IT Leadership Training

For IT to deliver superior consulting-level results to the organization it servers, IT employees at all levels of the organization must understand how to effectively blend their technical expertise with superior communication and collaborative skills, in a wide variety of situations and with multiple stake-holder personality styles, who have varying needs and wants.

This Collaborative Consulting Skills for IT training class is specifically designed to provide technical professionals with the tools needed to provide this high level of business acumen and proactive business participation.

Congratulations! A new team at your company is being created to start work on an exciting new project and you have been selected as the team's leader. While this is a great opportunity, your new position is also highly visible and you are expected to immediately start getting results.

Most of your new team members have never met before and those who have, never worked together. Your fear, as the project manager, is that the more time your new staff needs to become a functional team, the longer it will take to begin doing meaningful work.

This training class, based on the LEAPFROG Teambuilding Accelerator methodology by Manager Mechanics, is designed to get your team up and running quickly.

A "Knowledge Worker" is best described as a person who works more with his/her mind than with his/her hands, uses trained judgment and creativity as part of his/her job, and uses professional expertise and acquired knowledge to perform needed tasks. This, in fact, is virtually everyone in IT.

This Managing Knowledge Workers training class provides unique insights, strategies, and techniques specifically designed to lead, manage, and grow the knowledge workers within IT organizations in all types of IT oriented professions.

Major long term megatrends are taking the IT industry by storm. Each of these megatrends has its own idiosyncrasies, but together they are driving the future of business computing, the type of service IT can provide to its constituency, and how IT itself is structured and managed.

In this IT Megatrends and Their Management training class, you will gain an understanding of what these trends are and how to use them to your advantage in the workplace to maximize the value of IT to your organization.

Cloud computing has been a huge topic within the Information Technology (IT) community. This Cloud Computing Management training class discusses what cloud computing is, how it affects IT organizations and how it can be employed to maximize user satisfaction and IT effectiveness & minimize expenses.

The course discusses cloud computing pros and cons from an IT perspective, implications for IT management, the potential to magnify IT resources, possible morale issues, and dealing with high user expectations, capital expenditures, data security and other important issues.

IT managers negotiate with vendors about price, delivery dates, service levels, and a myriad of other topics. They also negotiate with their business users on everything from budget to software application features. As a result, negotiation skills are a key element of both IT organizational success and individual professional career development.

This Negotiation Skills for IT Professionals training class describes negotiation styles, keys to successful negotiation, how to deal with difficult negotiation tactics, and other related topics specific to IT.