Things You Don't Know About Your Lead

Many people dream of a leadership role, but do we really know what it involves? In my panel I would like to talk about my journey from a developer to a team leader and how my scope changed from coding to taking care of Techland's tool team. Would like to look under the surface of the common beliefs about what leadership is about and talk about challenges, and struggles but also its most rewarding moments.
Agenda:
Introduction - who I am and what is my gamedev career path, from tester of some small games, through gameplay programmer, finishing as tools programmer and then transitioning to a leadership role.
Why being team lead is difficult - after working as a programmer where your work was mostly focused on dealing with code, now you are dealing with other people. Not coding as much as you used to and doing things that seem to be invisible. It’s daunting and you feel like a fraud. But it gets better… a little bit.
Why being team lead is rewarding - you can help your team members grow. You see how they evolve in their careers, how they become more open and brave with taking new challenges. You see how they blossom from just coders to people with initiative that bring more and more great ideas to the table. All invisible work that we do is well worth it.
Technical background - why it makes things simple and why it makes things more difficult
First weeks of leadership - what to do now?
Soft skills - it’s easy but… it’s not. I’ve read many books and listened to multiple podcasts but faced with real life scenarios you can never be prepared. Impostor syndrome never helps but as the time passes you understand it more and more that you cannot control everything.
3 years later - where I am now and how the perception of my role changed over the course of the last 3 years. What I did wrong and what I’m still trying to improve."