How to Manage People Who Used to ...

How to Manage People Who Used to Be Your Peers

From Code to People: The New Engineering Manager's Podcast por TJ Walker
E6
19 ago 2026
04:00

Notas del episodio

How to Manage People Who Used to Be Your Peers addresses one of the most uncomfortable challenges facing a newly promoted engineering manager.

On Friday, you were a teammate. On Monday, you may be responsible for performance feedback, priorities, compensation recommendations, and difficult decisions involving the same people. Pretending that nothing has changed can create confusion, resentment, and mistrust.

This episode explains how to acknowledge the new relationship directly, remain warm without becoming overly familiar, avoid sudden coldness, handle a colleague who wanted the same promotion, and demonstrate visible fairness across the team.

How to Manage People Who Used to Be Your Peers is part of From Code to People: The New Engineering Manager's Podcast, an Ultamize production from the Ultamize Personal Development Podcast Network.

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From Code to People
Ultamize
TJ Walker
Ultamize Personal Development Podcast Network
technical leadership
first time manager
How to Manage People Who Used to Be Your Peers
managing former peers
peer to boss transition
workplace leadership