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Lara Callender Hogan

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Lara Hogan’s blog posts on management, giving talks, and inclusion work.

Engineering management / careers

’15’20’25
Posts
159 from 7 Dec 2012 to 22 Jun 2026
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monthly (8 in the last year)
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2026 8

  1. Find a new role - worksheet
  2. Find a new role - worksheet
  3. Why can't they just...? Revisited
  4. Why can't they just...? Revisited
  5. AI 'aha' team meetings
  6. AI 'aha' team meetings
  7. Creating momentum when an employee is stuck
  8. Creating momentum when an employee is stuck

2023 14

  1. Finding a buddy when you’re a team of one
  2. Finding a buddy when you’re a team of one
  3. How to make hard decisions: even/over statements
  4. How to make hard decisions: even/over statements
  5. Be a thermostat, not a thermometer
  6. Be a thermostat, not a thermometer
  7. Recognition and rewards at work
  8. Recognition and rewards at work
  9. How to announce organizational change in your first 90 days
  10. Next »
  11. How to announce organizational change in your first 90 days
  12. 30-60 days in a new leadership role: run experiments for change
  13. 30-60 days in a new leadership role: run experiments for change
  14. How to spend your first 30 days in a new senior-level role

2022 19

  1. Six creative ways to use coaching questions
  2. Manage up without getting (too) salty about it
  3. “Should I create a Performance Improvement Plan for my direct report?”
  4. Resources for navigating complex leadership work
  5. What to do when a beloved employee quits
  6. Next »
  7. Happy Birthday To My 1:1 Questions!
  8. How to get helpful, actionable feedback from your colleagues
  9. What to do when your feedback doesn't land
  10. Resources for leading through crises
  11. How to gather helpful insight from your peers
  12. When your coaching questions freak someone out
  13. The dreaded reorg
  14. Delegation is an art, not a science
  15. Next »
  16. How to announce promotions fairly
  17. Eisenhower matrix
  18. Jean, Jorts, and tough feedback
  19. Help your teammates navigate moments of self-doubt

2021 26

  1. Don't soften feedback.
  2. You can be directive without being a jerk
  3. Finding the right kind of opportunities for your sponsee
  4. My team is going in circles. Help!
  5. Next »
  6. Don't worry, you’re not wasting your mentor’s time.
  7. Demystifying Public Speaking: Now Online For Free!
  8. Help Your Colleagues Take Real Time Off By Answering These Six Questions
  9. Why 'bring solutions not problems' doesn’t work
  10. How To Share Complex Company News With Your Team And Build Trust
  11. Borrowing lines from great leaders around you
  12. How To Evaluate Your Leadership Impact On A Performance Review
  13. What to do when your employees are in crisis mode
  14. Next »
  15. The art of the tick tock doc
  16. Updated! The New Manager Care Package
  17. We need to talk about your Q3 roadmap
  18. What if you dread 1:1s with a direct report?
  19. How I’ve improved my remote presentation setup
  20. Becoming A Manager In 2021
  21. Handling the Emotional Weight of 1:1s
  22. Set future performance reviews up for success now
  23. Next »
  24. The skill of naming what’s happening in the room
  25. Performance reviews should be unsurprising, fair, and motivating
  26. Tough love for managers who need to give feedback

2020 16

  1. How 2020 has shaped you as a leader
  2. How to say no right now
  3. Managers: what do you do when your teammate shares their grief?
  4. Now Live: The Complete Demystifying Management Program Digital Course
  5. What happens if you become a director without being a manager first?
  6. Next »
  7. How to be a sponsor when you're a developer
  8. Recognize your management wins
  9. Four steps to identifying your new role
  10. How to learn about someone's core needs
  11. Easy check-in questions for your 1:1s during times of crisis
  12. 3 steps for leaders to take in emergencies
  13. Creating predictability and stability in times of rapid change
  14. How to manage up effectively
  15. last post
  16. Next »

2019 15

  1. Socially visible progress
  2. On direction 'versus' empowerment
  3. How to offer challenges to your teammates
  4. Introducing: New Manager Care Packages
  5. Interviewing at senior levels
  6. managing at different levels
  7. My 3 favorite types of manager meetings
  8. Next »
  9. Order Now: Resilient Management book
  10. Communicating big news to your team
  11. A Tiny, Powerful Question for Better Feedback
  12. Actively listening
  13. Roleplaying Difficult Conversations
  14. It's performance review season!
  15. Improving Cross-Functional Relationships

2018 19

  1. Tools for Introspection
  2. Next »
  3. Coaching Reflections
  4. Fairness and management
  5. Advice for a new executive
  6. Acknowledging When You Mess Up
  7. Week in Review Leadership Comms
  8. Tips for Hiring Managers
  9. Feedback Equation
  10. Leadership Style Colors
  11. Next »
  12. How to Facilitate a Working Group Meeting
  13. How to Organize a Working Group
  14. Meetup Architecture Principles
  15. Onsite Interview Loop Template
  16. Team Leader Venn Diagram
  17. Manager Energy Drain
  18. Dealing with your wage gap
  19. Manager Voltron

2017 12

  1. desk moves
  2. Next »
  3. Etsy's Charter of Mindful Communication
  4. Tracking compensation and promotion inequity
  5. Manager handoffs
  6. Etsy Lessons
  7. What does sponsorship look like?
  8. post I first wrote in 2017
  9. Managering through terrible times
  10. Next »
  11. Setting Expectations as a Manager
  12. On Better Meetings

2016 4

  1. Work at different management levels
  2. Questions for our first 1:1
  3. Coding a book
  4. 2014 and 2015

2015 16

  1. Transitioning to meta-management
  2. Finding support as a new senior (woman) leader
  3. Next »
  4. Support women-authored tech books
  5. Exit-Voice Dynamics in the Tech Industry: How women in tech have had it up to here with this nonsense
  6. Non-linear career trajectories
  7. Celebrating our achievements
  8. On changing your name
  9. written about before
  10. Giving Presentation Feedback
  11. Mean time to 'women in tech'
  12. Next »
  13. Behind every great woman
  14. On having a totally reasonable amount of self-confidence
  15. Working in Tech with a Chronic Illness
  16. On Quitting

2014 7

  1. published a blog post
  2. Modeling advocacy
  3. Quantifying the book writing process: my first draft
  4. On unsolicited criticism
  5. Next »
  6. My presentation workflow and challenges
  7. Live tweeting from Keynote

2013 2

  1. We’re all equally drenched
  2. There’s nothing “pink” about interviews at Etsy

2012 1

  1. Mobile Web at Etsy