What you'll learn

Your senior engineer tells you the migration takes six weeks. Is that true? You don't know. You can't know. Most new technical managers handle that moment badly. Either they sign off on everything they can't judge, or they hover over everything they can. Both cost you the team. In this course, Leading Technical Professionals, you'll learn to lead people whose technical depth goes beyond your own without becoming a rubber stamp or a micromanager. First, you'll learn how trust actually works: who has earned your trust, on which topics, and how people earn more room or less. Next, you'll learn how to judge work you couldn't do yourself, by asking for the reasoning behind it and checking against reality instead of taking the report's word for it. Finally, you'll learn which decisions stay yours no matter who knows more, how to handle being wrong in front of your own team, and how to stand behind a number your team gave you and you couldn't verify. When you're finished with this course, you'll be able to answer for work you don't personally do, and be the manager whose word holds in both directions.