Dr. Jim Anderson recently hosted a workshop for new IT managers to learn how to better work in teams. The purpose of the workshop was to take IT workers who up until recently had been individual contributors and show them just how powerful working in teams can be.
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Blue Elephant Consulting is pleased to announce a new training partnership with OakTree Software. The two firms have teamed up to offer a two-day workshop for IT managers. For the first time, management training that was previously only available to Fortune 100 companies will now be made available to any […]
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Dr. Jim Anderson has been selected by Verizon staff to deliver his powerful IT manager motivational program. The Verizon Information Systems Orientation Program (ISOP) is designed to provide high-potential IT staff who have been identified as having management potential a start to the next phase in their IT careers.
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By this time in the 21st Century, I’m hoping that we’ve all got the diversity message: gender, race, age, sexual orientation (you too California) don’t matter when hiring people for jobs or when managing them. However, it turns out that there’s been a pink elephant lurking in the room that […]
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Dr. Anderson recently addressed a management training program for new IT leaders. As a part of his presentation, Dr. Anderson told the story of the Piper Alpha drilling platform that bust into flames in the middle of the North Sea in 1988.
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I’m guessing that you wouldn’t go to work naked. Then why-oh-why are you thinking about going to work as an IT Leader when you don’t have all of the skills that you’ll need to do the job correctly? I’m not sure if this is going to make you feel any […]
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Welcome to the 21st Century where all IT workers now view themselves as temporary workers. The constant cycles of downsizing and outsourcing have made even the most committed workers view their jobs as being not so much as a career, but rather as a temporary pit-stop.
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A question that I often get asked by both new and old IT leaders is “how can I become a better manger?” The question is a simple one that has complex answers. What all IT leaders want is to become one of those leaders who has the ability to get […]
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Dr. Jim Anderson recently spoke to a group of South-Asian IT managers about their role in making their companies successful during times of global change. Although the world of technology may be coming out of a period of cost reductions and staff cuts, it’s what IT managers do going forward […]
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The workplace is a-changing. As more younger workers start to flood into IT departments (ok, “Millennials” if you must) a lot of what used to work from a management point-of-view has stopped working and this is leaving IT managers with more questions than solutions. There are roughly 80 million workers […]
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