Aligning IT

Episode 9: Setting yourself up for success when working from home, Episode 4 with Kevin Waters

Episode Summary

Aligning IT means creating better business outcomes. It's about aligning your business strategy and objectives with IT. Kevin runs Clear Leader Group, which aligns your business strategy with your people strategy. Kevin talks to us in Episode 4 about setting people up for success, and he takes us through some of our people "types" and what to know and expect

Episode Notes

Get the right people in the right seats on the bus (Jim Collins)

• Steady/Patient people, like it steady and don't move their cheese. When they blow it's epic. Tell them why you are changing their world. This makes work from home more stressful for folks in this category. Their productivity will increase when out of "high traffic" areas to home. 
• Understand when to work from home, and who is best suited to work from home
• There are some people who just cannot do it - it's without structure, the 80% finishers can't do it without the team pressure and specific "wins" they will lose track
• Requires understanding structure and expectations, give them good hard deadlines and last minute pressure
• Hire them right, but ensure you are also inspiring them right
• This is a chance to learn from this, discipline your talents, manage yourself well as people are going to be looking at talent in this time.