How to scale yourself as a first-time leader | Poornima Vijayashanker |

When you're a first-time leader it's hard to transition from being a problem solver to leading a team to solve problems. It's often tempting to step in and solve problems for your team. However, the more often you step-in, you end up stripping your team's autonomy and neglecting your own work. Ultimately, this makes it hard to scale yourself.
Instead, you need to learn how to train your teammates, delegate problems to them, trust they'll be able to resolve them, and develop an intuition for knowing when it's appropriate to step in and help solve a problem.
In this talk, Poornima Vijayashanker will be sharing a framework for scaling yourself and building a self-sufficient team.
About Poornima Vijayashanker
For more than a decade, Poornima Vijayashanker has led teams through recruiting, onboarding, retaining technical talent, and going from idea to shipping product to successfully exiting.
She is currently the founder of Femgineer. Previously, Poornima was an entrepreneur-in-residence at 500 Startups, a mentor-in-residence at Techstars, a lecturer at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering, and the founding engineer at Mint.com from its prototype to acquisition in 2009. She has also authored: How To Transform Your Ideas Into Software Products and co-authored: Present! A Techie's Guide To Public Speaking, given a TEDx talk, and hosts Build a weekly web show.
Poornima holds degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science from Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering.
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[@lesialametta371]

Great speech!

[@makeupfavs8193]

Awesome presentation

[@alekseykarpenko2681]

6-12 Months for knowing your team in some cases may be insanely high

[@isurukdniss]

Great talk

[@richardcopperwaite4333]

"You need to spend 6-12 months getting to know the people on your team so you can then coach and mentor them"
But what if your project only lasts 6-12 months, and then your team gets shuffled around?