or watch my talks and interviews .TECHNICAL WORK
I’m the author of _Designing for Performance _. This practical introduction to performance from a designer and front-end developer perspectivecovers:
* The basics of
page speed: requests and how browsers render content, and how it impacts your site, brand, and users * Optimizing images, HTML, CSS, and fonts for performance * Implementing responsive web design with an eye on performance * Tactics for weighing aesthetic choices and their performanceimpact
* Tools for measuring and iterating on performance * Methods for shaping an organization’s performance culture The book is available for purchase from O'Reillyin both ebook and
print version. I'm donating all of the proceeds from the book to various charities focused on supporting underrepresented people in tech. You can also read the book onlinefor free.
WHY IS MY WEBSITE SLOW? (CODENEWBIE PODCAST) You’ve got an amazing website. It’s beautiful, functional, but it takes forever to load. I break down common web performance issues, tools you can use to diagnose the problem, and how to use AB testing to measure your results, in this podcast.
EMPATHY AND WEB PERFORMANCE(WEBSTOCK)
Website performance issues can disproportionately affect low-income households, folks with disabilities, rural and elderly populations. What can we do about it? Watch the video.
PERFORMANCE: SHOWING VERSUS TELLING(A
LIST APART)
Showcasing a real user experience is much more powerful than staring at numbers or bar charts. So how can we show performance? Use videos of your site loading, and wall monitors! This articleshows you how.
POPULAR MECHANICS
In the April 2016 issue of Popular Mechanics, “Technology’s Secret Weapon is Women” , women were interviewed about their contributions to the industry. I’m especially honored that they chose to include a photo of the first device lab that Destiny Montague and I built together. (Five Simple Steps, 2015) Check out more of my work on web performance and mobile web and device labs .Lara Hogan
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