Storytime With Managers
31 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsIn "Storytime With Managers", Jennifer Tu asks the questions you might ask an expert over a cup of coffee - including the ones you feel scared to ask - packaged up neatly into 20min podcast episodes.
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Episodes
Discovering Managing with Ashish Dixit
July 08, 2020 15:00 - 20 minutes - 25.5 MBStorytime With Managers is a collection of twenty minute conversations where Jennifer Tu finds answers to questions of interest to both established and budding leaders in technology fields. The last episode of Season 4 is a hero's journey story! Ashish Dixit (@tundal45 on Twitter) shares how he found himself managing a team of volunteers (and realized this was happening through failure), how he approached this experience, and what he learned through an accidental discovery of "oops I'm man...
Ask and Offer Culture with KWu
July 01, 2020 14:00 - 24 minutes - 28.6 MBStorytime With Managers is a collection of twenty minute conversations where Jennifer Tu finds answers to questions of interest to both established and budding leaders in technology fields. Ever heard these sentiments in your workplace? "That was so unprofessional!" "Why are they being so rude?" "Don't they care about ___?" Different default assumptions around communications can lead to painful miscommunications and hurt feelings. "Ask and Offer Culture" (or as Ask-ers like to call it...
Technical Leading with Edwin Mak
June 24, 2020 12:00 - 20 minutes - 23.3 MBStorytime With Managers is a collection of twenty minute conversations where Jennifer Tu finds answers to questions of interest to both established and budding leaders in technology fields. How do you give technical feedback and direction without inflicting unwanted help? or change direction without introducing bad feelings? In Episode 27, Edwin Mak (@edwinthinks on Twitter) shares how to be an effective tech lead. We talk about how to ask the right questions from the right mindset t...
Unexpected Onboarding with Ale Paredes
May 27, 2020 12:00 - 24 minutes - 31 MBStorytime With Managers is a collection of twenty minute conversations where Jennifer Tu finds answers to questions of interest to both established and budding leaders in technology fields. In Episode 26, Ale Paredes (@ale7714 on Twitter / ale7714 on LinkedIn / Latinas In Tech NYC) shares her team's experience as they find themselves not just unexpectedly remote during a pandemic, but also unexpectedly onboarding while unexpectedly remote during a pandemic. We talk about the role of docume...
Communicating Ideas with Sergio Rabiela
May 20, 2020 12:00 - 15 minutes - 21.7 MBStorytime With Managers is a collection of twenty minute conversations where Jennifer Tu finds answers to questions of interest to both established and budding leaders in technology fields. How do you communicate high-level or complex ideas to your team? How do you know if your ideas are getting across? When is repeating yourself too repetitive? In Episode 25, Sergio Rabiela (@spacechurro on Twitter) shares advice on communicating high-level ideas to your team. Show references: Marco R...
Burnout with Aneika and Anjuan Simmons
May 13, 2020 13:00 - 35 minutes - 48.3 MBStorytime With Managers is a collection of twenty minute conversations where Jennifer Tu finds answers to questions of interest to both established and budding leaders in technology fields. What is burnout? What does it look like in an individual, versus a team? What can you do to counter burnout? What do you do if your new team is already suffering from burnout, before you've had a chance to build relationships with anyone? In Episode 24, Professor Aneika Simmons (@aneika on Twitter) a...
Startup Hiring with Jennifer Kim
May 06, 2020 15:00 - 21 minutes - 26.9 MBStorytime With Managers is a collection of twenty minute conversations where Jennifer Tu finds answers to questions of interest to both established and budding leaders in technology fields. How do you win candidates when bigger companies can offer more money? What changes can you make to your interviews to get your candidates excited about your company? In Episode 23, Jennifer Kim (@jenistyping on Twitter) shares her expertise around hiring, and we dive into what's different about startup...
Going Remote with Damien Burke
April 29, 2020 13:00 - 18 minutes - 13.8 MBStorytime With Managers is a collection of twenty minute conversations where Jennifer Tu finds answers to questions of interest to both established and budding leaders in technology fields. In Episode 22, Damien Burke (https://www.talariasoftware.com/) shares his experience taking a team from fully in-office to fully remote. Tell us what you think of our podcast! We're on Twitter as @wecohere. ---- Our theme music is by Kevin MacLeod (CC-BY): www.orangefreesounds.com/electronic-ambient-...
