Coaching for IT Success
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Four professional coaches discuss making IT executives more effective.
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Marshall Goldsmith, an executive coach, argues that your past success could be holding you back.
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When I suggested in a recent column that a problematic 5 percent of employees account for 75 percent of the IT support burden, I expected a wave of âright on!â letters from IT support staffers. After the column was published, the letters did come â most of them disagreeing with my premise, with one reader suggesting that the real whiner was yours truly. I still think itâs outside the realm of overextended IT departments to provide training on basic computing skills (which I defined as âmanaging and finding files, and basic working knowledge of suites such as MS Officeâ). But my thinking was adjusted a bit by the thoughtful feedback.
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Here are some tips from IT labor experts, recruiters, IT executives and IT workers themselves on how to get noticed, nail the interview and wind up in the catbird's seat.
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(Source: BMC Software) Do you need help managing your IT infrastructure and resources, improving operational efficiency, reducing operating costs, and increasing quality of service? This paper explains how you can take a proactive approach in managing your IT infrastructure and applications enabling you to fix problems before they impact end users.
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Monk and his IT junk What you really get on those Microsoft, Novell and Cisco courses...â¦
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Fail to put two and two together on flexible working IT directors say their number one problem is recruiting and retaining talent. Despite this, they put flexible teleworking at the bottom of their list of priorities.â¦
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By Shyla Sangaran  LOCAL enterprises will now have access to a more powerful end-to- end solution that would help them to manage their information and communications technology (ICT) assets better and protect against viruses.
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Off-shoring continues to take its toll This month has seen the UK's aspiring Prime Minister recycling his views in his Budget Report on the requirements and funding for enhancing the training opportunities and skills to compete globally as a prelude to announcing greater investment in higher education. Some people and organisations, âspeaking on behalf of the UK IT Industryâ, have hitched themselves to this bandwagon in the anticipation that some of the UK Government's proposed increase in its skills and education funding will find its way to the IT industry both in funding terms and in delivering more highly trained and motivated IT professionals.â¦
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Today's corporations need to bend without breaking. Agile IT operations can deliver products and services promptly, and then they can update and improve and reconfigure those resources as need be. But only good management practices will keep it all working together. In this Executive Briefing, we'll look at best practices for providing and managing IT in an on-demand world.
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For about a decade, Frances B. Craig looked for a product to build her company around. She had started an information technology consulting company but missed building software to help companies operate efficiently.
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The information technology (IT) consulting company is setting the bar for its peers.
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Computerworld recently conducted a survey of more than 100 IT executives to understand how IT leaders are balancing the supply of IT services with business-driven demands to maximize business value. Learn what your peers had to day about the effectiveness of the approaches they use. Their answers may surprise you.
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Corporate coaches, leadership consultants and IT professionals give their top picks for books that can change the way you work and the way you live.
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By Dave Gallagher, The Bellingham Herald, Wash.  Feb. 11--Sandy Keathley recently dealt with a problem that many small business owners fear: Computer woes were holding her company hostage.
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Hereâs a paradox for you: The latest government stats indicate that the IT job market is positively sizzling right now. Unemployment hovers at a nearly imperceptible 3 percent, and employers everywhere report difficulties finding qualified workers to fill open spots. Yet every week I receive e-mails from frustrated, even angry, IT folks whose jobs were either eliminated or shipped overseas. Although they keep plugging away, they simply cannot find work. And these folks are not just a bunch of cranks; theyâre IT pros with real skills and experience to match.
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Mike Baker examines the factors that combine to make a good teacher.