As a company in the IT industry, you face many challenges. One of the biggest challenges is customer escalations and minimizing the time consumption they create. In fact, personal services delivery managers can end up spending 40% of their day addressing customer escalations, and others in the C-suite do not fall far behind this.
Oh, the resume. The bane of many a job-seeker’s existence but the primary source of information for hiring managers and recruiters.
There are some pretty standard pieces of advice when creating your resume and some that maybe you’re not aware of. We’ve compiled all our resume tips into a comprehensive list to help you ensure that your resume isn’t doing more harm than good.
Steve Jobs was right. He said that “A small team of A players can run circles around a giant team of B and C players.” And he said that there was a huge difference between what an average person – a B player – can accomplish, and what the best person – an A player – can accomplish. He noted that A players accomplish 50-100 times more than average, B players.
It is easy to identify effective teams. Those teams meet their deadlines, produce quality results and most importantly, deliver on the mission and purpose of the team.
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In this webinar, you’ll learn how to handle IT project escalations and failures like a pro. No matter the circumstances – even if the stakes are high and emotions are charged – this session will teach you:
We all know that customer satisfaction, or the customer experience, is really important to the success of all businesses. It doesn’t matter if it’s business-to-business, or B2B, or business-to-customer, or B2C. Companies with poor customer satisfaction are guaranteed one thing: they’re going out of business...
In our last blog post, I wrote that Steve Jobs said A players are 50-100 times more productive than B or C players. Here again I mention Steve: he credited Apple’s ability to find, hire and retain A players as a key driver in the company’s unprecedented success.
Over the past 20 years Entelligence consultants have delivered over 30,000 enterprise IT projects. And what we’ve found is that the top 10% of IT consultants – the A players - have 5 traits that put them head and shoulders above the rest of the crowd.
Communication is vital to making relationships work. Whether the relationship is professional or personal, communication will continue to be a hot topic since it’s something we can all improve on. A quick Google search for “communication” yields 1,110,000,000 results while “effective communication skills” has 72,100,000 results.