IT team building Archives - The Accidental IT Leader

When Should A Manager Delegate?

September 21, 2023 by drjim

Managers should delegate, except when they shouldn't

Managers who want to become more productive need to discover the best ways to delegate work to members of their team

How Can Managers Deal With Pressure?

September 16, 2023 by drjim

We all have pressure, we need to learn how to deal with it

Managers are always experiencing pressure as a part of our job and we need to be able to find ways to deal with it and manage it so that we can be successful

Managers Have To Deal With Alert Overload

September 7, 2023 by drjim

Too many alerts can overload team members

Managers need to understand that their teams are being overrun with too many alerts and we need to take steps to help them deal with the overload

Managers Become Risk Officers

August 31, 2023 by drjim

It's up to managers to protect their companies from external threats

Managers operate at the front lines of their companies and they need to be aware of the cyber threats that they are facing and what to do about them

How Can Managers Both Attract And Then Retain The Best Workers?

August 24, 2023 by drjim

In order to build a great team, you need to both attract and retain good workers

Managers need to realize that they have two important jobs to master: attracting top talent to their teams and then finding out how to get them to stay

Writing Is Still A Skill That Managers Need To Master

August 17, 2023 by drjim

It turns out that the ability to write well is still important

As managers, we need to have a number of manager skills in order to be successful in our job. We know what most of them are: ability to communicate, ability to lead, ability to make decisions, and so on. However, it turns out that there is one very important skill that we often forget about … Read more

How Managers Can Move From Management To Leadership

August 10, 2023 by drjim

Your goal is to be both inspirational and clear

During times of change, managers need to step up and take on leadership roles in order to provide their team with a clear vision

How Managers Should Handle Criticism

August 3, 2023 by drjim

We will all receive criticism, it how we handle it that matters

So I’ve got a quick question for you: are you perfect? No? Well good news – I’m not perfect either. What this means is that both of us will, at times, make mistakes no matter how good our manager skills are. When we do that, others are going to see what we’ve done and they … Read more

Mangers Look For Ways To Deal With Toxic Workplaces

July 27, 2023 by drjim

So it turns out that managers are responsible for eliminating toxic workplaces

Managers need to realize that if they allow toxic workers or managers into their workplace it will become expensive and bad for the company

How To Fire Team Members

July 20, 2023 by drjim

It turns out that empathy is important when we're letting people go

When a manager has to fire a team member they need to take that person’s emotions into consideration and be human during the process