Become an Effective Software Engineering Manager

Remember: You Are Not a Therapist

As a diligent, caring manager who is excellent at listening, you may experience your one-to-one sessions turning into therapy sessions for your staff. Although this may be helpful, this isn’t something that you’re trained in, nor are issues that belong in therapy sessions best placed to be part of your one-to-one meetings. As much as you may want to help, this isn’t your area of expertise and you owe it to your staff to find them better support.

If you feel that your staff primarily use your sessions to vent with no solutions proposed, or to talk about in-depth personal issues that aren’t related to work, or if you begin to notice signs that you think that your staff are going through difficult times or may ...