Wrapping Up
Explore a comprehensive review of effective performance management for engineering teams. Understand setting clear expectations, applying metrics, motivating members, delivering feedback, and handling difficult decisions including termination and succession planning. This lesson helps you tie all core concepts together to confidently apply them in managing team performance.
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Congratulations on completing this course. We have covered a whole lot of ground!
The course focused on the core concepts of performance management, ranging from setting clear expectations and holding your direct reports accountable to identifying the key motivating factors/metrics and providing concrete feedback/rewards based on their performances.
Here’s a summary of some of the important things we learned along the way:
As an engineering manager, it is extremely important to set clear expectations for your team. We discussed the difference between goals and expectations. We learned that clear expectations are comprehensible, measurable, and actionable. We discussed the importance of rubrics for performance expectations.
Accountability is an important pillar of performance management. We discussed ...