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- Most report their IT career has been better than they expected
- Had you IT career turned out as you expected? In an IT Dojo poll, 76 percent of respondents reported their IT career being the same as or better than they initially predicted. by Bill Detwiler
- Tags: Job, Information Technology, Job Satisfaction, Professional Development, Recruitment & Selection, Strategy, Career, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management, Bill Detwiler
- Blog posts 2008-06-27
- Job satisfaction is a balancing act.
- A friend and colleague of mine just announced his resignation as CIO of his organization and has accepted a sweet position as CIO of another similar organization same industry where not only does he report directly to the CEO but has triple the IT budget. I am extremely happy...
- Tags: Job, Retirement, Employee, Scale, Job Satisfaction, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Ramon Padilla
- Blog posts 2007-12-16
- Average Tech Manager makes $105,000
- At least that's what the latest salary survey from InformationWeek bears out. They say,"The typical U.S. business technology manager now makes $105,000 in salary and cash bonuses, the first time this professional has joined the six-figure club in the 10 years InformationWeek has done a salary survey."They caution, however, that...
- Tags: Job Satisfaction, Career
- Blog posts 2007-07-18
- Best place to work in IT
- In yesterday's blog I talked about three IT positions that were listed in the twenty Top Jobs by Money Magazine. Today, I thought I'd pass along the results of Computerworld's Best Places to Work for IT. Companies that were nominated for the distinction "received a 100-question survey asking about their...
- Tags: toni bowers, Job Satisfaction, Company Perks, Company Culture
- Blog posts 2007-06-29
- Keep your private life private, thank you very much
- One of the most uncomfortable work experiences I've ever had happened a few years ago while I sat in my boss's office waiting for a meeting. For reasons known only to him and God, my boss had the habit of listening to his voice messages on speakerphone. It was bad...
- Tags: Office, Job Satisfaction, Humor, Co-workers
- Blog posts 2007-06-04
- Increase your productivity. Take a nap!
- A colleague of mine tells me that most people today are sleep deprived. He's a life coach who focuses on how one's body reacts to stress and how that reaction, in turn, causes our performance to worsen.How can you tell if you're sleep deprived? Here are 3 common telltale signs which are pretty...
- Tags: Teams, Success, Staff, Performance, Morale, Job Satisfaction, Hiring, Employees, Coworkers, Coaching, Career
- Blog posts 2007-05-24
- Should you accept a management position?
- I recently came across a work forum for engineering professionals. One of the members was weighing the decision of whether to accept a management position in his company. His fear is that his performance as a manager would depend on other people rather than just himself as it currently is....
- Tags: Management, Leadership, Job Satisfaction, Company Culture, Career Development
- Blog posts 2007-05-17
- What really counts - good customer service or the lowest price?
- Recently, more than 400 companies were examined by MSN Money for their customer service efforts - and six out of the worst 10 were communications providers. Among the nations bottom 10 - cable providers, wireless carriers and one satellite company dominated the studys results. Here are some of the...
- Tags: Workplace Strategy, Success, Reputation, Performance, Mentoring, Leadership, Job Satisfaction, General, Company Culture, Communication
- Blog posts 2007-05-09
- Team Building exercises -- Are they too contrived to work?
- verywhere you look, you see articles and books that claim to have the secret of effective corporate team building. In fact, consultants have carved out an entire industry deveoted to the subject. Ive been on both sides of this issue -- Ive been on a team and Ive managed a...
- Tags: Co-workers, Teams, Job Satisfaction, Communication, Coaching, Career Development
- Blog posts 2007-05-07
- 7 levels of delegation
- Are you a micromanager? Or maybe one of those generalists whos so vague giving direction that your staff never know exactly what to do? Clients frequently ask if delegation is a style thing that can be learned. Or is it an art thing which is more intuitive;...
- Tags: Workplace Strategy, Women In It, Teams, Success, Power, Performance, Morale, Mentoring, Management, Leadership, Job Satisfaction, General, Company Culture, Coaching, Co-workers, Career, Boss
- Blog posts 2007-05-03
- Is stress incurable for IT pros?
- I found this in an article on the PubMed web site: "In a study of the bodily, mental, and psychophysiological reactions of employees involved in the design of advanced telecommunications systems and of office employees using regular video display technology, several stress-related psychosomatic disorders have been identified." Those disorders include:Sleep...
