How Managers Can Create A Creative Workplace
Managers who want to get the most out of their team need to take the time and create a creative work environment
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Four Things That Google Learned About Managers
We all know who Google is, right? Well it turns out that they like data and they like processing data. What this means for managers is that Google spends their time collecting data about how managers are using their manager skills to manage their teams and then they process that data. They used to think … Read more
3 Mistakes That IT Managers Need To Avoid Making
As we work towards trying to become better IT managers, we tend to focus on our IT manager skills in order to determine either what we are not currently doing or what we could be doing better. However, it turns out that there is something else that we need to be doing: making sure that … Read more
What Self-Management Skills Does An IT Manager Need To Manage Himself / Herself?
As IT managers we spend a lot of time thinking about what we need to do in order to manage others. We understand that this requires a special set of skills and so we spend time trying to develop and refine those IT manager skills. However, do you ever spend any time thinking about how … Read more
You Need To Love Yourself In Order To Have A Great IT Manager Career
Once you become an IT manager, you’d think that you’d pretty much made it – what more could you want? However, it’s really just the start of another journey, not the end. What makes this part of your career potentially different from the parts that came before is that you are the one who is … Read more
Discover The Secret To IT Manager Career Success
IT managers are asked to do a lot of things during the average day: recruit new workers, keep the ones that they already have, resolve disputes, etc. The one thing that they also need to be doing every day is probably the thing that gets overlooked all too often: manage their careers. Just What Is … Read more
Can IT Managers Do A Good Job Of Performance Appraisals?
Performance appraisals are just about the worst part of an IT manager’s job. You don’t like doing them, your team doesn’t like receiving them. However, as per company policy it’s a required part of the job. Considering how critical they are, you would think that you would have received a great deal of training on … Read more