{"podcast":{"title":"Leman Tech Leadership Podcast","slug":"leman-tech-leadership-podcast-7045357","podcast_index_feed_id":7045357,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/6343272/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/leman-tech-leadership-podcast--6343272","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/6e916786180afeb919935cb2e31f561f.jpg","author":"Aleksandra Lemańska","episode_count":166,"summary":"Leman Tech Leadership Podcast Welcome to the Leman Tech Leadership Podcast, your ultimate guide to developing exceptional tech leadership skills. Whether you're a seasoned tech leader or just stepping into a managerial role, this podcast is designed to provide you with actionable insights and best practices to create a thriving work environment that people won't want to leave. Learn how to do it with host Aleksandra Lemańska, founder of LemanSkills, speaker, PCM leadership mentor and facilitator that works with hundreds of leaders each year to elevate their potential into the next level. Join Alex as she delves deep into the secrets of effective leadership, from mastering essential tools to implementing cutting-edge techniques. Each episode brings you invaluable knowledge, practical advice, or unique perspectives through engaging interviews with leaders that have their experiences and lessons to share. Discover the dos and don’ts of tech leadership, learn about the habits that drive success, and gather strategies to foster a motivated and engaged team. Follow Alex @aleksandralemanska on LinkedIn for more inspiration and actions that you can take as a transformational leader. 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Then you got promoted — and suddenly the skills that made you great started working against you. In this episode, your host, Aleksandra Lemańska, breaks down the most common and most costly transition in tech: moving from expert individual contributor to people leader, and why so many technically brilliant professionals struggle to make that shift. You can't debug a human relationship. You can't refactor someone's motivation. You can't unit-test trust. These aren't philosophical observations — they're the exact gaps that explain why 86% of employees say poor communication causes workplace failures, and why 44% of tech professionals miss deadlines because of unclear communication. The problem isn't a lack of technical skill. It's that technical thinking, applied to people problems, consistently produces the wrong output. Alex walks through Mike's story — the best developer on the team, now drowning in his second week as Team Lead — to make the stakes concrete. Then she introduces the three things the CQ Leadership Method gives you that no amount of technical expertise can replace: a pattern recognition system for human behavior through PCM, a contracting approach that eliminates ambiguous agreements before they become conflicts, and the Wheel of Conflict framework that helps you diagnose what's actually broken instead of fighting the same team dysfunction on a loop. ✉︎ FOLLOW ME ON: ⤵︎ LinkedIn: @aleksandralemanska TikTok: @aleksandra_lemanska X: @lemanskills Startup Community Poznan: @startup-community-poznan-scp www.lemanskills.com Join Leadership Pulse! https://lemanskills.com/pulse/","meta_description":"▶︎ #139 | You Can't Debug a Human: Why Your Developer Skills Are Failing You as a Leader You were exceptional at your job. 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