How Can Managers Keep Their All-Hands Meetings From Spinning Out Of Control?
Managers need to take the time and make sure that they’ve mastered the skills needed to successfully run an online all hands meeting
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Do Managers Need To Have Empathy?
Managers have been trained to be empathetic leaders but we need to understand how this could affect our ability to make tough decisions
Managers Seek Better Ways To Fire Employees
So let’s face it – firing a team member is never an easy thing for a manager to do. You hired this person, you’ve worked with them, and you’ve attempted to correct anything that they were doing wrong, but now it’s reached the so-called “end of the road” and you find yourself in a position … Read more
How To Spot Bad Team Members In Zoom Meetings
Managers need to detect when they have toxic coworkers on their team and then take action
Managers Discover The Power Of Emotional Intelligence
So how good are you as a manager at showing your emotional intelligence to your team? A lot of us would say that we’re not very good at doing this, but then we’d follow this up by saying something like “I’m not that type of person.” It turns out that you’d be wrong. We can … Read more
How IT Managers Can Do A Good Job Of Delivering Bad News
Let’s face it, as IT Managers we’d all like to be liked. We enjoy the parts of our job that are fun. It makes us happy when another large IT project is successfully rolled out. However, life is life and part of our job is that when there is bad news to be delivered, we’re … Read more
Should IT Managers Become More Empathetic?
As an IT manager, you are responsible for a team of IT professionals. This means that it’s your job to hire the right people, provide them with an overall sense of direction, provide them with specific tasks to accomplish, and to use your IT manager skills to ensure that the work gets done along with … Read more
IT Leaders Know The Importance Of Emotional Intelligence
Every once in awhile we ask the most important question: just exactly what does it take to be a good IT manager. I think that we can all agree that there is a certain level of intelligence that is required in order to perform the job. However, in the last few years, people have slowly … Read more
The 3 Things That Your Team Really Wants From You
So what is your job as an IT manager? What is it that your company is really paying you to do? There may be many different answers to this question, but at the end of the day it’s your job to use your IT manager skills to convince a group of IT professions to all … Read more
In Order To Become A Better Manager, You Need To Learn How To Act Like A Girl
I think that we can all agree that there are certain IT manager skills and traits that the really good managers have. As IT managers, we’d like to discover what these traits are (is there any IT manager training for this?) and then find ways to incorporate them into our own management style. It turns … Read more