The Emerging Leaders Podcast // Fischer Homes
An official podcast of Fischer Homes, the Emerging Leaders Podcast is where we collect wisdom, strategies, and insights from proven and successful leaders to help you go further and faster as a leader.
The Emerging Leaders Podcast // Fischer Homes
34 Change Management with Shawn Roberts
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Fischer Homes
Shawn is the Chief Information and Technology Officer here at Fischer Homes, and in this episode we talk about:
- Shawn’s career story and his path to become CITO
- How pitching in extra effort to serve the team creates a Win-Win relationship for you, your career, and your organization
- How change is a challenge for every individual and organization and it needs to be managed with objective systems and processes
Timestamps:
- 2:17 - Shawn’s career story
- 7:39 - Flexibility in a growing company creates a win-win relationship
- 9:58 - Thoughts about the “c-suite,” finding your passion
- 10:55 - Behave like a boss; make his job easier
- 11:40 - The invisible IS department
- 13:53 - Being taken advantage of; job-hopping problems
- 18:15 - Change management
- 21:33 - “The key is communication”
- 24:16 - The elephant and the rider
- 25:36 - Change for change sake; Russian pencils
- 27:48 - Pervasive is down?!?
- 30:08 - The importance of empathy
- 35:26 - Maintaining a proper and positive perspective as an employee
- 38:39 - “The jobs that everyone wants are rare and valuable”
- 40:14 - Collaboration and internal drive
- 42:53 - Bag O’ Questions
- 50:19 - Key Takeaways