 You know early in my career thinking about leadership. You just did the job and so from this seat looking backwards I would say advocate for professional development understand what professional development is I'll be outside of your area of expertise Advocate for that look for attach yourself to mentors who can help you Grow so the second thing I would do when I think about what technology is today in the organization is I would be a much stronger advocate for the user and what the user is trying to accomplish within the organization I would really make sure that I was bringing back what I was learning from user I'd make sure I was out with our users and our colleagues making sure I understood it and just really focus on building that voice because The leaders that grow up in IT and become IT leaders have to understand that that's what we do The third thing if you think you want to be a leader within an IT organization, don't stay in your niche in IT Understand what your colleagues are working on what projects are they a part of how are they serving the community? How is it all tied together be that team member that can actually have a conversation about what the others are doing? So you understand holistically what is happening in IT? What do we do what are our roles in an IT organization? If you get in a large one you may become fairly segregated from some of those roles so be intentional about learning What does my what does my team do?