The traditional office and the 9-5 days have morphed into home offices, teams in different countries and no standard set hours. Some employees flourish in a remote role, while others are just not cut out for it. It takes a certain type of individual to...

Due to the globalization of today's business managers are faced with having to manage remote employees. This can be a daunting task especially if you are new to managing people let alone remote folks as well. Throughout the next couple of weeks TechLeaders...

With various reorg’s, promotions and people transferring across organizations we might find ourselves working for a new manager. There is often a sense of excitement and trepidation as everyone gathers for the first team meeting to find out who’s leading...

When you think about work-life effectiveness, do you think of it as a destination, or as a continuous journey of juggling priorities? Does it mean working long hours during the week so that you have all weekend off for adventures? Or do you work a 9-5...

Very interesting question and as a front line (M1) manager this can be challenging. I am a firm believe that everyone on the team needs to have a clear attachment to the Vision. I like to work both directions… from the bottom up and the top down. First...

There is an obvious theme of uncertainty and possibly a feeling of self preservation for most during these tough economic times. Building off of yesterday's post one of the TechLeader contributors sent me an article from Seattlepi.com. The article speaks...

In today's economic cycle many people, employees, managers, (the list goes on) are fearful in whether their projects will be cut, or they will lose their jobs. I've spoken to several of my friends and colleagues around the industry and it seems as...

Today while researching topics I came across a great article written by, Elisabeth Hendrickson, in STQE (Software Testing and Quality Engineering) magazine. I understand that many technical managers of people come through the ranks and start their careers...

One of our the TeachLeaders, Paul, recently sent me a link to the following blog post regarding the Agile/Scrum methodology which is quite interesting. In terms of developing and leading a team does the makeup of the team determine the methodology...

I fully believe the best and possibly only way to do this is with transparency, as you say. Individuals know that we are in uncertain times. In the absence of a ‘dialog’ individuals will ‘create their own reality’ or make assumptions/guesses wrt how things...