This document discusses leadership strategies for attracting and retaining tech talent. It emphasizes the importance of trust, delegation, communication through listening and transparent conversations. It warns against assumptions, empty promises, and exclusive decision making, and advocates for trial and error, teamwork, and providing opportunities through structured conversations. The document questions when leadership in tech will change and how leaders can prioritize, embrace change, and lead through change without fear.

1. Leadership in Tech Talent
Attraction and Retention
More important than ever…
By Anna Derinova-Hartmann

2. Leadership…Always
Experience
Trust and delegation
Talking with
Listening to
Motivating, enabling and caring
Strategic Decision making

3. Leadership Now
Trust + delegation
“Con-versation”
Agility and flexibility
Transformation
Inclusivity and diversity

4. Tech Talent Attraction
Relationship
Networking and Presence
Impact
Strategy and planning
Conversation: transparency and honesty
Talent diversity and inclusion

5. Watch Out #1
“% Marathon”
“Title prison”
Action plans dependency
Monologues
Assumptions and vagueness in communication
“Back to normal”

6. Talent Retention
A plan & Openness to change
Open conversation
Lateral leadership
Professional development
Recognition and appreciation
Inclusion

7. Watch Out #2
Empty promises
Information vacuum
Hierarchy in communication
Exclusive top-down decision making
“Thick forehead”

8. How to?
Trial and error
Team work
Experiments
Conversations
Framework + tools + opportunities

9. What if...
Acceleration and Incubation
No to Profiling
Structured and purposeful conversation
Decision making on the go
No to background and gender, yes to
experience and personality

10. Questions
Will it ever change?
What is new normal?
What is normal?
How to prioritize?
How not to be afraid of change?
How to be change?

11. Questions?