ENCORE: Protecting Your Team From Layoffs

This chapter discusses what you can do as a manager to protect your team from layoffs: Ensure the team is aligned with company goals. Raising the visibility of the good work of the individuals on the team. Managing performance. All of these things will help when someone is deciding whether anyone on your team should be laid off. This episode provides more information for individuals and explains that managers are judged more by their team's work and less by their own contributions.

Links:

• • The book: It Depends: Writing on Technology 2012-2022
  • Your host: Kevin Goldsmith
  • The newsletter
  • My talk from Leading Eng 2024: The Director to CTO Path