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Category Archives: Leadership
Recruiting
How do you determine the right candidate fit during recruiting? Ask additional questions that center around topics such as, Your company and the culture around it. Describe the position and expectations of the role and then ask questions around it. Focus also on any constraints such as working with older technologies. Have the candidate actively […]
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Information Security
Information security helps protect an enterprise from threats and avoid customer data compromise. Every organization needs to have its security posture well defined, monitored and audited. The security posture has to keep up with threats emerging every day. I was asked to lead an initiative on Security in our organization – to review, recommend and […]
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5 Levels of Leadership
I came across a great article and followed up by listening on Utube to John C. Maxwell about the 5 levels of leadership. Really, liked all he has to say on this topic.
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Switching to working virtually…
It’s been about a month and half nearly two months now of working completely virtual and staying away from the office due to Covid19. There were some initial bumps, such as, dropped vpn connections or capacity overload home wifi connectivity issues missing having two monitors issues with team collaboration tools missed meeting by team members […]
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Leading in troubled times
March 2020 will be a time in our history that we will remember for ever. Almost overnight we went from a time of economic prosperity and freedom of movement to one where businesses were quickly shuttered and we were severely restricted in our movements. Masks and social distancing became part of our daily life. Working […]
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Coaching Technical Teams
Coaching is a very important part of a manager/leader’s role, as it affects the morale, productivity and long term success of the team. Coaching simply involves, Empowering teams to tackle problems and come up with solutions on their own Encouraging risk taking and learning from their mistakes. Providing skills training and mentoring individuals to develop […]
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Team Goals
Goals built around a common purpose help teams become more cohesive and collaborative. Goal setting can be challenging, both in terms of identifying and then marking progress. I generally start the year, by bringing the team together for a team meeting to, set collective team goals, by first, Reviewing the company goals for the year […]
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Top 4 leadership qualities
A good leader is someone with a vision, who is passionate about that vision and has the courage and commitment to bring that vision to fruition. Here are four characteristics that leaders have, Ability to Inspire A good leader needs to able to get others to see the vision and follow it so the vision […]
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Budgets
Coming up with the appropriate project and team budgets for the upcoming year can be challenging and time consuming. Determining resource needs on new projects can be daunting, particularly if you still have elements of the plan to be worked out. It is hard to anticipate unexpected needs that might arise in the later part […]
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Fun at work
Having some fun at work is important. Even as teams work late nights to make deadlines or try to achieve the different organization and personal goals, it is important that they pause for some rest and relaxation. This builds team camaraderie, reduces stress and ultimately does improve productivity and employee retention. We have had various […]
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