What leadership techniques have you used to influence your team and drive change?

[sarah1 (Sarah Deery)]

This week’s article, “Leading your development team as an individual contributor” by @pessimisttester, delves into how software testers can step up as leaders and drive change

What You’ll Learn:

Lead as an individual contributor: Learn how to apply transformational leadership techniques as a tester, to drive change, regardless of your role.

Authentic Leadership: Explore how understanding your traits and using authentic leadership principles can help you build trust and influence, making you a more effective contributor.

Influence and Inspire: Discover proactive ways to persuade your team to embrace new ideas, and how to support them through change with individual consideration and intellectual stimulation.

After reading, we’d love to hear from you:

Have you led initiatives or driven change as an individual contributor? Share your stories or tips on how you’ve influenced your teams!

[jesper (Jesper Ottosen)]

I recently read " Leading Effective Engineering Teams: Lessons for Individual Contributors and Managers from 10 Years at Google as part of an agile & AI book club, one thing I took away as an IC often acting as a leader was this

Grow others and then sit on your hands you could say. I try to do that almost everyday, though its hard when you know a lot.