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Our Guide to Fractional CIO Services

Discover how engaging a fractional CIO will elevate your SME's IT strategy. Learn the benefits of our own community-driven approach, as well as actionable steps you can take to more confidently select services that will bring top-tier expertise to scale your operations.
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Choose Your Peers Wisely

Learn how surrounding yourself with the right professional peers can dramatically reshape your tech leadership success. Engage with top CIOs, CTOs, and IT executives to gain critical insights, cover your blind spots, and navigate challenges with unprecedented confidence.
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Experience the Advantage of CIO Mastermind

Have you heard about CIO Mastermind's elite peer groups for tech leaders? Find out all you need to know about these exclusive, insightful discussions. Explore our collaborative network of C-suite professionals working to tackle challenges and help one another level up.
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An Introduction to Assertive Communication: The Key to Strong Workplace Relationships

How can assertive communication help you build strong workplace dynamics and enhance team productivity? Learn how to navigate office relationships, resolve conflicts, and develop trust through more open, honest and respectful connections as a leader within your organization.
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Dealing with Isolation in the C-Suite

Break free from the isolation of leadership with an insightful, supportive peer advisory group. Discover the power of these collaborative environments so you can navigate the complexities of the C-suite with confidence and resilience.
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Ending the Isolation: A Conversation with Scott Smeester on Modern CTO

Scott Smeester's discussion on the Modern CTO podcast with Joel Beasley addresses the isolation often felt by tech leaders and the importance of community and mentorship in overcoming it. Highlighting key leadership skills like effective listening and strategic questioning, Scott emphasizes the need for tech leaders to extend beyond technical know-how to embrace innovation and collaboration. This conversation underlines the transformative power of support networks for personal and professional growth in the tech industry.
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Leadership Blogs

When Process And Technology Are Not Enough: An Interview With CIO Of The Year Nominee Jeff Cann

An effective CIO shows us ways to invest in ourselves and dig deep the well of our identity, capacity and destiny.
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You Only Learned This If It Was Done To You: How CIOs Close The Talent Gap

Mentoring isn’t often taught in CIO leadership development. Four skills are needed: assessment, coaching, training and support.
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The Main Reason CIOs And IT Leaders Will Resolve The Talent Gap

Great leaders are multipliers. And you must be; it’s not just the company that needs you to do so, it’s your country and your legacy that needs you to do it.
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When Good Ideas Go Bad :: How CIO's Avoid Idea-Waste

Leaders are thinkers. But good ideas go to waste. For your idea to thrive, you need to avoid four pitfalls and traverse four avenues of idea fruition.
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How CIOs and CEOs Navigate The Hype And The Hope Of Citizen Development, Part 2

The answer to talent gaps, backlogs and shadow IT is Citizen Development. It’s not a fad, it’s a movement, and one you must lead and shape to resolve challenges you still face and will face more of in years ahead.
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How CIOs And CEOs Navigate The Hype And Hope Of Citizen Development, Part 1

CIOs and CEOs need a cohesive strategy to counter the technology talent gap, backlog and shadow IT. Citizen Development is the framework that will get it done.
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