Archive - The Caring Techie Newsletter

Lessons from Projects That Didn’t See the Light of Day

How can engineering help prevent some of these failures

Oct 15 •

5 Tips for Staying Kind, Calm, and Open During Difficult Conversations

Lessons in emotional intelligence - strengthening your emotional self-management skills

Oct 1 •

September 2024

How to Cultivate Clarity and Kindness in Your Engineering Team

Two essential ingredients for high-performing teams

Sep 24 •

How to Pick Your Battles: A Simple Framework for Addressing Issues at Work

Not all issues are made the same, so how can you use kindness to determine which issues are worth confronting and which aren't?

Sep 18 •

Why Healthy Confrontation Should Be Seen as an Act of Kindness

And how to get more comfortable with conflict if you're non-confrontational

Sep 11 •

August 2024

Are You Truly Kind, or Just Being Nice?

Choose kindness if you want you and your team to grow, and not just get along

Aug 27 •

How Much Appreciation Do You Show Your Team?

A guide for expressing recognition at work

Aug 13 •

8 Common Meeting Pitfalls and What You Can Do to Avoid Them

I can't count the number of times I've been in meetings thinking, "I can't wait to get back to real work." Meetings often feel like the bane of a…

Aug 6 •

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July 2024

Answering “Tell Me About Yourself” in an Interview

Take your answer from meh to wow by avoiding these common pitfalls

Jul 30 •

The Wrong and Right Way to Deliver Bad News to Your Manager

Breaking bad news to your manager can feel like dropping a bomb. If you get it wrong, it can blow up in your face and make things worse. But if you get…

Jul 22 •

7 Mindsets That Are Slowing Down Your Career Growth

And how to reframe them into empowering alternatives

Jul 15 •

June 2024

It's Not Nagging: Effective Communication is Deliberately Redundant

“I love repeating myself” – said nobody ever. When asked to repeat ourselves, we seem to fall on a spectrum from “I don’t like it” to “I dread it so…

Jun 18 •

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