Month: February 2014

There Is No Such Thing As A Perfect IT Manager – Or Perfect IT Team

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One of the biggest challenges that any IT manager faces no matter how much IT manager training they’ve had is to determine just exactly how much they should expect from their team. They don’t want to be seen as being a “hands off” manager who just lets the team do whatever they want to do; … Read more

IT Managers Need To Learn How To Build Confidence Within Their Team

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As an IT manager it can be very easy for us to focus on the tasks that our IT team has been assigned. We’ll study the schedule, create work breakdowns, assign tasks, and double check to make sure that the work is being done on time. However, it can be all too easy to forget … Read more

Mood Management For IT Managers

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I’d like you to think about a traffic light for a minute. When you approach a traffic light you automatically take a look at it to determine what color it is. If it’s green, then you’ll keep going. If it’s red or amber, then you’ll start to press on the breaks and prepare to stop. … Read more

The Problem Posed By Having Too Much Data

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A recent survey by the magazine InformationWeek revealed that roughly half of the companies out there are managing between 1TB and 99TB of company data. This amount of data is not getting any smaller and in fact is growing rapidly. For IT managers who are in charge of projects that make use of this valuable … Read more