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 [...]
Coach as a Mentor Coach
Posted on 19. Oct, 2009 by Coach in Blog, How coaching works
Coaching for Personal Growth
Posted on 19. Oct, 2009 by Coach in Blog, Coaching Benefits, How coaching works
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 [...]
Communication Skills
Posted on 19. Oct, 2009 by Coach in Blog, Enterprise Architect Training
The IT architect is a communication hub between company management, end users, systems developers and other stakeholders. If an architect fails to communicate clearly, it can mean a conceptual breakdown further down the line if talking to developers, elevated costs and animosity if dealing with project managers or even project cancellation when talking to upper [...]
Is Coaching For You?
Posted on 19. Oct, 2009 by Coach in Choosing an architect coach, Why Use An Enterprise Architecture Coach
Is IT Architect coaching for you? A good question so let’s discover the secret behind successful people. We all know the use of coaching by athletes, but did you know that people like Bill Gates, Paul Newman, Oprah Winfrey, and even Eleanor Roosevelt had coaches or mentors to guide them. If you ask those people [...]
IT Architects Need Good Habits
Posted on 19. Oct, 2009 by Coach in Blog
Top IT architects are products of their habits. Average people think that habits are something they need to break, such as eating too much or smoking. Peak performers know that successful habits are what create their success. Every day the successful IT architect reinforces success habits even such things as exercise, proper diet, being punctual [...]
Should I Hire an IT Architect Career Coach?
Posted on 19. Oct, 2009 by Coach in Choosing an architect coach, Why Use An Enterprise Architecture Coach
There are lots of reasons why a junior or new enterprise architect should hire a mentor/coach. There are a number of skills that can only be really developed under the focused leadership of someone who has “been through the mill”. For instance do you understand the decisions and constraints in the wider scheme of things [...]