Mangers Need To Deal With Younger Team Members Who Feel Lonely
Managers need to understand that the younger members of their team may be feeling lonely and this can have an impact on the performance of the team
Millennial
Can Managers Count On Millennials Sticking Around?
Managers who are worried that the millennial members of their team might be planning on leaving can relax because studies show that they will stay
The Millennial Workplace Is Coming – Will Managers Be Ready?
As all managers have probably realized by now, the millennials have arrived. That younger generation of workers are moving into the office at the same time that the baby boomers are starting to move out. The arrival in force of this new type of worker is going to cause some fundamental changes to occur in … Read more
Are Managers Going To Be Ready For Gen Z Workers?
Ok manager, how is managing those millennials working out for you? I hope that you’ve come up with ways to make peace with them because it is just about time for the next batch of workers to show up on your doorstep: Generation Z. Do you have any manager training for dealing with this? This … Read more
What’s The Best Way For A Manager To Switch Jobs?
No job that any of us have will probably last us for our entire career. What that means is that we’re all going to be packing up our manager skills and switching jobs at some point in time. This is where things can get a bit tricky because none of us have had any manager … Read more
How IT Managers Can Deal With The Tragedy Of Unreturned Emails
I think that it would probably be safe to say that despite the arrival of social media tools, email is still the #1 tool that IT managers use to both get and distribute information. Email has so many different things working in its favor: everyone has an email address so everyone can be reached, we … Read more
What To Do When Your Boss Is Younger Than You Are
What have you always pictured your boss looking like? If you are anything like me, you’ve always pictured them as a grumpy old man. Or a grumpy old woman if you want to get all modern. However, there is one thing that I’ve never really pictured my boss as being – younger than I am! … Read more
IT Managers Need To Decide: Should Their Millennials Stay Or Go?
Hey IT manager, I bet that you didn’t realize just exactly how big the group of millennials who are working for your company had gotten! It turns out that 18-34 year olds make up 34% of the U.S. job market – the biggest group out there. Next comes the Gen-Xers who make up 32% and … Read more
How IT Managers Can Use Charity To Recruit The Best Workers
When the unemployment numbers dip down, it can become a lot harder for an IT manager use his or her IT manager skills to find the right people to staff his or her team with. The pool of candidates is just a lot smaller – and there are a lot of other companies that they … Read more
How IT Managers Can Manage Millennials
IT managers are working in a unique time. We have three very different generations working on our teams and the way that we go about managing them has to be quite different – do you have the IT manager skills that will be needed to do this?. In addition to the Baby Boomers and the … Read more