Leadership for IT Training Course
In the sphere of IT leadership, a variety of approaches exist, spanning from servant leadership to paternalistic styles. Key attributes in this domain include soft (interpersonal) skills, hard skills, and the ability to motivate staff to leverage IT for process improvement.
This course is specifically designed for Information Technology managers who wish to hone their IT leadership capabilities. With a strong focus on practicality, it explores the leadership competencies that significantly impact both business effectiveness and professional growth.
Objectives:
- Develop a matrix of competencies required for an organisation to effectively utilise new technologies in business practice.
- Explain how digital technologies such as mobile apps, the Internet of Things, Cloud computing, and data analytics can be applied to enhance business management and strategy.
- Summarise the importance of aligning business and IT strategies, how this can be implemented in the workplace, and the constraints and challenges associated with using IT.
- Benchmark your organisation against others in the industry and identify the key features that enable superior performance compared to the industry average.
Who should attend?
- Executives responsible for digital and/or IT.
- Digital and IT managers with ambitions to advance to senior roles.
- Chief Information Officers (CIOs).
- IT Directors seeking that 'extra edge'.
Course Outline
Day 1
- How CIOs optimize time and activity
- Secrets of successful CIOs
- Leadership opportunities for IT professionals
- Building and maintaining reputation
- Developing a personal brand
Day 2
- Assessing your style of leadership
- Recognizing leadership styles in others
- Influencing strategies for the different leadership styles
- Corporate politics — the inside track
- Developing successful political networks
Day 3
- A model for high performing IT teams
- Understanding your team’s dynamics
- Building and motivating IT teams
- Developing staff in real time
- Organizing IT teams to maximize performance
Day 4
- The process of innovation and the creative mind-set
- Techniques to foster innovation
- The importance of technology in innovation
- Selecting the best innovation ideas
- Lanterns to the future — creating technology vision
Day 5
- T leaders at board level — what CEOs look for
- The responsibilities of IT corporate leadership
- A process model for IT to business alignment
- Technology governance structures
- IT’s brand – aligning reality and perception
Requirements
N/A
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