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By Jim Steinlage, President & CEO of Choice Solutions As businesses enter the second year of a global pandemic they will need to put much of their focus on digital security solutions but not at the expense of the employee experience. Those most impacted are ones who work fully or in part from home. A challenge for IT and HR…

Jim Steinlage, President & CEO of Choice Solutions A company and its culture are only as healthy as the team that comprises it. Many people, because of the shift to more in-home and remote working, aren’t exercising their minds, bodies, and spirits adequately. Organizations have increased pressure to do more with fewer resources. Technology, which everyone praises for the flexibility…

Jim Steinlage, President & CEO of Choice Solutions, Remote work, AI, intelligent work spaces, and rapidly changing consumer trends are just a few of the technology movements we can see driving businesses in the future. They all reflect a radical shift in how the workplace and workforce are changing. Everything IT should support the business. Ensuring that IT aligns to…

Jim Steinlage, President & CEO of Choice Solutions, Businesses focused on employee experience (EX) tend to have a strong company culture, greater employee engagement, and higher levels of employee satisfaction and measurably better productivity. The most satisfied employees are the ones whose organizations give them the ability to get their most important work done.  The pandemic has dramatically changed how…

Jim Steinlage, President & CEO of Choice Solutions, Does your organization view creativity and innovation as business assets? It should be a way of thinking for your team, especially during these times. You may not get too many at bats, so recognizing and seizing opportunities while avoiding setbacks will require imagination, inventiveness, and outside-the-box thinking. A Recent Gallup Study found…

Jim Steinlage, President & CEO of Choice Solutions, It is important that an organization’s leaders’ actions deliver a calm, focused, consistent message that shows empathy and  emphasizes “we’re all in this together” during these unchartered, “new-norm” times. Those characteristics were true before the current health crisis and are even more critical now. Until 2020, pandemics and outbreaks were things we…

Jim Steinlage, President & CEO of Choice Solutions, Updating disaster recovery plans, implementing much-needed automation, and protecting data have been at the top of the list for IT teams for some time, but for some organizations it never made the priority at all. Recruiting and retaining talent has been added to the list by HR for IT to help assist…

Jim Steinlage, President & CEO of Choice Solutions, COVID-19 has definitely pressurized the system when it comes to IT and telecom infrastructures. It wasn’t long after state and local governments started enforcing physical distancing and shelter-in-place mandates in March of this year that networks began feeling the strain, especially those who played the game of over subscribing bandwidth. COVID-19 could…

Jim Steinlage, President & CEO of Choice Solutions, In many ways, the organizational shock waves and changes brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic are still unknown, but one thing for sure is that it has forced organizations to become more versatile and open-minded. Many organizations have transitioned to entirely remote operations, while others that were considered essential moved quickly to…

Jim Steinlage, President & CEO of Choice Solutions, It’s possible when we looked back at the COVID-19 pandemic it will be viewed as the time when how people work fundamentally changed. There’s no denying the immediate impact has been massive. The coronavirus pandemic and subsequent stay-at-home orders have made employees working from home the new normal for more than 80%…