A software engineering team is made of professionals from different levels of expertise and onboarding junior profiles is critical for the continuity of your team and your company. How can we do this?
Great post Marcos. Super important to start by understanding the other person's motivations and build that relationship in 1:1s.
Even if the junior profile is at the surface level with wanting to learn some particular technology, peeling the layers of the onion one can see where they set themselves in the spectrums such as:
- "fear of failure" vs. "excitement of success"
- "direct and fast negative feedback" vs. "indirect and sugarcoated negative feedback"
...
We usually treat everyone as we like being treated, but we have to speak our audience's language. Cultural and personal backgrounds create radically different meanings of the same message.
Great post Marcos. Super important to start by understanding the other person's motivations and build that relationship in 1:1s.
Even if the junior profile is at the surface level with wanting to learn some particular technology, peeling the layers of the onion one can see where they set themselves in the spectrums such as:
- "fear of failure" vs. "excitement of success"
- "direct and fast negative feedback" vs. "indirect and sugarcoated negative feedback"
...
We usually treat everyone as we like being treated, but we have to speak our audience's language. Cultural and personal backgrounds create radically different meanings of the same message.
Thanks Fran!! Yes, really important about speaking our audience language!