How To Improve Your Performance With 8 Weekly Events
Here are 8 things you can do on a weekly basis
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How To Cope With A Headcount Freeze
The Global Financial Crisis continues, and Managers are being asked to do more with the same, or less. The inevitable ‘Headcount Freeze’ has been mandated in many organizations putting pressure on managers to maximize the return on investment. Holy Cow it’s getting tough! There are a number of interventions that will ease the pressure. And
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6 More Powerful Questions To Ask At Your Performance Review
Here are six more powerful questions to ask at your review, which delve further into your performance and to inquire about how you can excel in the future
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As A Leader, Your Personality Is Everything (Part Four)
If somebody gives you feedback that surprises you, how should you respond? Defensively?… dismissively?… aggressively? Of course not. Here’s how. In last week’s installation of this series , I emphasized a key point: Feedback Is A Gift . In order to understand how other people perceive your personality and your behaviors, you need to be
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6 Powerful Questions To Ask In Your Performance Review
Here are 6 Powerful Questions To Ask In Your Performance Review – curated and road-tested over many years. Don’t start your performance appraisal without them!
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As A Leader, Your Personality Is Everything (Part Three)
Imagine if you thought you were doing a great job, but your colleagues and boss didn’t (and they don’t tell you). How would you feel?
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As A Leader, Your Personality Is Everything (Part Two)
Last week I began discussing the subject of Personality , and why it is important to IT leaders. Your personality is your personal brand and it’s how people, particularly your followers, will expect you to behave. Your behaviors are the root of your leadership style, and consistent behavior is what makes that style predictable by
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As A Leader, Your Personality Is Everything (Part One)
I bet you can’t guess who this is straight away: Age 23: lost a job Age 23: was defeated in bid for state legislature Age 24: failed in a business venture Age 25: was elected to legislature
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How To Search The Invisible Job Market
The Best jobs aren’t advertised in the newspaper or on the web. Much like real estate, the best of the bunch are snapped up before they ever hit advertisements. If you scour job ad sites or the back pages of a paper, then you’re really looking at the jobs the top people don’t want. You’re
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35 FREE Tools for IT/Developers And Business
The Open Source movement continues strongly, and with it comes a greater number of more powerful free tools and applications. After a long week of scouring the web for the best free programs, I’ve compiles a list below where you will find a great selection of tools and applications for those in the IT/Development and
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How Do Business Analysts Measure Their Value?
How should we measure the value of the Business Analyst?
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Five FREE Ways to Stand Out From Other IT Salespeople
IT Sales is a tough job. IT buyers don’t suffer fools gladly, and they aren’t tricked by the usual methods employed by door-to-door vacuum cleaner salespeople. IT Sales has developed into an artform, so it’s vital you stand out from your bustling crowd. Here are five FREE ways to do this: Call your prospects at
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The Most Inspiring Book I Have Read! Peter Drucker’s ‘The Effective Executive’
I am making a bold claim: this book will inspire and surprise you. Originally published in 1966, the book remains essentially the same amazing content, although many examples shared by Drucker are updated. Peter Ferdinand Drucker (1909-2005) was a prolific writer and management consultant who today is considered to be the father of ‘modern management’.
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5 Major Gaffes I’ve Made as an IT Manager
I can look back on my career now and laugh at some of the things I did, and in some cases I cringe like crazy to the point my toes curl up and I look like I am wearing Turkish slippers. Naivety provides great learning . In this article I am looking back at five
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Mistakes I Made as a Freelance Web Developer and How To Avoid Them
If I had a few cents for every mistake and/or error I made during my time as a freelancer, then quite frankly, I wouldn’t be developing websites.
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A Review of meetingwave.com
Meetingwave.com is a fast-growing networking site that aims to connect business people (predominantly) offline. It helps you arrange meetings in the flesh with people in the areas you’ll be visiting. I found this to be an interesting concept, so I thought I’d review the site for my readers. This is not a paid review! Meetingwave.com
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Brilliant Basics: When Good People Become Bad Bosses
As soon as the word bad boss is mentioned most people start imagining pictures of a wicked person, a crook, a tyrant, a scheming backstabbing individual, a selfish ogre, etc. And typical textbook definitions of a bad boss is one who screams, threatens, intimidates, grabs credit, fires people, throttles people’s necks and so on. While
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Money Isn’t Everything, According to IT Professionals (who responded)
I’ve just read an excellent article, written by Ann All, on the IT Business Edge website that discusses the working environment that IT professionals prefer to work in. What I like about it is Ann’s honest view about the conclusion that IT people like to work in a positive, challenging environment. I’m pleased that IT people
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12 Behaviors Most Disliked by IT Professionals
Opinion isn’t one-sided! In response to my recent article on the 11 behaviors most disliked by IT leaders, here are the 12 behaviors most disliked by IT workers of their managers/leaders. This list was created from surveying some of the IT professionals I know and connect with from a number of countries and industries (56
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It’s Leaders Who Create Merit-Whores
A couple of weeks back I wrote about the most disliked behaviors in IT departments, and one that 80% of IT leaders felt strongly about was the rise of the Merit-Whore. A Merit-Whore is someone who persistently and unfairly takes credit for the work of a team or a subordinate. Why does this happen? In
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