Ally and Manager with Cris Concepcion
April 22, 2020 13:00 - 24 minutes - 34.5 MBStorytime With Managers is a collection of twenty minute conversations where Jennifer Tu finds answers to questions of interest to both established and budding leaders in technology fields. What does it mean to be an ally? what does it have to do with managing up? and how do you recover when you make a mistake as an ally? Episode 21 is the first of Season 4, and Cris Concepcion (crisconcepcion on LinkedIn) shares how managers can be better managers by being allies to their team. Side note...
A Moment Between Seasons
February 05, 2020 12:00 - 41 seconds - 645 KBWe've reached the end of Season 3! I'll be taking a few months off, both to line up guests for Season 4, and to spend time supporting my favorite local, state, and national candidates in the upcoming elections. If you have suggestions for topics or guests we should bring on in future seasons, or if you'd like to learn more about how you can get involved in affecting the world beyond work, send us a tweet - @wecohere Thanks again for listening, and we'll be back in a few short months <3
Changing Minds with Cecy Correa
January 22, 2020 16:48 - 23 minutes - 30 MBStorytime With Managers is a collection of twenty minute conversations where Jennifer Tu finds answers to questions of interest to both established and budding leaders in technology fields. In Episode 20, Cecy Correa (@cecycorrea on Twitter) draws on her training in marketing to share how to influence teams. Episode References: The Psychology of Fake News (And What Tech Can Do About It): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cVfYMxqZmI The Knowledge Illusion: https://www.worldcat.org/title/kn...
Mentoring Mentors with Tara Ellis
January 08, 2020 13:00 - 23 minutes - 29.1 MBStorytime With Managers is a collection of twenty minute conversations where Jennifer Tu finds answers to questions of interest to both established and budding leaders in technology fields. What should you expect from a new mentor? How do you help a new mentor be set up for success? In Episode 19, Tara Ellis (@maverick_mind on Twitter) shares how to support new mentors. Tell us what you think of our podcast! We're on Twitter as @wecohere. ---- Our theme music is by Kevin MacLeod (CC...
Changing Tech, Changing Teams with Kelsey Hightower
December 25, 2019 12:00 - 22 minutes - 32.1 MBStorytime With Managers is a collection of twenty minute conversations where Jennifer Tu finds answers to questions of interest to both established and budding leaders in technology fields. In Episode 18, Kelsey Hightower (@kelseyhightower on Twitter) talks about the impact of changing tech stacks on teams. Kelsey talks about introducing technical changes and shares brilliant ideas around: technical changes as an unexpected form of feedback, leading by deferring, gaining trust and meeti...
One on Ones with Nicole Sanchez
December 11, 2019 22:14 - 26 minutes - 33.1 MBStorytime With Managers is a collection of twenty minute conversations where Jennifer Tu finds answers to questions of interest to both established and budding leaders in technology fields. In Episode 17, Nicole Sanchez (@nmsanchez on Twitter, co-creator of the new 1-1 organizer app Digamo) shares detailed advice on 1-1s: what they are, how they help us, what we can learn from them. Show notes: Digamo, 1-1 organizer app Nicole’s management podcast is Impossible To Manage So You Want To ...
Speaking Up with Danielle Leong
November 27, 2019 04:54 - 20 minutes - 24.7 MBStorytime With Managers is a collection of twenty minute conversations where Jennifer Tu finds answers to questions of interest to both established and budding leaders in technology fields. In Episode 16, Danielle Leong (@tsunamino on Twitter) shares how to speak up to set culture as a manager, how to create safe teams, how to recognize teammates for the work they do, and more. Tell us what you think of our podcast! We're on Twitter as @wecohere. ---- Our theme music is by Kevin MacLeod...
