If you’re an experienced IT ‘Subject-Matter-Expert’ now interested in adding a management/leadership role to your professional skillset, CIO Simon Stapleton has written a useful 24 page e-book on “The Essence Of IT Leadership Vol 1“. I downloaded and read it in about 30 minutes and here are some comments on what I’ve learned, written from [...]
One of the limiting aspects to my time management strategy has been a tendency to “over plan” goals and their related tasks – what I’d probably call an over indulgence in “self micro-management”, now that the jargon-creating neurons have lit up By that I mean I’m one of those people who love planning around the [...]
Here’s the first in an occasional series of relatively short posts written from a mentoring perspective. In other words, this is knowledge I gained from others and have found useful in my life and career. 1- “The Method Of Polite Conversation” This technique is really simple and can work well when talking to someone else [...]
Since Google is well known for being a great place to work and following on from Tuesday’s post on Google TechTalks Coaching , below is my current list of questions about coaching and mentoring within the Big ‘G’. To get the creative juices flowing I used my trusty copy of MindGenius and generated a simple [...]
There’s an old, somewhat worn out personal development / goal setting exercise that usually goes something like this: “Imagine you’ve just six months to live. What would you do? Where would you go? Who would you spend time with?” I (and some of my coaching clients) invariably have trouble imagining our own future demise – [...]
