# Miguel Canto's Manager Readme

**Engineering Manager at Backbase**

# What is this for

This is for you to get to know me better. To understand a little bit more about how I think, what I value, or how I work.

# My role

Being an Engineering Manager is all about making a team successful, happy and working on things that are most important to improve our product and business. 

As part of the role, I have to make sure you are both successful and happy. I want to improve your technical skills, grow your career and believe in our company and team's mission.

Also I'm here to make sure our team is getting what we need from other teams, and that other teams are getting what they need from us.

# What do I value most?

Above all, I value my relationships with my teams, I believe people are the most important part of any successful organization and support this through consistently asking about what teams or team members need, identifying career goals and providing coaching to achieve them.

# My Expectations

Here is what I expect from everyone I work with:

- Tell me the truth. Don't omit anything (This leads to trust!)
- Master your profession. Be passionate about what you do.
- Meet your commitments. Do what you yourself said you will do.

# 1:1s

One-on-ones are  **your**  time and I don't expect any technical talk. I will probably have some things to discuss with you, but these are your opportunities to let me know how you're doing, what you need, what you wish could be different, how you feel about our team and your teammates, what your career goals are... etc. These are for the conversations you might not necessarily have with me when we're sitting at our desks amongst coworkers. If you'd like to give me a brief status update on things you're working on, that is fine with me, but those are generally better-suited to a quick chat or a Slack message while I'm at my desk.

 
**# Career Development**
 

**Your career is yours. I will coach, I will offer feedback.I will provide you with an outside perspective. You may know where you want to be, but when you’re living it in the moment, it can be hard to see if and where there’s a gap.I will partner with you to line up the opportunities needed for the growth you are targeting. But at the end of the day, it’s your career. You set your goals. You set your priorities. You determine whether you make the time to get there.**

 

 
**# Leadership Model**
 

**I truly believe that leadership model should be situational, every team member has different needs, that's why it should be situational.**

 

 
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