In this episode PM Power colleagues, J Veeraraaghavan (JV) & Sivaguru are in conversation as JV shares his career journey during the mid-career days, when he moved from one leadership role to another including
- Getting the right breaks through his career
- Managing projects, taking up middle managerial roles and moving into executive management
- Getting exposed to and experience in roadmap planning for products
- Curbing the tendency to jump in and act when team members were facing challenges, rather than taking an approach of helping them
- What helped him get over this:
- Emotional intelligence
- Being aware of self and being empathetic and sensing how others feel
- Having a technical background
- In addition, approachability and ability to guide
- On dealing with managers, when he took on larger responsibilities
- How he overcame the sudden feeling that one had nothing to do, as a manager, while being responsible overall
- His first experience in managing a program and what he learnt from not having prior experience
- What he realized by inadvertently stepping into the shoes of the project manager and realizing the impact it had on the project manager
- His thoughts on luck v/s hard work for a successful manager
- Four dimensions of success for a middle manager - Engineering excellence; Delivery oversight; Self leadership; Coaching skills
- How executive leadership can enable middle managers to go beyond performance reviews
- Establishing communities of practice to help middle managers
- His take on managing time
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