Every Lead, be that lead dev or team lead, is responsible for growing people around them. We help them grow with various techniques - demonstrating best practices, doing code reviews, programming together in pairs and so on.

However, have you thought about how can we help pour people grow as people? How do they acquire essential soft skills or move up on the career ladder?

I believe that mentoring and coaching are the key techniques every Lead should know and use in their daily life. Help junior developer with relevant advice. Ask Senior QA deep open questions to find out their motivation. These are the things you can do in your day to day job to help people around you become better.

In this talk I will cover key differences between mentoring and coaching, when can we use them and how you can become better at this.