Engineering Leadership Training Topics

An extensive list of engineering leadership training and mentorship topics that can be useful if your team is also responsible for leadership training.

Leadership Development

Advocating for your product
Being a better leader
Being a new manager
Being a new PM
Being a PM without a technical background
Being a servant leader under Psychological Safety
Feeling legitimate leading a team you haven't worked with before
Gaining respect from your product team
Gaining support from an executive sponsor
Giving constructive feedback
Growing in your career
Handling work-related stress and tension in your team
Having more impact as a manager
Having more impact as an Individual Contributor
Helping your direct reports grow in their career
Improving your one-on-ones
Managing a disagreement between you and other managers
Managing people with a different skillset than yours
Managing & retaining rockstar developers
Managing someone more skilled / experienced than you
Managing upward
Overseeing your reports' work without micromanaging
Resolving unhealthy atmospheres
Standing up for your team
Training a manager to be a manager of managers
Training an IC to a management role
Transitioning from IC to management
Transitioning from managing ICs to managing managers

Leadership and Management

Becoming a manager of PMs
Becoming an engineering manager without a technical background
Being a better leader
Being a new manager
Coaching emotional and social skills
Delegating and increasing the accountability of your reports
Empowering your product team
Gaining respect from your product team
Handling promotion
Having more impact as a manager
Having more impact as an individual contributor
Managing in a matrix organization
Managing junior engineers
Managing people with a different skillset than yours
Managing & retaining rockstar developers
Managing someone more skilled/experienced than you
Managing upward
Plan your succession
Resolving unhealthy atmospheres
Retaining engineers and preventing churn
Retaining high performers
Rewarding high potentials
Training a manager to be a manager of managers
Training an IC to a management role
Transitioning from IC to management
Transitioning from managing ICs to managing managers

Team Building and Collaboration

Aligning your team with the company goals / vision
Building engagement and motivation when onboarding
Building / formalizing the career ladder in your company
Building trust as a manager
Building your company culture
Collaborating better with your remote teams
Communicating with non-engineering teams / people
Communicating with your product team
Delegating and increasing the accountability of your reports
Developing team rapport
Empowering teams to be more autonomous
Handling promotion
Handling the first promotions in an early-stage startup
Improving collaboration between cross-functional teams
Improving collaboration between engineering and business
Improving collaboration between engineering and product
Improving collaboration between engineers of the same team
Improving collaboration with contractors
Improving documentation
Improving sprint planning
Increasing diversity in your team
Increasing the engagement and productivity of your team
Increasing visibility
Introducing automated testing
Keeping a team motivated when downsizing
Making hiring more time-eﬃcient
Managing junior engineers
Managing your product team remotely
Onboarding and training junior developers
Providing learning opportunities to engineers
Putting ego aside
Putting feelings aside
Sharing Information through an Eng Team
Structuring a scaling team
Structuring processes of a scaling team
Successfully integrating new teams after an acquisition
Successfully onboarding new hires
Working with former peers

Hiring and Recruitment

Assessing technical abilities when interviewing
Hiring for a different skillset than yours
Hiring people from non-traditional backgrounds
Knowing what profile/skillset you need to hire
Recruiting PMs
Sourcing and attracting great engineer candidates

Product Development

Building a data product
Building a MVP with AI
Building and managing a data team
Building and managing a product team
Building and managing a security team
Building and managing platform team
Building a product from scratch
Building a product team from scratch
Building a QA team
Conducting user research
Defining the product strategy
Defining well your product metrics
Empowering your product team
Finding a product-market fit
Prioritizing product features
Prioritizing what your team should work on
Setting up a product roadmap

Product Management

Advocating for your product
Building a data product
Building and managing a product team
Defining the product strategy
Defining well your product metrics
Ensuring alignment
Finding a product-market fit
Handling work-related stress and tension in your team
Improving collaboration between engineering and product
Launching a product in a new continent/country
Managing expectations on product
Managing your product team remotely
Prioritizing product features
Providing learning opportunities to engineers
Setting up a product roadmap

Technical Development

Assessing technical abilities when interviewing
Being a software engineer in a hardware company
Breaking a monolith into microservices
Building and managing a data team
Building and managing platform team
Changing a company
Choosing the right architecture
Coaching emotional and social skills
Developing a strategy

Technical Skills and Practices

Breaking a monolith into microservices
Developing a strategy
Implementing Squad/Tribe structure in Engineering Team
Improving a peer review process
Improving collaboration between cross-functional teams
Improving documentation
Improving on-call
Improving sprint planning
Introducing automated testing
Measuring the performance of your engineers
Migrating from manual QA to automated QA
Migrating to cloud
Scaling a product team
Setting up an architecture committee
Setting up dev processes
Solving complex technical problems
Understanding and implementing metrics for my team or myself
Working in an agile environment