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drjim Dr. Jim Anderson has uncovered a problem that IT managers need to do something about — they don’t know how to professionally network! Dr. Anderson explains how you can restart your professional network and he offers 3 steps that you can take to update old or out of date contact information. To get more information … Read more
Talk about whining! I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been working with newly minted IT managers who come to me and complain that people aren’t listening to what they say. A little bit of digging on my part and I discover that they’re part of some sort of cross functional team or that … Read more
Dr. Jim Anderson has discovered that IT workers don’t seem to have any company loyalty anymore! Dr. Anderson explains that the arrival of the Generation Y workers has changed the role of loyalty in the modern workplace. Now workers can be loyal to a manger or a great project, but an IT manager needs to … Read more
When I’m working with IT managers, all too often I see them trying very hard to get things “just right”. I know what they are thinking. They believe that if they can get things set up correctly, then the team that they are in charge of will just run itself. I guess that they might … Read more
Dr. Jim Anderson has uncovered a problem that IT managers need to learn how to deal with: girl fights! Dr. Anderson explains what motivates women to bully other women in the workplace. He then identifies two steps that IT managers can take to put a stop to this type of action. To get more … Read more
I’ve got some bad news for all of you IT Managers out there: it turns out that 25% of the best workers in your IT team are planning on leaving within the next 12 months. Not to depress you even more, but it turns out that those internal job change programs that you have perhaps … Read more
Dr. Jim Anderson shares the four emotional drivers that IT managers need to know about in order to get the maximum results from their team. these emotional drivers include: the drive to acquire, the drive to bond, the drive to comprehend, and the drive to defend. Dr. Anderson explains how IT managers can use the … Read more
Hey IT manager, just how loyal to your company are you? How loyal do you think that your team members are? I’m betting that the answer to both of these questions is “not very”. Given that that is the current situation that we find ourselves in, how did we get here and what is an … Read more
One of the biggest challenges that all IT managers face is the simple fact that often their teams expect them to know everything. In the era of massive data sets, this means that when your IT team runs into a problem that just can’t fit into a standard off-the-shelf database they’re going to show up … Read more
If there is one thing that is constant in IT it’s that things are always changing. What this means for you as an IT manager is that you have an important decision to make: are you going to resist change or are you going to become a change agent? If you choose to become a … Read more