Ethical People Management with Danilo Campos
November 13, 2019 13:00 - 26 minutes - 37.8 MBStorytime With Managers is a collection of twenty minute conversations where Jennifer Tu finds answers to questions of interest to both established and budding leaders in technology fields. In Episode 15, Danilo Campos (@_danilo on Twitter, co-creator of the new 1-1 organizer app Digamo) shares detailed advice for how to be an ethical people manager. We dig into a handful of edge cases and examples for how to do this. Tell us what you think of our podcast! We're on Twitter as @wecohere. ...
Enabling Change with Anthony Holloway
October 30, 2019 16:17 - 26 minutes - 31.4 MBStorytime With Managers is a collection of twenty minute conversations where Jennifer Tu finds answers to questions of interest to both established and budding leaders in technology fields. In Episode 14, Anthony Holloway (@techdirtywithme on Twitter / Anthony L Holloway on LinkedIn / deliriouslyraw on Instagram shares how to change the culture on your team in your engineering teams. Tell us what you think of our podcast! We're on Twitter as @wecohere. ---- Our theme music is by Kevin M...
Assessing for Growth with Mannah Kallon
October 16, 2019 12:00 - 18 minutes - 17.9 MBWelcome to Episode 13, the first episode in Season 3! Storytime With Managers is a collection of twenty minute conversations where Jennifer Tu finds answers to questions of interest to both established and budding leaders in technology fields. Before his software career began, Mannah Kallon (@mannahkallon on Twitter) worked as both a New York public school teacher and as a BBQ restauranteur. In Episode 13, we talk with Mannah about what he learned in those careers, and what he's learned t...
Temporary Teams with Miranda Wang
October 02, 2019 12:00 - 23 minutes - 41.2 MBStorytime With Managers is a collection of twenty minute conversations where Jennifer Tu finds answers to questions of interest to both established and budding leaders in technology fields. Miranda Wang (@ch0xi on Twitter or [email protected]) led a group of volunteers over a long weekend to create an open source project. She swiftly transformed a group of strangers into a tight-knit team. In Episode 12, Miranda shares how she quickly built a temporary team. We cover ideas and how-...
From Engineering To Product And Back Again with Denise Yu
September 18, 2019 12:00 - 22 minutes - 40.9 MBStorytime With Managers is a collection of twenty minute conversations where Jennifer Tu finds answers to questions of interest to both established and budding leaders in technology fields. In Episode 11, Denise Yu (@deniseyu21 on Twitter or check out her website http://www.deniseyu.io/) shares specific actions engineers can take to grow their effectiveness. A small sample of the ideas Denise shared: Schedule time to learn from people on other teams Bring a buddy to learning sessions wit...
Giving Feedback with Ambreen Hasan
September 04, 2019 15:07 - 17 minutes - 29.8 MBStorytime With Managers is a collection of twenty minute conversations where Jennifer Tu finds answers to questions of interest to both established and budding leaders in technology fields. Episode 10 covers how to give feedback, what to think about as you're giving feedback, and how to help others get better at giving feedback. All this expertise comes to you from Ambreen Hasan (@ambreenhasan on Twitter or ambreenh on Instagram). Ambreen started in tech as a Rails developer and has now t...
Managing Managers, Remotely with Juan Pablo Buriticá
August 07, 2019 12:00 - 26 minutes - 46.3 MBStorytime With Managers is a collection of twenty minute conversations where Jennifer Tu finds answers to questions of interest to both established and budding leaders in technology fields. Today's episode is a whopping twenty-six minutes because there was so much I wanted to keep asking my guest, Juan Pablo Buriticá (@buritica on Twitter). Juan Pablo Buriticá has been leading engineering organizations for the past decade. Prior to his engineering career, Juan worked as a chef and as a ph...
In Front Of A Crowd with Damien Burke
July 24, 2019 14:00 - 22 minutes - 39 MBStorytime With Managers is a collection of twenty minute conversations where Jennifer Tu finds answers to questions of interest for both established and budding leaders in technology fields. If you haven't experienced this already, someday you will. At some point in your career, you'll find yourself in front of a crowd. Maybe you'll be explaining your architectural vision for the next sprint, or maybe you'll be sharing the team reorg plan. Whatever it is, what can you do to influence the ...
