Stories from Our Community

"My biggest takeaway is being a leader isn't about achieving a good result, but building and growing a team. Getting to know their goals, sharing the "why", making it win-win to grow their skills and deliver results. I wanted to build my confidence in this leadership journey to build a strong team."

"Give your trust to your team members. Being a leader doesn’t mean you have to control everything, but the mindset that we need to have is that we can grow and learn together."

"I was able to share my thoughts and reflections with every exercise, and every week came with brand new learnings. The sense of community is a deeply ingrained value."

"You need more time to nurture your team and also provide a space for them to find their own way. Becoming a leader is a lifetime learning journey."

"If you build something top-down but the team actually wants bottom-up, then you're hurting rather than helping. Compare what the team says with what you're thinking, see how big that gap is, and what we need to do to fill it."

"NewCampus has taught me a lot, especially in the beginning of my leadership journey. It grows me as a person."

"Let your team work on their project. If you leave an openness with them to come back with what challenges they have faced or work that we have learned and not to orchestrate it, it will help them grow in the way they want to - which is how it should be for being a people manager."

"From writing code 100% to writing code now 20-25%. Almost all of my time now goes into management and having discussion with my teammates, and resolving their issues, with the help of NewCampus."

"I'm used to learning code and getting better at coding, but this was a different skill to learn and improve on. I really enjoyed alot of the homework because we get to do them during our 1-1s and they really helped. I actually refer back to the frameworks in my day-to-day now."

"I still remember the course that taught me entirely about how to conduct 1 on 1s. I found it really intriguing as a new people manager, especially the way I see things."

"While we all came in with different goals and challenges, it was obvious that every person in a managerial role experiences similar challenges every day. There’s a feeling of community because everyone is going through it and figuring their way out together."

"Especially in the tech industry, we need to have a program for first-time managers to learn to become an excellent team leader or project leader so that their junior can even benefit out of it."