IT Staff & Team Building

The fast-growing demand for technology has turned IT into a business. To lead this business, IT leaders or CIOs need to strategically create alternative business solutions. In this article at Future of CIO, Pearl Zhu suggests few questions for the CIOs to answer if they truly wish to run an innovative IT business. Ideas to Steal IT innovation calls for adopting technology in innovative ways to make an organization agile. Innovation usually begins with idea …

Anyone will agree virtual teams are hard to work with. The physical distance among the team members impacts the team bonding. The ice never breaks beyond knowledge sharing and interactions related to work. So, the virtual teams stay emotionally aloof, making them mere cogs of a project. In this article at strategy+business, Katherine Dugan and Varun Bhatnagar share 3 effective ways to make virtual teams feel more real. 3 Ways Virtual Teams Can Feel Connected …

To make innovation a byword in your organization, you must innovate the office culture. Digital transformation is a long process that requires acceptance of changes and agility to adapt to new-age technologies. With Amazon and Google already setting trends on this front, it is quite hard to keep up. Melissa Swift is the digital advisory leader for Korn Ferry Hay Group. In this article at the Enterprisers Project, Ginny Hamilton shares Swift’s views about transforming …

Relocation brings freshness to the monotonous work environment, but is it as glorious as it seems? No, it is not. Therefore, prepare your employees in advance and break them in small teams to perform the tasks of seamless office shift. In this article at Project-Management.com, Brendan Bowie shares how the daunting task of shifting the office to a new location can be a painless affair. Notify First Most of the organizations do this blooper of …

Forming a team with the cream crowd of the industry is no game. But virtual team building has made this unrealistic task easy. Still, hiring a par excellence candidate onboard can have terrible consequences like productivity loss, major workflow interruptions and so on. In this article at Remote.co, Jennifer Parris shares her perspective on the hiring of remote workers that will help you assemble a strong remote team. Give Before Taking Like any regular employee, …

Emotional intelligence (EI) is the ability to remain aware, hold control and express emotions to handle interpersonal relationships gently. To take the lead, having a cohesive work culture is the need of the hour for a strong business. In this article at Inc.com, Denese Skinner explains that a conceptualized hiring strategy can lead to hiring best-fit employees. However, making a good hiring decision starts by creating a highly detailed and specific job description designed to …

For years, people complain about extended multiple meetings in project management. Many drop the idea of getting into this field considering the hours of meetings in it. Experts suggest that most of the project managers spend almost half of their working time in meetings. In this article at The Enterprisers Project, Carla Rudder explains why taking daily stand-ups over conventional meetings is essential if an organization wants fast growth. Stay up to Speed The author …

With high business needs, CIOs with technical mindset is fading away gradually. Every organization wants to hire someone who can efficiently handle multiple tasks and teams. The CIOs with a strong sense of business and efficiency to multitask is worth a million dollar. In this article at CIO, Chloe Dobinson shares some sure shot tips for CIOs to scale up their game and enable them to handle more than usual teams together. Act of Balancing …

The project portfolio management (PPM) is a process familiar to the project managers and PMOs. PPM helps in analyzing the return on a project by uniting and organizing every bit of data for a proposed and ongoing project. In this article at Thinking Portfolio, the author shares some productive tricks for the PPM beginners to ease their way. The PPM managers are responsible for predicting and analyzing risks for the companies aiming to invest in …

The prevalence of procrastination is consistent across allies, gender, and nationalities. Yet, researchers are unable to identify any suitable way that helps people not to miss a deadline. In this article at Strategy-Business, Theodore Kinni shares his perspective on managing procrastinators. He says that employee’s lack of productivity can cause a mess for planning, productivity, team performance, and anything else dependent on a coordinated activity or to a schedule. Leader’s Call In such circumstances, the …