How To Drive Meetings - by Ryan Peterman
👋 Hi, this is Ryan with this week’s newsletter. I write about software engineering, big tech/startups, and career growth. Thank you for your readership, we hit 44,000 readers this week 🙏 🎉 This week, I’m writing about how to drive meetings which is a necessary skill to grow to Senior (L5). If you find the post helpful, please share it with your friends and coworkers. Enjoy! Driving meetings is a critical skill for growing to Senior (L5). It’s a baseline expectation to have team-level influence and lead projects of multiple engineers. It’s not taught anywhere though. After driving hundreds of meetings, I’ve summarized what I learned so you can develop this skill faster. Every engineer knows that meetings can be terrible for productivity. They disrupt your focus time and waste time on context switching. Many meetings can be replaced with async discussions. Meetings do have their place though. They are more efficient if you need to have back-and-forth discussions. Imagine how slow it’d
How To Drive Meetings A necessary skill for growth to Senior Ryan Peterman Jan 19, 2024 158 15 13 Share 👋 Hi, this is Ryan with this week’s newsletter. I write about software engineering, big tech/startups, and career growth. Thank you for your readership, we hit 44,000 readers this week 🙏 🎉 This week, I’m writing about how to drive meetings which is a necessary skill to grow to Senior (L5). If you find the post helpful, please share it with your friends and coworkers. Enjoy! Driving meetings is a critical skill for growing to Senior (L5). It’s a baseline expectation to have team-level infl
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