The Elevators Podcast: Recent Episodes
Pete Wieckowski, Piotr Zagorowski
The podcast about technical leadership, career growth, self-development, time, and efficiency hacks.
Join Pit and Pete as they discuss what should be important to you, challenges with covid, mindfulness, wellbeing, and mental health.
This was an organic discussion that we had between ourselves and we decided to share our observations of our and our friends' worlds with you today.
We hope that this resonates with you and may help you look at your real priorities to drive you to get what you deserve and wish to attain.
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As always, you can follow @theelevatorsfm, @PiotrZagorowski, and @PeteWieckowski on Twitter
And our website is here: The Elevators
Do you remember when you made the transition from technical leader to technical people leader? Do you remember your challenges and the “identity crisis”? Join Pit and Pete as they discuss their transition from TL to people leaders and some of the things that they experience along the way. In this episode, we chat about: * Being in a new role. Slowing down to speed up, and learning * Letting your team learn at their pace, you may do things faster now, but how does that help them? * Knowing your words now carry a different weight with the team you are leading, choose your words wisely. * Relationship management: You have a new peer group, build an maintain those new relationships, and have 1:1’s with your new peers * Expectation management: Do you need to be in a meeting? What is the expected outcome? * Continue to learn, read books, talk to people, have mentors; everyone is a leader, and continue your personal and professional development.
Books/Readings that helped us:
- Jocko Willink and Leif Babin: Extreme Ownership, The Dichotomy of Leadership, Leadership Strategy and Tactics: Field Manual
- Tools of Titans - Tim Ferris
- Heroic Leadership - Chris Lowney
- Atomic Habits - James Clear
As always, you can follow @theelevatorsfm, @PiotrZagorowski, and @PeteWieckowski on Twitter
And our website is here: The Elevators
Join Pit and Pete as they discuss what feedback means to them and how to deliver it to others.
Receiving feedback is a positive thing that can help you and others grow both personally and professionally.
Use the trick of using SMART feedback: Simple, Measurable, Actionable, Realistic, and Time-Bound.
As always, we hope you enjoy this podcast, learn from it, and give us feedback as well.
In this episode, Pete and Pit discuss the power of the retrospective mindset and how it can help you in both your personal and professional life.
In this episode, you will hear:
- The power of retrospective mindset
- The advantage of planning your year ahead
- What is the wheel of life and why it should be important to you
- Living more intentionally
Who are The Elevators?
Listen to Pit and Pete as they discuss what got them into computers, their IT careers, leadership, and passions.
In this episode you will hear:
- Pete and Pit’s first computers
- Entering into the IT field
- Memorable moments in career
- Pit’s unforgettable story about a bomb in the hospital
- Pete’s struggle of experiencing a harsh winter in a datacenter
- Transition to leadership
- Passions
- Books
- Heroic Leadership
- The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
