Lead Time Chats

Kate Heddleston on Managing Burnout on your Team

Episode Summary

In this episode of Lead Time Chats, Jean Hsu, VP of Engineering at Range, chats with Kate Heddleston, Senior Engineering Manager at Samsara, about how to manage burnout on your engineering team.

Episode Notes

In this episode of Lead Time Chats, Jean Hsu, VP of Engineering at Range, chats with Kate Heddleston, Senior Engineering Manager at Samsara, about how to manage burnout on your engineering team.

Kate and Jean discuss:

• What is burnout, and what does it look like in its early stages
• How to talk to teammates about activities that energizes or drains them, to mitigate or relieve burnout
• Giving team members permission to work flexibly and create effective conditions for creative work
• Leveraging other factors to engineering speed (not just hours worked)