Dr. Joanne Sujansky is an international keynote speaker, author and consultant who has worked with leaders to make their workplaces more productive and profitable. Her energy and enthusiasm have touched audiences’ hearts and minds for over twenty-five years.
Among the organizations that have called upon Joanne to deliver speeches and provide consulting are: GlaxoSmithKline, PPG Industries, Inc., US Steel Corporation, American Express-Sweden, AT&T, Meeting Professionals International, US. Postal Service, IBM, Society for Automotive Engineers International, T. Rowe Price, Mayo Clinic and Volkswagen, Audi, Porsche. She is the author of numerous books on leadership, change and retention.
Joanne is an award-winning entrepreneur who founded KEYGroup, an international training and assessment company. She is past National President of the American Society for Training and Development, and is a recipient of their highest honor, the Gordon M. Bliss Award. Joanne is an active member of the National Speakers Association, and holds their highest earned designation, Certified Speaking Professional.
The jargon of the IT industry is often confusing for outsiders, which is something to consider when giving a presentation. When speaking to professionals outside of the IT community, be wary of brushing over terminology like HTML or data warehousing that, while familiar to you, is completely foreign to your audience.
Maintaining resilience and combating stress are major issues for the IT professional. Resilient employees are the ones who can easily bounce back from a stressful event. They do more than just recover. They often come out stronger than before. Employees in a resilient work culture can shake off frustration and move on.
Generation Y employees pose the biggest challenge to their managers, but in order to stay competitive, companies must develop a good work environment that appeals to these in-demand employees.
Coaching has been accepted by the business world as a useful tool. Not only can coaching solve disputes, but it can also prevent new ones. It's not easy, and it takes a significant amount of effort, but coaching works.
Generation Y employees often have different needs and expectations than other employees, and may respond to a good coach. Here are five coaching tips to keep Gen Y employees motivated and productive.
Teamwork is made even more complex as employees increasingly work at a distance from one another. While sophisticated communication devices allow team members to collaborate on a project from different locations across the country, there are also some less technology-centric ways of encouraging teamwork.
Here are seven tips to help maintain and strengthen the IT department's teamwork and cohesion.
Sidekick: The Good News & the Bad News Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
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