As competition strengthens for quality IT professionals, clients frequently ask our advice on differentiating strategies to attract employees over their competitors. Often, our answer revolves around communicating standard benefits, company culture, exciting new technologies, and fun extra perks (think dress code, game rooms, etc). However, it’s becoming more evident that managers should take an extra step in order to build a better project team….attitude and expectations.
These three articles included below offer insight into advice provided by IT leaders on attracting, building, managing and retaining a better project team. Enjoy!
How to Find, Inspire and Keep Your Best Workers
In an increasingly challenging job market, five IT leaders give their best practice tips on recruiting staff, developing talent, and retaining the best technology professionals. Read full article
5 Team-Building Tips for IT
IT talent can be hard to find and even harder to keep – which means there’s plenty of incentive to make the workplace attractive to technology pros. Culture is paramount, and focusing on organizational development can lead to more satisfied and productive workers. Read full article
11 Project Management Tips for Setting and Managing Expectations
Project management experts discuss the best ways to set, manage and adjust expectations to ensure that projects don’t veer off course — and they suggest what steps project managers should take if they do. Read full article
Security Corner:
A study on U.S. mobile security shows that Millennials — many of whom are now joining the workforce — hold the greatest risk to data security over other age groups. Shorter-tenure and younger respondents tend to have lower expectations of their own responsibility… Read full article
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