Last K nown Issue 2011.10

We all manage our teams in our own unique ways.  Some organisations have strict compliance issues when it comes to managing performance, others don’t have any systems in place to manage people at all – and if you’re like me you probably come somewhere in the middle, not wanting to be too rigid but ensuring that the people around you get to share their feedback with you and vice versa.  In a perfect world this can all be tracked online in a piece of software that provides you with the right framework to provide regular performance reviews and performance management tools.

This past few weeks I’ve spent trying out different HR products because I wanted to choose a product that would work for I Know IT and also find a product that might suit readers of the Last Known Issue [...]

Microsoft, Your Potential, Our Passion? That’s an inspiring brand message but after spending the past few days at Microsoft APC 2010, Microsofts big shindig for Australian Partners I wasn’t left feeling so sure.

Today I am inspired to write about passion.

During the 3 day conference codenamed “Infinite Possibilities” delegates are invited to attend a series of breakout sessions to help us grow our businesses or so one might hope.

Perhaps it was the session labelled “Building Global Channels – Ten steps to world domination” where the presenter pulled up a slide with a picture of a sleeping dog [...]