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Engineering Leadership at VMware Tanzu Labs

Here are 7 practices focused on creating the right environment for motivating employees to go above and beyond, consistently in the long-term.

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Sheet1 Product Design Career Ladder,Core Skills: User Research, Interaction Design, Information Architecture, Writing, Visual Design, Service Design, Prototyping, Front-end Development, Video and Photo Production, Concepting/Art Direction, Quantitative Research and Analysis, Animation Individua...

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A lot of the hard important work that goes into good data work is invisible. For example, most of an exploratory data analysis is testing *and discarding* hy...

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Tiffany Eaton, Interaction Designer at Google, will talk about best practices and how to position yourself as a designer in portfolio presentations so you ca...

Use OKRs like a boss.

Alternative: Reverse engineer their advice and improve recruitment at your business.

An analysis of 9 million global employee records sheds light on key trends around which employees are most likely to quit.

Thread by @imightbemary: Every so often I see a Twitter thread where a new manager asks for advice, and inevitably, someone in the comments below says something to the effect of, "hire awesome people, listen to...…

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Tool to see how well top companies such as Figma, Palantir, Netflix, Twitch, Yelp view your resume.

And how to motivate them to stay.

Pod. Work group. Committee. Autonomous collective. Whatever you call it, you’re part of one at Google and probably wherever you work: a team. So if we know what makes managers great, why don’t we know what makes a team great?

11 tips for managers.

Here are a few resources I found helpful as I thought through this for my team. Short thread.👇🧵

Leaders create the conditions that lead to burnout — or prevent it.

Learn how to define OKRs using leading and lagging indicators, so you can measure progress before it's too late to adjust.

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6. If you have competing offers, reverse interviewing can help top the scale - instead of an additional 2-3% in cash. Money won’t make you happy for long, but a great team/environment will.How do you know if the environment is good/bad? Reverse interview!— Gergely Orosz (@GergelyOrosz) July 21, 2021

"How do I retain my best employees?" Your immediate answers, as a leader, might be to focus on the following: (1) Salary (2) Career growth + promotions (3) Employee recognition. While all valuable, these areas overlook a primary factor in employee retention: The Work Itself.