Title : Chief Technology Officer

Company : CORE Data Centres

The pandemic and organic acceleration of digital transformation at an enterprise level has yielded big business for the data centre sector . Increased demand , and unique issues requiring equally singular solutions have kept designers and engineers busy . The fast-paced situation has placed great pressure on even the best teams juggling workloads with internal goals . But company culture and the people behind the job titles remain invaluable , Henneberry believes .

“ I try to hire people that enjoy what they do . The whole environment here is : you make your bed , you say you ’ re going to do something , get it done , bottom line . We ’ re not the type of people that feel the need to micromanage . Inevitably there will be times when the clients are going to give you a hard time , and you ’ ve got to work through that process . You have to listen , you have to learn . And if you make a mistake , you say we made a mistake and we ’ ll fix it .”

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Placing power into employees ’ hands is one of the best ways to develop a world-leading team .

“ So , bottom line , I think the culture here is good ,” Henneberry says . “ Those are the type of people we have working here , and that I like to work with . But we all need to have fun at work , too . Obviously , in these crazy times , I think we all need to have a little bit of fun . I ’ ve got a ping pong table in the back , and sometimes we ’ ll just go play ping pong for half an hour . It ’ s good to burn off some steam . datacentremagazine . com