Self-development tips for tech leaders

Setting goals, managing your time, being motivated and being able to focus are all self-management skills that great IT managers cultivate.
Despite this, skills classes for managers tend to focus around time management and organization. Here are some other self-management skills, and ways you, as a manager, can work on developing them

Keep your focus on projects
Maintaining a focus on projects, the mainstay of IT, seems obvious for IT managers but it isn't easy.

This is a difficult quandary to manage through, because it is critical for you to represent your organizations in company meetings, but you also have to keep your fingers on the pulse of projects.

The solution:
When you anticipate having full days of outside meetings, come in early and take an extra hour to touch base with your project leads.You don't want make a practice of having too many overcommitted days like this, but taking that extra hour in the morning has saved many IT managers the headache of having to straighten out major issues that arose in their absence, and that they could have prevented if they'd stayed in touch.