Are you falling into these leadership traps?


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How leaders shape their team’s growth can make or break its success. We all know how bad leadership ruins teams and culture. But what about good leaders? What is the biggest mistake they make that limits team growth?.

🔝Leadership and Limiting Team Growth

Are You Accidentally Stifling Your Team's Growth?

"Your role as a leader isn’t to be the sole problem-solver or decision-maker. It’s to create an environment where your team feels empowered to rely on one another and work together to move forward"

☑️Building Trust as an Engineering Leader

Building trust -> this is the first thing you should do when starting a new role or coming to a new team! Trust is earned and not given. You build trust by consistently doing the right things.
-Gregor Ojstersek

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