Setting and Achieving Goals with your Team

With the start of 2019, many of us have chosen to make new years resolutions or intentions in our personal lives. Every year we try to improve ourselves bit by bit, from getting organized to getting healthy. Some of us are successful with the results, others are in the majority that only last a few weeks with these goals.

As team leads, we often set goals for our teams and hold them accountable to it. But how do we make sure that our teams are successful in achieving these goals? Or that these goals are the right ones for our teams? How do you know when a goal needs to change?

We have a great panel of leads from Shopify and League to discuss the techniques they use to help teams set and achieve their goals. It will be a discussion panel with an open Q&A at the end. If you have any questions that you'd like them to ask, please reply in the event!

About the Panelists

Raymond Mendoza
Director of Engineering, League
Raymond leads cloud infrastructure, architecture, and information technology. Raymond started his career at Amazon where he helped build the core platform for Kindle, Video, and Music services. After a couple of years at BlackBerry, Raymond helped build the Kijiji team in Toronto where he played various roles such as senior engineer, product manager, and CTO. He helped established the Objective and Key Results (OKR) process. Raymond is also a part-time teacher at Seneca, competitive trail and obstacle racer, and father of two kids.

Nataliya Becker
Senior Product Manager, League.
Nataliya leads the development of the member experience with the goal of making benefits easy and leading better health outcomes for employees. Prior to League, she oversaw a product management team at Capital One Canada managing online banking web platform and onboarding experience for credit card customers. Nataliya’s background is in business & data analytics, and she has held multiple leadership roles in managing cross-functional teams. Nataliya contributes to Toronto Product community by being a chapter lead for Women in Product Toronto.

Amy Thibodeau
Director of UX (Platform Line), Shopify
Amy Thibodeau is the Director of User Experience for Shopify’s Platform and UX Operation teams. In her role she leads multidisciplinary teams of designers, researchers and content strategists to create great experience for Shopify merchants and partners. Amy comes from a content strategy background and was an early member of Facebook Design’s content strategy team. She has always championed the role of language in building clear, human interfaces.

Phiroze Noble
Web Development Lead, Shopify
Fio has spent 8 years in the digital industry pushing not only his own boundaries but the boundaries of the technology that we all use. Prior to working at Shopify he was a Team Lead at Jibestream, an indoor GIS provider, and championed the early adoption of modern web practices.

About this meetup

Leading & managing teams of software engineers can be challenging. This meetup is for technical leaders of all experience levels to connect, share stories and learn from each other. Topics include all of the typical Team Lead duties such as recruiting talent, team building, coaching, delegating, scaling technical groups, managing projects, etc.

Meetups are catered, start with a presentation from a domain expert and continue with lots of interesting conversations with your peers.