Now that I am back from the AUTM annual meeting, I have some time to reflect on the last couple weeks. The first event I attended was the EDUCAUSE Institute Management Program which was a week long management and leadership seminar for IT professionals working in higher education. The program is taught by IT managers and leaders from all over the country including CIOs, IT directors, and librarians. The individual sessions covered a lot of management and leadership issues from the state of IT in higher education to developing an organizational culture to effective teams. The following are a few of the highlights for me and what I was able to take away from the week.

This week I attended the EDUCAUSE Management Institute, and it was just amazing. It was four days of management and leadership sessions for IT managers in higher education. It was one of those things that can potentially alter the course of your career. I'll have some more comments in a few days when I have a bit more time.

As IT professionals and managers, we usually reached our position by showing a good degree of technical proficiency. However, we may not have to show a lot of people skills in order to get where we are. This panel at the campus IT professional conference for the University of Illinois was put together to help guide IT professionals on relationship management. It was nice that the campus has the sorts of resources to record events like this because it means other people can get a chance to hear it.

Watch and listen to Tom Kunka, Chuck Thompson, and me talk about the relationship side of IT.