Self-reflection: How to become a confident, high-performing leader (with Ramona Shaw)

01/03/22 • 84 min

Engineering Leadership Excellence Podcast

In the seventh episode of our podcast series, Joshua welcomes Ramona Shaw, his BetterManager leadership coach. Ramona works with both emerging and experienced technology leaders to help them achieve their fullest leadership potential.

In this inspiring episode, Joshua and Ramona explore the function and value of coaching, revealing actual examples of challenges they worked on together as catalysts for Joshua’s growth.

Ramona, who spent years working in a corporate setting before transitioning to full-time coaching, shares the patterns she has identified that lead to success for leaders in all fields. She highlights and explains the need to cultivate open-mindedness, to prioritize long-term growth over short-term gains, and to take regular time to self-reflect. She further explores the most important thing for leaders: to use those methods to tune their leadership style to each new situation and challenge.

To learn more about Ramona and her work, visit www.ramonashaw.com, listen to her podcast The Manager Track, or find her on LinkedIn or Instagram.

To learn more about how BetterManager could help you become a stronger leader through an evidenced-based combination of Coaching, Group Skills Training, Actionable Assessments, and E-Learning, visit www.bettermanager.us

Interested in joining our growing team at Productboard? Well, we’re hiring across the board! Check out our careers page for the latest vacancies. We’d love to hear from you!

In this inspiring episode, Joshua and Ramona explore the function and value of coaching, revealing actual examples of challenges they worked on together as catalysts for Joshua’s growth.

To learn more about Ramona and her work, visit www.ramonashaw.com, listen to her podcast The Manager Track, or find her on LinkedIn or Instagram.

Interested in joining our growing team at Productboard? Well, we’re hiring across the board! Check out our careers page for the latest vacancies. We’d love to hear from you!

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In the sixth episode of our podcast series, Joshua welcomed Timmy Ho, our first engineering hire in North America. An engineering manager in our Vancouver office, Timmy reflected on bootstrapping our new Canadian development center. The discussion touched on topics including product excellence, agile development, the importance of work-life balance, and how to build strong teams and culture. It also provided an intriguing glimpse into Productboard’s growth engineering and other exciting challenges in store for Productboard Canada in the coming months.

Interested in joining our growing team at Productboard? Well, we’re hiring across the board! Check out our careers page for the latest vacancies. We’d love to hear from you!

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In our first episode of Season 2, we chatted with Ralph McTeggart, Principal Engineer at Productboard, about his decision to become a Tech Lead after wearing a manager hat for several years.
He examines the benefits as well as the challenges he faced upon returning closer to the technical side, sharing how the skills he gained from serving in both positions are now helping him in his day-to-day at Productboard.
Ralph discusses his approach to architecture and documentation, the importance of establishing strong networks both in and outside the office, why feedback matters, the reality of imposter syndrome, and how engineers can advance their careers without crossing into the management track.

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Interested in joining our growing team at Productboard? Well, we’re hiring across the board! Check out our careers page for the latest vacancies. We’d love to hear from you!