Managers Learn That Innovation Works Best As A Team

Innovation is required in order for a company to be truly successful

The job of every manager is to find ways to use their manager skills to get the most out of their teams. Although this is easy to say, it’s actually quite hard to do because most of us don’t have any manager training on how to go about doing this. One way that a manager … Read more

Managers Need To Know If They Are Confident Or Overconfident

There is a fine line between being confident and being overconfident

So manager – are you overconfident? I’m pretty sure that we all know that being self-confident is one of the manager skills that we all need in order to be a great manager. However, it turns out that there is a dark side to this trait – we can easily become overconfident. When we are … Read more

IT Managers Know That The Best Employees Know How To Fail

Managing an IT team has always been a challenge and with the recent economic challenges that every firm has faced, it has become harder. What IT managers are discovering is the members of their team are shell shocked. They are stuck in survival mode in which they are trying to keep their heads down just … Read more

Why All IT Managers Need To Have Creative Confidence

If you give it some thought, just exactly what does an IT manager need to do in order to be successful? Is it as simple as just doing what you’ve been told to do? I’d be willing to say that this is not the correct answer to this question. Instead, I think that our company … Read more

Three Ways IT Managers Can Motivate Employees Without Using Money

If you want to be managing the best team in the company, then your team is going to have to be motivated to do great things. What this means for you as an IT manager is that you are going to have use your IT manager skills to find ways to both motivate them and … Read more

How IT Managers Can Bring Innovation To Their IT Teams

“Be more innovative” – how many times has your management told you that? Although being innovative isn’t really part of the IT Manager’s job definition, IT Managers still want their IT teams to always be staying ahead of what their internal customers want. We’d like to be able to have our team be solving problems … Read more

How IT Leaders Can Grow Good Ideas

Innovation, innovation, innovation. Everyone seems to be talking about it, but nobody seems to have any clear guidance for IT Leaders when it comes to telling them HOW to grow good ideas within their IT departments. Well we’re going to change that starting right now. Dr. Jan van den-Ende and Bob Kijuit have spent some … Read more

Is An IT Manager Really An Artist?

Here’s an interesting question that I like to whip out every so often and run through my mind: is IT a science or an art? For that matter, are we all engineers or are we really artists? If you think about it, our jobs consist of taking basic elements (colors) combining them (painting) and creating … Read more