# TestBash Leadership 2022 - AMA with Toby Sinclair **URL:** \ **Category:** đŸȘ TestBash\ **Tags:** testbash-leadership\ **Created:** [10 March 2022 10:00 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/testbash-leadership-2022-ama-with-toby-sinclair/57108 "2022-03-10T10:00:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
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In this session, hosted by the great Vernon Richards, @tobysinclair will be answering questions about Leadership, from our attendees live on the Main Stage. To learn more about Toby’s story and career, [check out his website here](https://www.tobysinclair.com/about). We’ll use this Club thread to share resources mentioned during the session and answer any questions we don’t get to during the live session. ---
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# Questions Answered Live: 1. @alvarion - How do you best convince your VP to stop saying Automation is the only method of Testing 2. @jitgo - What is the difference between coaching, mentoring and teaching? 3. @chris_dabnor - What do you do if you can’t find out the motivation of one of your reports, even with direct questioning? 4. @j19sch - What’s one of the smallest yet valuable acts of leadership you’ve seen? 5. @marie.drake - They say that people leave a job not because of their work but because of their managers. What is one advise you can give to managers to avoid this situation? 6. @helianthus - I’ve recently joined a team and now gotten the agile coach role - wondering how you would approach “re-discovering” a teams agile identity in form of processes? 7. @scottkenyon - What is one of the main differences you now see from office-based to home-based leadership? 8. Anonymous - How would you coach team members who struggle with a lack of emotional intelligence? # Resources - [Why an Agile Team Charter is Essential to Success](https://www.smartfile.com/blog/agile-team-charter/#:~:text=What%20is%20an%20Agile%20Team,of%20any%20project%20is%20brittle) - Book - [Tiny Habits Book | BJ Fogg](https://tinyhabits.com/book/) - Book - [The Knowing-Doing Gap - Jeffrey Pfeffer](https://jeffreypfeffer.com/books/the-knowing-doing-gap/) # Questions Not Answered Live: 1. @ThePirateTester - Some see people management as the only way to progress and be promoted. This isn’t suitable (or possible) for everyone. How can this be dispelled? 2. @kika - How to deal with tough situations when you are leading a team with team members who are senior to you? 3. @neutcomp - How to deal with colleagues that always have excuses do not do there work properly. 😬 4. @paulmorrishhl - Do you have any advice on how to approach and champion a shift left approach in a small organisation? We’re an open company but testing is a final involvement 5. @elliottjames870 - Do you have any tips for getting less talkative team members to open up about their goals, issues, etc? 6. @atkinsr - Do you follow any or recommend any developmental frameworks with members that you coach in the team? 7. @beardytester - Who do you encourage engagement in communities of practice? 8. @paulmorrishhl - Do you make a distinction between a “manager” and a “leader”, and if so, what would you say is the difference between the two? 9. @samecjiri - How much people can person coach at once in the team and how to deal with situation when team is too big to coach each of them. 10. @brijeshdeb - As a leader how do measure how good you are? Is it the number of followers you have or is it about the impact that you have on people? 11. @alg - What strategies do you have for getting closer to teams to help lead them better? 12. @brandon.conley - How would you encourage the team to be more enthusiastic and encourage more self learning and curiosity about testing rather than drip feed them information? 13. @edthetestingtester - What would you say are the top behaviours to demonstrate as a leader? 14. @jesseberkeley - Your company has a desire to have an operational “Global Team” (multiple time zones), how do you build shared ownership & accountability for each member?