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Second guessing a decision?  Feeling overwhelmed in the muck of your new enterprise architect role?  Why not spend thirty minutes bouncing your issues off of a professional coach? I’ve had people call with various technologies they were considering, political issues in their company that are affecting their sanity and their EA programs, and confusion over [...]

It’s very easy to lose your way in life. You could get stuck in a job just because it’s handy for home and you like the people that work there. Why would you want to go through all the stress involved in moving to another position? But one day you might wake up and think [...]

Before you begin any journey it’s a good idea to know where you’re going. You wouldn’t begin a trip to the airport without first looking at a map. So don’t do the same with your life and career. One of the things your IT Architecture coach will do is sit down and establish what you [...]

Coaching isn’t for everyone, as obtaining the services of an IT Architecture coach involves having deep and sometimes personal conversations, during which time you’ll discuss areas of your professional life which you consider yourself to be weak on and would like to improve. The main reason people choose to employ the services of an IT [...]

Enlisting the services of an IT Architecture coach to help with your career is going to involve a significant amount of time and money on your part. Like anything else in life what you get out of coaching will depend on what you put in. So we’ve created this guide to help you get the [...]

If you’re trying to decide if IT Architecture coaching is for you, it may help to understand exactly what your coach will do and how it all works. We’ve created this article to give you a better understanding of coaching. Basically career coaching provides support to an individual to help them find ways in which [...]

Once you’ve decided to make use of an IT Architecture coach, one of the first things they will do is establish where you are and where you want to be in 5 or 10 years time. To help them do this they’ll create a written plan which you both will refer to throughout your time [...]

Do I want a mentor or a coach or a healthy combination of both? Coaching and mentoring are not the same thing. Mentoring is a relationship between a more experienced person, the mentor, and a less experienced person, the student. Mentoring usually involves giving advice within a specific industry. An enterprise architecture mentor certainly has [...]

A coach can help you speed up your natural learning curve in ways you can’t do alone. Successful IT architects are committed to never-ending personal and professional growth. They realize that when they graduate it’s only the beginning of the road, not the end. It seems that professional performers try so many things over the [...]