by Louise Penberthy | Wednesday, 10 February 2016 | Articles, Communication tips, Engaging with diversity, Leadership, Workplace communication | Tags: Communication, For the C-Suite, Working with IT people
If you’re listening to someone talk about diversity and you believe that they’re saying that achieving diversity is akin to checking off items on a laundry list, or judging people simply by physical characteristics, listen again. Listen and be curious…
by Louise Penberthy | Wednesday, 29 July 2015 | Articles | Tags: Communicating value, For CIOs & IT VPs, For the C-Suite, Working with IT people
Reading time: 1 min. Is the C-Suite still treating your IT department as a cost center? Take some tips from Terry Bennett, a partner at Fortium Partners LP, a technology executive services firm focused on providing value delivered by world-class resources in an...
by Louise Penberthy | Wednesday, 8 July 2015 | Articles, Leadership, Workplace communication | Tags: Communication, For CIOs & IT VPs, For the C-Suite, Working with IT people
Reading time: 1 min. If you’re a leader, or you’re working towards becoming a leader, and you work in a complex hierarchical organization, here are some tips for thriving in the organization. These tips come from John Halamka, who – among other things – is...
by Louise Penberthy | Wednesday, 3 June 2015 | Articles | Tags: Communicating value, For CIOs & IT VPs, For the C-Suite, Working with IT people
Reading time: 1 min. A key factor in the success of IT is the ability to communicate value to the rest of the organization, both communicating the value of IT and the value of individual project initiatives. However, according to the 2015 Power of Effective IT...
by Louise Penberthy | Wednesday, 13 May 2015 | Articles, Workplace communication | Tags: Communication, Dealing with difficult people, For the C-Suite, Working with IT people
Reading time: 3 min. How often do you have to deal with difficult people? Even if it’s not very often, it’s still too often. I think of difficult people this way: having a conversation with them is like navigating down a white water river with Class III...
by Louise Penberthy | Wednesday, 25 March 2015 | Articles, Workplace communication | Tags: Communication, Dealing with difficult people, Working with IT people
Reading time: 2 min. 30 sec. Sometimes, two particular people don’t work well together. Have you ever known two people who don’t work well together, for no obvious reason? Maybe there’s someone you yourself don’t work well with. I see this in...
by Louise Penberthy | Wednesday, 4 March 2015 | Articles, Leadership | Tags: Working with IT people
Reading time: 3 min. If you want to start an extended session of finger pointing, flame wars, and blame slinging, just bring up the topic of who’s to blame for failed IT projects, or failed code-development projects of any kind. A discussion on this subject in...
