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Developing an IT Integration Strategy for Mergers and Acquisitions

As an IT professional, if you have been through mergers & acquisitions before, you know by now that not having a clear strategy/plan for integrating your IT systems can be disastrous. Effective IT/system integration strategy can have a huge impact on the actual business results of the integration.

There has been a lot of debate […]

Don’t Make Employees Mad with a Poorly Delivered Message

Many managers are adept at the objective parts of performance discussion performance, but nearly all of them dread initiating conversations about personal issues such as behaviors and attitudes. The traditional method by which they are taught to provide performance feedback to employees, sometimes referred to as "constructive criticism," is often the very reason they […]

Giving Your External Speaker a Chance to Speak

Why bother having external speakers for your training courses? Well, there are many reasons and it depends on what the course is trying to achieve, but a couple of obvious reasons spring easily to mind. Firstly, by bringing in someone who has real life experience of the course subject matter they can provide some […]

Your Business and Social Networking

Social networking has become a vital part of our personal and professional life. Many of us can’t wait to log on to FaceBook to see updated photos of family and friends, and who does not like keeping up with what is going on in their social circle by Tweeting through Twitter?

What […]

Performance Issues: Addressing Office Gossip

A performance issue we’ve all come across is the office gossip. The person who takes on the role of behaving like CNN to make sure everyone else hears the "news." We all have the person or people in the office who spread gossip and thrive on talking about others. This has the effect of […]