🤝 Leadership principles

🤝 Leadership principles

Be transparent

Being a Design Lead and a Design Manager means to be involved in lots of projects, conversations, and sometimes tricky situations.

Thus it's important to make sure you have a common language with colleagues of all different levels and domains. You're aligned on the type of collaboration you have with them, and what kind of support you can expect from each other.

Be strategic

  • Ask Why's

  • Think of what can go wrong

  • Assess possible risks

  • Always have a Plan B, at least a high-level one

  • Know how to measure success

  • Learn from the failures

Be timely

As much as it is important to timely raise concerns and possible issues in order to deliver projects in the best possible way, it's just as important to timely recognise a great job and provide a positive feedback to you team!

Be egoless

Management role is rarely about the manager, but often about how manager enables others in their work, supporting their personal development, and celebrating their success.

Right delegation creates right opportunity for someone to grow.

Be realistic

While thinking big and setting ambitious product goals, it's important to be realistic on how to achieve them. This requires a good understanding of the business strategy, customers needs, and technical possibilities.

And here, the importance of all the principles above becomes even more evident, as it's all about the ability to build trust and effective collaboration with others.

Be honest

Always admit your own failures, reflect on them, and share with the team what could be done differently in order to avoid them.

Be honest about the job that needs to be done. Not every project is a fun to work on, but every project is there for a reason, and therefore is important. Find a way to motivate your team to work on what seems to be boring stuff. For example, specify the skills they'll be able to improve working on that super boring project everyone is trying to avoid.

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