Manager README
About this template
This template is a guideline to creating your own manager README. It provides a framework that will easily allow you to reflect and explain who you are.
It’s a practice that’s emerged with managers. The goal is to publish a document that explains what’s important to them and what it’s like to work with them.
This manifest helps prospective or current employees understand what to expect from their manager or coworker. In general it is called a “manager README”, it is directly inspired from the common instructional README documents that often accompany software.
READMEs are intented to help others understand what it might be like to work with someone, it is also useful to the writer because it’s a way to have some proper introspection.
This practice shows an effort at building trust by being intentionnaly vulnerable and by sharing personal and professional core values.