For quick reference (and mine!), the following are my blog posts and podcasts on the soft skills and consulting. This idea spawned from a blog post that I did on “Skilling up in IT Consulting” – which focused on the importance of soft skills to successful consulting. There following are my personal insights in consulting and lessons that I have learned over the years I have spent consulting in a single blog post to make them easier to track down.
Commuting:
Identifying “Optimal” Commute Times
Healthy IT:
IT Consulting / Healthy IT @ Conferences
IT Consulting / (UN)Healthy IT
Lessons learned in consulting:
Looking back and predicting the future
Public Speaking:
Public speaking and the equation of fear
Successfully executing a Live Meeting as a remote presenter
On Writing:
A Plea to the Technical Community
The Community:
Advice for aspiring monitoring folks, Giving back to the technical community
Time Management:
The power of singletasking, chunking it down & a mini-sabbatical
IT Consulting: Not a series of sprints… a marathon
Misc:
Consulting, Working Conditions & Cool Technology
Podcasts:
In iTunes these are available as part of “inside podcast network”: episode #10, episode #12
These also will be available for download at: http://insidepodcastnetwork.tv/category/shows/skilling-up/
I hope that you find these useful and I look forward to adding new blog posts, podcasts and other resources as they become available here!