As a team leader, your public speaking elevates not just you, but your entire team around you, too. The more you talk about your team’s work, the more you’ll elevate their careers along with yours. As you make progress on the ladder, your leaders will also increasingly rely on you for painting a picture about what’s working well and what’s not so that they can keep making progress on their organization.
In 2019, I was presenting at an internal conference for Women in Site Reliability Engineering, my favorite of any I ever attended. I was giving a talk on a new approach to scaling SRE that my team was trying out, why it was a bit of a risk, and why we thought it would still work. The talk was great for me as a tech lead: it forced me to be able to communicate why we were doing what we were doing, what the success criteria would be, and how we were learning from past teams’ attempts. As I prepared for the talk, I honed my team’s roadmap and strategy as my brain was stepping through the details and anticipating reasonable audience questions, wanting to make a good impression.
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