Sprints
Join fellow enrich members in a four-part guided workshop series to work through a challenging leadership topic. Members will meet in 90-minute sessions to reflect, share ideas, and get feedback from peers on topics like personal branding for executive presence, clarifying and operationalizing your career objectives, engaging and leveraging your network, etc. See below for program descriptions and registration links.
What is a sprint?
An enrich sprint is a four-part guided workshop series on a challenging leadership topic. Members will meet in small groups with 6-8 peers each week for 90-minutes across a four week span to investigate various frameworks and models for personal and professional growth.
The goals of an enrich sprint are:
Build Community: we want you to know that the other members in your sprint are incredible resources for your personal and professional growth
Foster a Growth Mindset: we want you to believe that you can improve and build confidence through tangible progress on your goals
Encourage Deliberate Practice: we want you to think critically about what you are doing and how you are doing it, using practice to move forward boldly with intention
Current Sprint Topics:
Performance Management
The upcoming series kicks off on August 28th from 12-1:30pm PT: register here!
Whether you are managing individuals, teams, orgs, or the whole company, you’ve likely discovered that there is an art and a science to creating and managing a high-performance culture. Through dialog with your peers and perspectives of experts, this sprint will focus on the science of performance reviews and feedback processes, leveling frameworks, rubrics and calibrating across teams for consistency and clarity, and compensation benchmarking. This sprint will also cover the art of hypothesis-based coaching, delivering feedback, and managing high and low performers.
In this sprint, you will:
establish formal and informal feedback cycles
develop rubrics for measuring performance
create a compensation strategy with a clear path through career levels
manage high and low performers effectively
Advancing Your Career
The upcoming series kicks off on September 17th from 11:30-1pm PT: register here!
Whether you find yourself between jobs, stuck in a professional rut, or wanting to be proactive in your career advancement, navigating those challenges alone can be daunting. Together with other tech leaders, you will be challenged to clarify your objectives, create strategies you can test, and take action toward leveraging your network.
In this sprint, you will:
draft a clear, concise, and compelling career objective
audit your network for gaps and opportunities
operationalize your networking and craft clear asks for consistent results
hear how your peers think about their career progression
Personal Branding & Executive Presence
The upcoming series kicks off on October 16th from 12-1:30pm PT: register here!
From managers to seasoned executives, solopreneurs to fractional employees, personal branding is a useful tool to distinguish yourself in the workplace. A powerful personal brand establishes your executive presence and communicates what potential clients, colleagues, and partners can expect when they choose to work with you.
In this sprint, you will:
define your professional promise
craft your personal brand statement
build your brand story and toolkit
hear how your peers approach their own personal brand
Engineering Org Design
The upcoming series kicks off on October 24th from 9-10:30am PT: register here!
While designing your engineering org structure is necessary for company growth, the path towards successfully crafting and implementing it is not always obvious. In fact, it seldom is. You'll hear lessons learned from your peers, learn new frameworks, and receive feedback on your thinking from other seasoned professionals in the tech industry. Like all learning sprints, the aim is to inspire clarity of vision, and confidence in action.
In this sprint, you will:
explore various principles of org design
evaluate the advantages of organizing by business or function
outline constraints and dependencies between teams
learn from your peers on how they approach org design
Topics coming soon:
Stakeholder Management - kicking off September 25th
AI - kicking off October 1st
A note about your commitment: this is a progressive sprint where each session builds on the next. Your attendance at each session will be important for both you personally and the other members of the group. Because seats are limited, we kindly ask that if you commit to these dates, you do whatever is reasonably possible to protect and defend this time on your calendar (barring any emergencies that may arise).