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What would you call this job?

Submitted by mikeb on Mon, 11/15/2010 - 09:48

For some time, I have felt that my next job has to have two of three traits:

  1. Strategic - includes strategic planning and vision for the organization, can be a unit of a larger organization but must still be strategic
  2. Staff leadership and management - having a team of direct reports, no specific level
  3. IT pro development - develops the non-technical skills - including leadership - of IT professionals primarily, but also their technical skills

After doing some thinking with "I" time, I believe I can narrow this down to simply points 1 and 3 - a position that includes strategic planning and developing IT professionals. The problem is that I'm not quite sure what to call this path as it doesn't fit nicely with job titles that I can imagine. The sub-problem is that these things are often doable as subsets of other jobs.
To try to narrow it a bit more, I've been thinking about other details of what I want to do and what I'm good at doing. Unfortunately, I still don't know what to call it:

  • Thinking strategically - looking ahead and identifying SWOT items
  • Getting others to think beyond the status quo
  • Breaking a larger project into more easily digestable and doable items
  • Identifying the need for change and aligning others
  • Building relationships and networks to bring about change
  • Helping groups work towards conclusion
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