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Re:Soft Skills in Engineering Leadership by username90 on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @01:33PM (#26169797)
Here is a fourth:

4. Do you delegate high visibility tasks?

Managers who don't do this work hard to hog all the glory, spend all their time in meetings with other managers or presenting to higher level people etc. It isn't good for them nor their reports, by not growing the reports skills they have a hard time getting to the next level as a manager. Also they create a situation where they are the bus factor 1, which is problematic in itself.

Re:Soft Skills in Engineering Leadership by jdgiese on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @02:10PM (#26170217)
4 seems like it is a particular instance of 2
Re:Soft Skills in Engineering Leadership by rmwaite on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @04:07PM (#26171791)
I’d say in many cases it could also be 1.
Re:Soft Skills in Engineering Leadership by DarkByte on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @07:17PM (#26173740)
I agree. I consider delegation of high value or visibility tasks as a combination of 1 and 2. Regardless I recognize it as being very important overall.
Re:Soft Skills in Engineering Leadership by seekitabroad on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @03:57PM (#26171670)
A lot of times, the trouble is that it's challenging to say no or delegate in the first place. We found that this works for us internally for helping to drive delegation: https://darja-bunch.medium.com/an-engineers-guide-to-saying-...