Attention, Engineering Managers!

How to stop worrying about how well you’re doing as a manager

• If you bring workplace stress home to your family each evening…
• If you’re used to excelling, but you feel mediocre in your new role…
• If you’re afraid management may not be for you, but you don’t want to go backwards in your career…

… then this message is for you. Here’s why.

You can develop the leadership skills that will let you not only succeed in your management career, but actually excel in it.

And you need to realize, there’s a cost to not dealing with this…

If you don’t take action, things don’t stay the same. They get worse.

When most new managers feel like they’re in over their head, they work harder, stay later, dig in, and burn out. They take a management training course and then struggle to meet their new responsibilities.

They look to podcasts, books, articles, and colleagues for ideas and strategies, only to find that they’re getting conflicting opinions and unhelpful tactics. They try to sift through the advice and implement something, but it often backfires.

• You and every member of your team are unique individual human beings who often don’t fit general advice.
• Management training can tell you what good managers do, but it rarely helps you establish habits that work for you.
• The barriers to success in leadership are rarely about gaps in knowledge. Learning new techniques usually doesn’t help.
• What has made you valuable so far in your career now often conspires to sabotage your success.

And what happens if you keep doing the same thing? You start to resent your job, create pressure for your team, and bring your stress home with you.

How I help you succeed as an engineering manager

I spent more than two decades leading software engineering teams in everything from a tiny startup to a Fortune 100 company, through multiple acquisitions, a merger, a spinoff, and an IPO. I remember the feeling moving up the leadership ladder, finally having a seat at the table … and feeling like I didn’t belong.

But I also had the benefit of great personal coaching. I had a safe place where I could talk about my leadership challenges — without fearing that the mistakes I admitted would be held against me.

I learned how different teams need different leadership. I learned how to release my desperate internal need to be the smartest person in the room and let my team excel instead.

The EM Breakthrough program offers you the same opportunity to grow. I’ll help you discover your unique, personal combination of traits that serve to accelerate and/or resist your leadership development. I’ll give you a safe, confidential space to honestly assess how things are working and what you might do differently. I’ll help you learn to embrace the new habits and perspectives that make engineering leaders most effective.

And I’ll challenge you to become the person you didn’t realize you could be.

It worked for these people, and it can work for you

• Jerry sponsored coaching on his team. He now reports “a higher level of confidence and a greater level of engagement.”
• Hassan found “great self awareness.” He says that coaching from Northway Insights “is a great way to know your strengths and weaknesses.”
• Jeff says, “I just needed someone to pull me out of the fog so I could see the path in front of me! You did that masterfully!”
• Another client says that coaching with Northway Insights “changed me.” He discovered “more confidence” and a “sense of urgency, purpose, and belonging.”
• Michael says, “[Steve] helped me realize that I am great at what I do. He helped me get out of my head, and get into action. I can’t thank Steve enough and would highly recommend him… .”

Finally, It’s Your Turn

When you participate in the EM Breakthrough Leadership Development Program, here’s what you’ll get…

• Confidence in your daily work and interactions with others
• Clarity on your personal strengths and challenges
• Support to create your own personalized development plan
• Access to leadership tools, tactics, and strategies from Steve’s decades of engineering leadership experience

… and most importantly …

• Self-awareness and insight to help you make the internal changes you’ll need to succeed when shifting from a technical expert to a leader of other human beings.

To start … it costs you zero dollars. If you apply and are approved for the program onboarding, you’ll get a complimentary ninety-minute leadership coaching session at no charge.

Why am I giving away something so valuable? Because I want us both to be completely convinced before we agree to work together. If either of us has any reservations about a long-term engagement after that first coaching session, then you won’t join the program, and you won’t send me even one cent.

But you’ll still keep all the benefit of that coaching session as my gift to you.

It’s Decision Time

You have a choice to make: Do what you’ve been doing (or worse, do nothing at all). You know where that will lead. More fear. More stress. More uncertainty. Is that really where you want to go? Take a new action, and get a new result.

Apply to the EM Breakthrough Leadership Development Program and request your complimentary 90-minute coaching session with no risk.

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