3 Leadership Styles for a Productive Engineering Team: Shawn Fair (Leadership Coach, CEO, Fair Consulting Group)

Master these 3 leadership styles to build an amazing engineering team and maximize your own potential as well. In this interview with Shawn Fair, you'll learn how, when, and why to use the democratic, autocratic, and free rein leadership styles for optimal results. In this interview we're covering: The 3 base leadership styles Determine the best leadership style for your developer team How to train yourself to always find the right leadership style Common mistakes How the leadership styles improve team performance and employee retention 5 core leadership attributes Bonus advice Excerpt from the interview: "If you demonstrate both the three leadership styles and the five critical leadership attributes, your people will be more productive and more likely to stick around. If you become a leader doing all this to meet the needs of every individual working for you, you’re a fair boss and a rare commodity. You'll find one or two of those leaders in your lifetime in corporate America." Click here to read the full interview! (https://codingsans.com/blog/leadership-styles)

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