Information Technology (IT) Leadership Skills
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Information Technology (IT) Leadership Skills Course
Introduction:
IT leadership encompasses a group of senior executives within an organization who are responsible for managing the information technology infrastructure and applications that support and drive the overall business strategy and objectives. The top IT leader is commonly known as the chief information officer (CIO).
IT leadership encompasses various styles, such as servant leadership and paternalistic leadership. Essential leadership skills for IT leaders include a combination of soft (interpersonal) skills, technical expertise, and the ability to inspire employees to utilize IT effectively to enhance business processes.
This course is specifically designed for Information Technology managers seeking to enhance their IT leadership skills. It takes a highly practical approach, focusing on the leadership skills that have the most significant impact on business performance and career advancement. Participants will gain actionable insights and strategies to effectively lead IT teams, drive innovation, and contribute to overall organizational success.
Course Objectives:
By the end of the Information Technology (IT) Leadership Skills Course, the participants of this course will be able to:
- Construct a matrix of the competencies needed for an organization to effectively use 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 the management and strategy of a business
- Summarize the importance of aligning business and IT strategies, how this can be applied within the workplace, and the constraints and challenges of using IT
- Benchmark your organization against others within the industry and identify the key features which enable superior to the industry-average performance
Who Should Attend?
This course is ideal for:
- Executives with responsibility for digital and/or IT.
- Digital and IT managers with ambitions to rise to the top.
- Chief Information Officers (CIOs).
- IT Directors who feel that they need the ‘extra edge’
Course Outlines:
- How CIOs optimize time and activity
- Secrets of successful CIOs
- Leadership opportunities for IT professionals
- Building and maintaining reputation
- Developing a personal brand
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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