Handling employees with poor performance is something that most bosses tend to shy away from. And we get that: No one really wants to bring on a tough conversation or a negative experience. But as a leader, it’s up to you to do what you can to help your team succeed,...
Good IT leaders are highly sought after both by tech companies and within organizations that have IT departments. While traditional leadership skills apply to IT leaders as with others, there are a few essential skills that will set the great IT leaders apart:...
Developing IT Teams for Success In every company, strong team work is synonymous with success. However, for tech companies and for organizations that have IT departments, positive business outcomes can hinge on the strength and cohesiveness of the IT teams. A strong...
Most IT professionals do not start their career looking to become leaders. Yet as they progress throughout their work, many skilled IT leaders will find themselves inevitably placed in positions of leadership, often unprepared for the journey that awaits them. While...
By Eva Szekeres How can you turn a challenging situation into a transformational learning opportunity and increase your leadership effectiveness by doing that? How are you coping with learning and change? Since Peter Senge (1990) wrote that the primary task of leaders...
By Jonathan ‘Jeb’ Bates, MSOD, PCC Change, whether you love it or hate it, is always inevitable. Everyone knows that. However, how you handle change makes all the difference between getting the results you want or going down in flames. Case in point… a...
By Jeannea Spence The more traditional predictors of successful performance – intelligence, education, experience, and personality – are no longer sufficient predictors in today’s workplace and also do not sufficiently take into account employees as human capital --...
Are you someone who more often responds or reacts? In the following leadership comparison, we put responsive and reactive leadership tendencies side by side to help you get to know the differences between these two leadership styles and see if you can identify which...
When your goals align with your company’s, it’s not only evidence that you’re in the right place, it’s also confirmation that your business is on the right track and getting after those goals every day. On the flip side, when your goals and those of your organization...
By Plum Cluverius Did you know that the average person makes almost 700 decisions per day and that about 40-45% of those decisions are so habitual that they’re not really decisions at all? This is an important fact for any of us who wants to change a behavior—like...