Should Managers Be Using Emojis At Work?

It turns out that Emojis are the key to clear and concise communication

So can we talk about email? It’s a key part of our life and it seems like we spend a great deal of time each day using our manager skills to read emails that have been sent to us and composing emails to send to others. However, email has always had a problem. It turns … Read more

Managers Deal With The Challenge Of Remote Workers

Managers need to find ways to make remote workers feel like a member of the team

As we move further and further into the 21st Century, what work looks like is continuing to change. Managers realize that successful teams exhibit a type of office camaraderie where the different members of the team are willing to go above and beyond for the other members of their team. This can start to get … Read more

How To Celebrate Successes With Your Team

When you team has a success, you need to acknowledge it

As a manager you need to remember that celebrating our achievements is important for every team. Joyfully acknowledging milestones gives credit to the hard work done by the team, provides motivation for reaching goals, and rewards everyone for a job well done. Nowhere is this truer than where we work. Managers need to realize that … Read more

How Should Managers Deal With The Challenges Of Group Chat?

As a manager, one of the things that you want to do is to use your manager skills to get the members of your team to talk with each other. When an issue comes up, you’d like as many people as possible to be able to take a look at it and offer their inputs … Read more

The Best Way To Choose A Real-Time Messaging Service

How many different ways do your IT teams communicate with each other? Let me count the ways: email, text, phone call, Facebook, tweet, and even some face-to-face talking. Having all of these different ways to exchange information brings up an interesting question for IT managers that we don’t have any IT manager training for – … Read more

IT Managers Know That It Takes A Human To Make A Budget

Wouldn’t it be great if there was some magic machinery somewhere that we could all go to, push a big red button, and then your team’s budget for the year would pop out. As wonderful as this would be, such a machine does not exist. This means that the process of creating a budget involves … Read more