Moving From IT Technician To Manager Workshop Training Course

Description

We all need management, we all need leadership and we all need direction. This means that decisions need to be made and policies must be enacted and the person to do that is the Manager. But here in IT, those decisions often involve a technical understanding so it is appropriate to promote to management from within technical ranks and it is there that IT Management all too often becomes unstuck - because of the attitudes, skills, principles and priorities of a Manager are very different from those of a technician and those huge differences are frequently difficult to grasp.

So our industry often finds itself promoting technicians who despite moving up through the ranks into new responsibilities may continue behave as technicians. Technicians who have been promoted to Manager without making the the necessary philosophical and behavioural adjustment might be tempted to conclude that management is just about 'being the boss'. The results can be detrimental and a Manager who has not yet grasped how to fill their day with managerial tasks rather than technical functions may bring particular risks such as:

The technical department ceases to move forward because its Manager is still reacting to demands as a technician, rather than becoming a strategist and planner.

The team may harbour resentment because they see their new superior pay more but in effect still doing the same job he did as a technician so his appointment brings no new benefit to them or perhaps others feel themselves equally qualified for the management job and its higher salary so fail to respect the appointment.

The department remains distant from the rest of IT Management because its head does not comprehend managerial issues and priorities.

The promoted technician does not know how to fill their day with managerial functions so in order to be seen to do something with their time, they merely issue orders and allocate the most complex technical tasks to themselves.