Research update - is your team fit for the future?
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By Robin Neidorf

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Does your team have the consultancy and influencing skills needed to be a true strategic partner to the business? Find out how our latest Research Focus can help.

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Consulting, communications and persuasion are the most important skills to cultivate for a successful information team. 

That's the first insight of the current Research Focus, "The information team with the right stuff".

You can request a free copy of our Insights and Actions report (or, as a Jinfo Subscriber, download your copy here) to learn the four steps we recommend you take to cultivate the team that can meet the future.

Insights live when you interact

It's one thing to read about insights; it's quite another to interact with them and with your peers around them:

• Career guru Kim Dority will be presenting with me in our webinar on May 8th, "Identifying your team's skill gaps". Register now, and prepare to be inspired and challenged.
  
  
• The information managers from a major insurance firm will share their experiences with consultancy skill development with a stable team and with new headcount in the next Community session, "Does everyone on your team need great communication skills?" on 10th May. Yes, even the introverts on your team have a critical role to play - they'll explain what they've learned.

Your Jinfo Subscription makes these events available to you.

At the upcoming Perfect Information Conference in Oxford in May, I am leading a panel on "The information team with the right stuff". I expect delegates to have plenty to discuss about resistance to change, where to find these skills and how these priorities shape hiring and development.

If you've been on the fence about joining this extraordinary event, register with the code JINFO to receive a 20% discount.

However you prefer to do it, I encourage you to engage with these insights. Raise them in team meetings. Talk about them at networking events. Bring in Jinfo Consulting to work directly with your team - ask me how today.

That's the way we create the future.

This item was featured in the most recent Jinfo Newsletter. The Jinfo Newsletter brings you updates on Jinfo's research, latest resources and tips. If you're not yet receiving it, register here (free).

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