Partners For The Evolutionary Technology

There's nothing like a new job to test and expand your leadership skills, but such opportunities don't come around that often. So look for ways to grow as a leader in your current job:
Reshape your current job to find new challenges within it. Rethink your approach to a current responsibility, trade tasks with a colleague, or take on a role that is needed but currently left undone.
Take on temporary assignments that offer fresh challenges. Seek out projects, task forces, and events that you can… Continue

If you're an ICT manager (and even if you're not), you know that nowadays there's precious little discretionary money available for developing new ICT capabilities. And when such spending is approved, it comes in the form of a 10-pound bag of expectations and a 5-pound bag of resources.

What to do? Whether you're developing the process or sponsoring its development, stay focused on realizing value by asking key questions at each stage. For example:

1. Exploration stage: "How will this initiati… Continue

When you're arguing for resources or presenting a business case, it's essential to take time to understand your audience before making your pitch.

Figure out what your audience members (your boss, peers, other stakeholders) are already feeling, and what change in feeling you must induce in them to further your purpose. For example, is your boss already upset over a previous request for resources that ultimately produced no value? If so, avoid projecting an air of entitlement. And don't deny res… Continue

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It makes sense to encourage older and younger employees to share knowledge, ideas, and advice. But old-school, top-down programs in which mentors and mentees are assigned to each other don't work as well as relationships that come about more organically.

It's best to help mentors and protégés find each other by starting with specific work needs -- when one person can contribute to another's project or goal. This gets the initial relationship going in a comfortable, useful way. Later, if the che… Continue