[jpgvm]

Yes read The Manager's Path.

When you are done with that focus on finding yourself a mentor. Leadership skills are even harder to wrote learn than engineering chops. A mentor will help you be more retrospective and find the areas you can improve. Naturally over time you will need to be better at self-introspection but having this come externally for a time helps a lot.

That said the things you describe can also put you in a good position to be tech lead if you can fix the technical depth issue you alluded to. Depends which path you want to go down, tech lead roles are more demanding on your decision making while managerial roles are more demanding on people skills, presentation, politics etc.

[renierbotha]

Thanks, really appreciate this input! Finding a mentor is easier said than done but agree that it's an important step.