- Tags: Workplace, toni bowers, publishing gal, Job Satisfaction, Company Culture, Career
- Blog posts 2007-05-01
- 4 outdated ideas. Or maybe not.
- Here are a few things to "noodle" today:1. Does it really matter if a leader has a strong sense of integrity?In a study done by Fast Company magazine last year, 1665 respondents were asked about the importance of ethics in company leaders in todays business climate.The good news: 95% of...
- Tags: Office Politics, Morale, Mentoring, Leadership, Job Satisfaction, General, Company Culture, Communication, Coaching, Co-workers, Career Development, Career, Boss
- Blog posts 2007-04-26
- The whys and hows of moonlighting
- According to the latest report form the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, In 2002, 5.3 percent of U.S. workers across the nation held more than one job. (The bureau defines multiple jobholders as "employed persons who had either two or more jobs as a wage and salary worker, were self-employed...
- Tags: Workplace Strategy, toni bowers, publishing gal, Job Satisfaction, Company Culture, Career
- Blog posts 2007-04-26
- Got 180 seconds?
- In my last posting I discussed a couple of ways that any meeting participant - at any level - can make that meeting more effective for themself and for the organization. Not surprisingly, I heard from some people that they are "meetingd out". They told me that with...
- Tags: Performance, Meetings, Leadership, Job Satisfaction, General, Employees, Coworkers, Company Culture, Communication, Coaching, Boss
- Blog posts 2007-04-19
- Job dissatisfaction and the Sunday night blues
- There were a few times in my life when Sunday nights brought that awful pit-in-the-stomach feeling of dread thinking about the approaching Monday morning. This occurred most frequently during my school years and for about four months when I worked for a health insurance giant that shall remain nameless because...
- Tags: toni bowers, publishing gal, Morale, Job Satisfaction, Career
- Blog posts 2007-04-17
- Should we trust people to manage their own job life?
- More and more companies are moving toward a work-scheduling system designed to allow individuals at all levels to determine what days, hours, even weeks they will be working on the job or at the office.All evidence points to this becoming the way of the future. Its been well established within...
- Tags: Workplace Strategies, Teams, Success, Staffing, Staff, Reputation, Personnel, Personal Development, Performance, Office Politics, Morale, Mentoring, Management, Leadership, Job Satisfaction, Hiring, General, Employees, Discipline, Company Perks, Company Culture, Coaching, Co-workers, Career, Boss
- Blog posts 2007-04-05
- "Subtle" sexism is still a problem
- I had a professor in college who was a militant feminist and a nun. I never could quite reconcile that in my mind, but anyway, this woman taught Womens Literature. Although I was grateful to her for introducing me to the works of female authors (sad to say, up until...
- Tags: Women In It, toni bowers, Sexual Harassment, publishing gal, Office Politics, Morale, Job Satisfaction, General, Co-workers, Career
- Blog posts 2007-04-03
- The best managers? They're not afraid of looking dumb.
- Ever noticed that some managers believe they are supposed to know everything about their area of responsibility? They dont usually last very long. Often their organizations dont either.Great managers and leaders realize that they can never know everything. And theyre comfortable with that. Poor managers...
- Tags: leader
- Blog posts 2007-03-23
- Can you really have a job you're passionate about?
- Lately, theres a lot of talk about passion. People everywhere are talking about, "pursuing their passion." They say things like, "Im passionate" about this or that.But, have you noticed that most people you ask will admit that what they do for a living is definitely NOT what they are...
- Tags: General, Management, Career, Leadership, Coaching, Performance, Personal Development, Women In It, Mentoring, Career Development, Success, Job Satisfaction, Workplace Strategy
- Blog posts 2007-03-15
- Managing Up. Not the same as Sucking Up.
- Most of todays more-thoughtful managers believe that the best way to improve their results is to ensure that their subordinates, or team members, are working at their own best levels. Consequently, a great deal of time is spent working with their folks as individuals, or in team meetings. By...
- Tags: Boss, Career, Career Development, Co-workers, Coaching, Company Culture, Job Satisfaction, Leadership, Management, Meetings, Mentoring, Office Politics, Reputation, Women In It, Workplace Strategies
- Blog posts 2007-03-09
