Be careful to avoid any of these 10 ways to kill your IT culture!
CIO.com reported “Transformational CIOs recognize the importance of IT culture in delivering innovation, accelerating business impacts, and reducing operational and security risks. Without a strong IT culture, inspiring IT teams to extend beyond their “run the business” responsibilities into areas requiring collaboration between business colleagues, data scientists, and partners is challenging.” The November 12, 2024 article entitled "10 ways to kill your IT culture” (https://tinyurl.com/4zt5wstj) included the comments about “#2 Asking for IT’s opinions and ignoring their feedback”:
Even when the CIO isn’t micromanaging, IT employees can easily sense when leaders aren’t listening to their feedback and suggestions.
“One of my golden rules is, ‘Your opinion matters,’ but if you want to demotivate and demoralize your team, just ask for input and then consistently ignore it,” says Joe Puglisi, growth strategist and fractional CIO at 10Xnewco. “Before long, you will have a silent and frustrated group of employees.”
CIOs can avoid this culture-killing behavior by responding to opinions and feedback, even if it’s not immediate. Top leaders repeat what they heard and capture feedback in a management tool. This gives leaders time to review options, illustrate when feedback generates changes, and demonstrate that leaders care about people’s opinions.
Here are all 10 ways:
1. Resorting to micromanagement or command-and-control
2. Asking for IT’s opinions and ignoring their feedback
3. Crushing hybrid work and work-life balance
4. Lacking a pragmatic vision that inspires change
5. Overcommitting and leaving teams defenseless
6. Promoting agile culture without stakeholder adoption
7. Failing to communicate pivots and strategic changes
8. Amplifying technical jargon undermines credibility
9. Accepting team and individual underperformance
10. Finger-pointing mistakes and taking all the credit
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