5 minutes
In higher levels of leadership, one of the most important aspects of the job is communicating effectively with executives. So how do we go about doing that?
Over my time in engineering leadership, one of the hardest lessons to learn was executive communication. Communicating with an audience where everyone has drastically different skillsets and expectations of engineering isn’t easy, but doing it effectively is necessary for success.
Know your audience
When you’re first managing an engineering team as part of a bigger organization, almost everyone you’re communicating with regularly has similar backgrounds and experiences. Your team members and your peers, even if they’re in product, design, or some other discipline, generally speak the same language and have the same focus areas of the business.
