Push your employees “off the edge” and be there to help them land safely. Get them out of their comfort zone and enable their growth, advancement and provide them with opportunities. At times, you will come across folks who lack confidence and belief in their abilities and it is on you as a leader to find a way to reinvigorate …
Why you should market IT services
Marketing your services and products is essential in order to make sales, increase revenue, make your payroll and ultimately survive. Having that in mind, why is it that IT leadership frequently believes (or certainly acts that way) that their services shouldn’t be marketed across their organizations and beyond? Why do they believe that others will just magically become aware of …
Job interviews 101: Be honest and tell the truth
Job interviews pro tip: always tell the truth! It’s that simple. When you are telling the truth you don’t have to make anything up or recollect what you said during your phone interview or wrote on your application. The truth is always the same and it doesn’t change. Honesty would provide for an open communication and will facilitate finding the …
Share the spotlight
Share opportunities with your team and empower your staff to get actively involved at the highest strategic levels. This exposure and recognition at the executive level will enable people to have a better understanding of the strategic priorities and realign themselves with that in mind. Furthermore, don’t keep all strategic, leadership projects and responsibilities for yourself, but rather share them …
Talk is cheap
Actions speak louder than words. We have all heard this saying and it holds true in nearly all areas of our lives. Having that in mind, it is interesting to see that way too many people don’t go past words, speeches and talks. Too many people don’t deliver what they claim they will and that is the greatest differentiation between …
Culture of innovation, creativity and progress
Building your culture is a hard work that needs to be thought out strategically, planned carefully and implemented one step at a time. The process of bringing everyone to a new standard of performance, new standard of thinking takes time and it is not something one can achieve over night. With that in mind, it is essential to remain committed …
Why you must read meeting agendas
You must read agendas for all meetings you plan on attending. This is simple, straight forward, yet some folks still show up to meetings unprepared and at times even completely unaware of the intended direction and purpose of the meeting. This is clearly a bad situation to be in and as such you should do all you can to avoid …
Companies don’t make decisions, people do
Build relationships and proactively meet people outside your team, outside your immediate surroundings. Selflessly investing in relationships and getting to know your fellow coworker, partners and vendors will undoubtedly prove to be of great strategic value to you and your team. Remember, companies don’t make decisions, people do.
Two weeks notice
You have handed in your resignation, your two weeks notice. Now what? First, resist the urge to slack off and tell those few you didn’t see eye to eye with what you really think of them – it’s not wort it. Second, tie up any lose ends, share information and knowledge and work proactively on passing your current responsibilities as …
To succeed you must leave your office
Get out of your office and have your staff do the same. Now, don’t interpret that as not working or simply hanging out, but as a necessary process to grow, learn and become better at our jobs. Each of us must reach beyond the comfort of our core expertise in order to meet people and learn from them. Meet folks …