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7 common IT training mistakes to avoid

CIO

What’s not often discussed, however, are the mistakes IT leaders make when establishing and supervising training programs, particularly when training is viewed as little more than an obligatory task. Is your organization giving its teams the training they need to keep pace with the latest industry developments?

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Rackspace’s Brian Lillie on the importance of leadership principles

CIO

Brian Lillie is president of Private Cloud at Rackspace and had previous technology leadership roles at Equinix, Verisign, SGI, and the United States Air Force, so he’s worked hard to define his leadership style. With these values clearly defined, Lillie had a new question: “How do I apply these values to leadership?”

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Great Leadership Trains

Career Advancement

To get there, she knew she had to focus on growing her leadership skills. She began working with an executive coach who gave her weekly exercises to do in order to hone those abilities. If you want to aspire toward a career in leadership, work toward building and developing these characteristics. Great leaders have Integrity.

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How Communities of Practice and Leadership Build Your Workforce Leadership Skills

Evolution4all

Communities of Practice and Leadership. Now the question is, how does CoP help in developing leadership skills among your employees? Is it possible to integrate leadership training in a CoP even if the centre of conversation of its members is all about their respective domains? Leadership as Starting Point.

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Boost Team Flow with this Adjacent Disciplines Exercise

Accenture

For example, a senior technical product manager might benefit from developing training and leadership skills; sharper training skills to accelerate cross-functional knowledge exchange, and sharper leadership skills to better coach and mentor teams to solve problems. The exercise works well for teams of 5-7 people.

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Build Your Own Competency Model- A Team Exercise

Let's Grow Leaders

Competency models are extremely useful for staffing and selection processes, building training curriculum, compensation modeling and other contexts. I’ve spearheaded many such initiatives over the years, including the modeling of all the leadership jobs that were used in merger selection of the executive team.

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Executive Presence Training

Career Advancement

Leadership is lifting a person’s vision to high sights, the raising of a person’s performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.” Braxton Asks: To prepare my high-performers to take on more challenging roles, my company wants to hold a leadership training event.