The pressures on management at any level within the hierarchy of an organisation are considerable and can appear never ending. The inherent complexities of managing a workforce with diverse skills are ever challenging particularly as this is often matched with an increasing pressure to reduce budgets. The need to do more with less has never been greater. So is IT management so different? 

 

Effective management can be simply achieved by raising the standards at every managerial point in the organisation. This can only be done if there is a healthy attitude towards management where everyone contributes to the discussion and debate. How Sick Is Your Management is about raising the bar by giving people confidence to challenge management about the way things are done. Its premise is that management does not work, well not as good as it should, and is identified by certain symptoms for which cures are proposed that will enable the reader to contribute and make it happen.

 

Demystifying management speak is a way of encouraging employees to get involved. But it is often just a simple case of common sense. For example, too much focus is often placed on budgetary management rather than people management which interestingly has a huge commercial impact. Should Management Have A Social Conscience is all about the commerciality of having 'soft' elements within your own management strategy. Test these ideas out for yourself and see how effective you and your team are with a simple tool . It may help you assess how effective your current approach has been and possibly identify things you want to change and the ways in which you can make it happen.

 

Identifying what needs to be done is a major step forward, making it happen is another. Change can either be done through coaching or through the use of workshops if the scale of the issue dictates it. Please feel free to contact us for a discussion.