Enabling Joy with Adarsh Pandit
July 10, 2019 14:00 - 24 minutes - 41.9 MBStorytime With Managers is a collection of twenty minute conversations where Jennifer Tu finds answers to questions of interest for both established and budding leaders in technology fields. I thought today's episode would be about leading when you don't have full authority, and it was -- but it was also a conversation about building trust. Adarsh Pandit (@adarshp on Twitter) explains his mission of enabling joy on any team he works with, and how building trust allows him to do that. Adar...
Stroopwafels And Trust with Annyce Davis
June 26, 2019 19:00 - 24 minutes - 40 MBStorytime With Managers is a collection of twenty minute conversations where Jennifer Tu finds answers to questions of interest for both established and budding leaders in technology fields. Today's episode covers building trust across differences with Annyce Davis (@brwngrldev on Twitter or annycedavis on LinkedIn). Annyce is a software developer and leader focused on Android and mobile development. She shares her mobile expertise through videos, blogs, and conference talks (ask her to p...
3 Minutes Between Seasons (yes, Seasons! plural!!)
May 29, 2019 11:00 - 3 minutes - 5.63 MBThis is a quick 3 minute update of what happens next to Storytime With Managers. ---- Transcript ---- Hi, I’m Jennifer Tu, and earlier this year, I set out on an experiment: a podcast microseries that became Storytime with Managers. I’ve been having a lot of fun learning from my guests in this experiment. If you’ve been listening to this series, it might not surprise you that there are 70 - that’s 7-0! - of you regular listeners. It was a big surprise to me though, and seeing those numbe...
Jobhunting As A Manager with Eddie Kay
May 22, 2019 12:00 - 18 minutes - 33.4 MBStorytime With Managers is a collection of twenty minute conversations where Jennifer Tu finds answers to questions of interest for both established and budding leaders in technology fields. In Episode 5, Eddie Kay (@ichthyos) shares his recent experience jobhunting as a manager. If you've never jobhunted as a manager, this episode is for you! Eddie shares answers to questions like "how do you schedule interviews on a manager's schedule?". Eddie works at Toast in Boston as a Senior Engin...
Coaching Towards Autonomy And Dreams with Bavani Kehoe
May 15, 2019 15:00 - 29 minutes - 53.5 MBStorytime With Managers is a collection of twenty minute conversations where Jennifer Tu finds answers to questions of interest for both established and budding leaders in technology fields. In Episode 4, Bavani Kehoe (@jenbavani) shares how she coaches her reports towards autonomy and guides them in following their dreams -- all while working part-time. We talk about situational leadership model, how to make office hours effective, and managing reports who are working outside your own exp...
Finding Your First Team with Raquel Vélez
May 08, 2019 15:00 - 28 minutes - 51 MBStorytime With Managers is a collection of twenty minute conversations where Jennifer Tu finds answers to questions of interest for both established and budding leaders in technology fields. Episode 3 follows Raquel Vélez (@rockbot on Twitter) in her management journey as she moved from lone-manager-at-tiny-startup to discovering her "first team" of engineering manager peers. Prior to management, Raquel was a JavaScript developer who eventually found her happy place learning to work with s...
Accepting Feedback with Emily Nakashima
May 01, 2019 12:00 - 22 minutes - 38.8 MBStorytime With Managers is a collection of twenty minute conversations where Jennifer Tu finds answers to questions of interest for both established and budding leaders in technology fields. Episode 2 covers the topic of accepting feedback with Emily Nakashima (@eanakashima on Twitter). Emily manages the engineering and design teams at a small developer tools startup called Honeycomb.io. Before Honeycomb, Emily worked at a string of developer tools companies and focused on frontend develo...
Managing Up with Marco Rogers
April 22, 2019 23:58 - 23 minutes - 41.7 MBStorytime With Managers is a collection of twenty minute conversations where Jennifer Tu finds answers to questions of interest for both established and budding leaders in technology fields. Episode 1 covers the topic of "managing up" with Marco Rogers (@polotek on Twitter). Marco was previously an engineering manager and director at companies like Yammer, Clover Health, and Lever, and is now happily writing code for Mode Analytics. We talk about what managing up means, Marco's journey to ...