10 reasons IT managers fail to exceed your expectations [Video]

From not having the training, to hitting a wall due to unbalanced demands, IT managers can hold back teams from delivering high-performance results. Here’s how to help them navigate common roadblocks.

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Building a great team is one of the most critical tasks for any CIO. It’s also one of the most challenging. In fact, research firm Gartner named IT talent strategy as one of five common CIO pain points that will persist through 2025.

But to assemble a high-performance team today, CIOs must pay particular attention to their management ranks. Good managers are key not only to recruiting and retaining the bulk of the IT workforce but also to ensuring IT work gets done and is done well.

“It’s the CIO’s responsibility to help those managers succeed,” says Ken Piddington, vice president and CIO of US Silica and a CIO adviser with an admitted “passion for talent development.”

Yet, despite the managers’ criticality for enterprise success, Piddington and others …