Should Your Company Invest in Fun? The Happiness Dividends of Team-building Activities

July 2, 2019 Taryn Oesch Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, team development, Technology, Training in Business

Should Your Company Invest in Fun? The Happiness Dividends of Team-building Activities – Read more by Taryn Oesch on Training Industry.

Leadership Is Playing Bocce

March 13, 2019 Taryn Oesch Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, team development, Technology, Training in Business

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Soft Skills Every IT Professional Should Develop

September 13, 2017 Kathy Miller Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

IT professionals and technologists spend the majority of their time working with software or applications. Time is spent focusing on the skill sets needed to build, implement, maintain, and configure various systems or applications within organizations in order to have a cohesive and functionally operating infrastructure.

At times, however, it’s necessary to step away from the daily realm of “doing” all of the time. As odd as it may seem, it takes certain tools for successful human interaction, and while they seem like skills taught during childhood, they can sometimes be put on the backburner when focusing on the extensive technical or hard skills you spend perfecting day-in and day-out.