How to Help Your Team Trust You as a Manager

Managers must do more than be straight shooters and do hard work to gain their team’s trust. What’s also needed are small gestures of kindness that lets their teams know they care. Read more from a passage of “Trust Me - Restore Belief & Confidence in an Uncertain World.”
Date Published December 6, 2021 - Last Updated January 20, 2023

3 Ways to Overcome WFH Fatigue in Your IT Department

More tickets, less human contact is a recipe for burnout. Here are some concrete suggestions for how to help ensure your IT support team isn’t feeling overwhelmed. It may take a different strategy to dig out of the mountain of tickets, but it’s better than risking attrition.
Date Published December 2, 2021 - Last Updated December 16, 2021

Pay Attention to Customer Journeys Before Automating Support

Initiatives to integrate chatbots or voice recognition tools that do not take the customer’s experience into account may be doomed to failure. Here’s why taking the time to map out the customer journey may save a lot of headaches for automation efforts.
Date Published December 2, 2021 - Last Updated December 16, 2021

Be Proactive to Prevent Staffing Holes

We all know that we have two weeks, at most, to fill a position, but too often we are stuck either hiring warm bodies or putting extra workload on our team. It’s better to prepare for the inevitable departures. Here’s how.
Date Published December 2, 2021 - Last Updated January 20, 2023

Date Published December 2, 2021 - Last Updated January 6, 2023

Following the Leaders: A Panel Discussion on Making Enterprise Service Management Work

 

According to recent insights from Omdia, there is “serious strategic intent from organizations to invest in … enterprise service management (ESM), demonstrating that the practice is no longer just an aspiration for many organizations and is becoming a reality...

Date Published December 2, 2021 - Last Updated December 13, 2021

How to Deliver High-Touch, Digital-First Tech Support

 

The pandemic forced a dramatic shift towards digital-first...

Date Published December 2, 2021 - Last Updated January 6, 2023

Navigating the Value Stream: Applying ITIL4 to Modern Service Management

 

Accelerate the digital enterprise using the principles of ITIL. ITIL best practices help increase the speed and success of your products and services and enable faster time to value.

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Why Courage Matters in IT Management

A lifelong quest to find the universal values all humans seek out leads an IT manager to understand the importance of taking the hard stances to best support a team or a company. Here’s why he thinks courage might be the most important trait in this industry.
Date Published November 22, 2021 - Last Updated January 20, 2023

5 More Things I Hate About Change

Change is hard, especially when human nature creates some very predictable and unreasonable workarounds to a perfectly good change management process. In part two of this series, here are five more pitfalls to change management, and how to do your best to avoid them.
Date Published November 18, 2021 - Last Updated January 20, 2023