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An interview with Polly Chandler, Coach + Facilitator at Chandler Coaching, a WTF Consortium TeamMate + Collaborator.
How did you come to discover the benefits of strengths-based leadership and how has it impacted your leadership coaching work?
Security managers try their best. They deploy firewalls and intrusion detection systems like they are supposed to, along with antivirus, web content filtering, encryption and policies. Yet when it comes to managing new threats or keeping ahead of the latest new vulnerabilities, security managers are stuck. They cannot adapt quickly enough. They cannot digest the […]
As part of client engagements I am asked to undertake a 70% review of IT financial plans. At this time of year, when many IT leaders are in the midst of putting their budgets together, I thought I’d share some technology misses I have seen within IT budget planning.
Some software projects are more difficult than others. But what do I mean by difficult and how can we tell if a project is going to be difficult before we’ve even started it?
Agile teams are, by their nature, focused teams. They have an eye on delivery, and are making the best steps possible to drive towards that goal. The stories are in place, the backlog is understood, and we’re improving velocity with each sprint.
I was listening to a Hear and Now interview with Micah Zenko, author of Red Team: How to Succeed By Thinking Like the Enemy. It struck me that many of the issues related to terrorism and cyber attacks stem from the propensity of those working in the management of intelligence systems, and managing systems that require security, do so under industrial age economic models rather than the more emergent model of The Serendipity Economy, a set of principals that those perpetrating the crimes tend to live under, even if they don’t know it.
There are many different schools of psychotherapy, and many of those transferrable to organisational psychotherapy. I have a great fondness for the approach of Carl Rogers (person-centred, or client-centred therapy).
It seems like an age ago but soon after I joined Forrester Research in 2006 I noticed something odd. My job then was the personal advisor to leaders of technology organisations. I helped them make use of the research that Forrester published. What I noticed early on was that there was a strong theme about the role of the CIO, but the CTO was hardly ever mentioned.
I just spent the last two weekends teaching Social Media for Job Hunters at Bellevue College. It is always a great learning experience for me, and I hope, a valuable experience for the students as well.
Today’s customer journey can start in any one channel and proceed through many others; such as social media, web chat, text, email, and/or the telephone. The term Omni-Channel is used to describe the new standards for companies trying to provide a seamless customer experiences across multiple channels and devices including telephones, tablets and or PC/laptops.