How does one get promoted to team leads? How to get noticed and acknowledged for having potential? These are some great questions, and I’d like to tell a short story about it 📗 𝗕𝗲𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝘄𝗲 𝗷𝘂𝗺𝗽 𝗶𝗻, 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗮 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄: 1. You are responsible for your growth 🫵 2. Your manager can collaborate with you to find the direction of your growth 🗺️ 3. Once your manager knows of your direction, he can spot opportunities for your growth 🔎 4. You should not simply rely on your manager to lead you to where you want to be, it’s a collaboration 🧑🤝🧑 Recently, in Trafi, we welcomed a new addition to the managerial ranks — Daniel Dluznevskij 🎊 🎊 🎊 He knew where he wanted to go and proactively communicated his goals to his manager. As you may understand, an opening for such a position likely means that a new team has to be formed. This doesn’t happen often. In our case, it took more than a year for the opportunity to present itself, and it was twofold: 1. Our company secured a growth opportunity and, with it, the need for multiple new engineers. 2. The team I was leading was getting quite big and we were reshuffling our responsibilities. We agreed that a new team is to be formed and since we knew about Daniel’s aspirations this became that much easier 😌 We’ve set up a 3-month transition period for Daniel (I’ll leave the details for another post), which he completed with flying colors 🌈 𝗜𝗻 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝟯 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗵𝘀 𝗗𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗲𝗹 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼: 1. Form his team by hiring multiple new engineers 💪 2. Introduce an iOS Internship role and find a great match ❤️ 3. Lighten the load on my team by taking over some responsibilities 🪶 4. Bring his team to performing mode: lead technical discussions, establish new mobile apps, etc. 🙌 I’d love to hear what the promotion process for such roles is in your company. Please do share ♥️
Thank you, Trafi 🫶
Brilliant! Thank you for sharing. We are so glad to have people like you and Daniel Dluznevskij in the Trafi team👏💖