Career leadership in IT

Does career growth and loyalty happen naturally within business environments? Every business owner would probably wish it did. But is there any truth to such wishful thinking? Can a person’s career in a business be anything more than just an employee-employer relationship, where both parties merely benefit from their contractual agreement?

Does career growth and loyalty happen naturally within business environments? Every business owner would probably wish it did. But is there any truth to such wishful thinking? Can a person’s career in a business be anything more than just an employee-employer relationship, where both parties merely benefit from their contractual agreement?

How can we facilitate empathy and compassion into our career paths? How can we deal with extremely long feedback loops, and delayed gratification of seeing the results of your efforts? Is it worth the time and effort to care? All of these are valid questions, especially in times where human connection is often disappearing behind digital screens and all sorts of apps that are supposed to support collaboration.

To talk about all of this, our next guest is Hannes Lowette, a developer turned mentor, coach and a person contributing to the learning culture at Axxes for the last 15 years. He finds that careers not being a zero sum game is something to reach for and we can all win! He believes that bringing empathy and compassion to the job can change people’s growth tremendously! As he says: “I get out of bed to help others succeed.”

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