A framework for understanding, and then communicating decisions you may disagree with to your team.
Return-to-office mandates, layoffs, and strategic changes: Managers have been tasked with relaying a lot of big, and often difficult news, to teams over the last year.
Keeping our teams in the loop and making sure they have context on what’s going on in the broader organization is a critical part of our job as engineering managers. The role can sometimes feel like being a translator between different humans, business functions, and perspectives. But there’s one important detail to this work: When you communicate, you don’t just adhere to the original message like a professional translator would.