Diversity of Staff Diversity Challenges IT Leaders
They say that the world is a smaller place – I think they might be right. IT leaders are starting to realize that finding ways to manage their team staff so that they quickly change from being political to being now into business needs. Does anyone have advice on the best way to do this?
Problem
Most IT departments are no longer single-site operations. In fact, with the growth of outsourcing a single IT department can now have offices in several countries: China, India, Russia, etc. This type of distributed operation is a great way to ensure that more work is done at a lower price; however, this also poses significant staff challenges for IT Leaders.
It’s too easy to think that we can take a number of high-performance IT leaders from the U.S., put them in one of our remote offices and make them effective leaders. The reality is that too often, this does not work. If you have not prepared someone on your team to enter and run/interface with the remote office, then they will not be able to do it.
In the U.S., IT managers are encouraged to use honest conversation and direct confrontation to deal with team issues. However, especially when dealing with the team at Asis, this can be considered rude and offensive.
What Do IT Leaders Do?
The trick to solving IT staff challenges for remote offices or just dealing with remote offices is to create what experts call “talent plans”. Doing this will …
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