Month: July 2015

July 14, 2015

Greg Thomas

LinkedIn Invites Should not be about the Numbers

I used LinkedIn everyday – it is a great tool, but like any tool it sometimes gets abused and we start to develop bad habits around it. I read an article a few years ago that you should reach out to whoever you want to be associated with, the kinds of people you want to know and meet and send them a connection request on LinkedIn so you can connect with them. I’d like to update that request with a few ancillary points; If you really want to talk to them, there are many other channels other than LinkedIn to

July 10, 2015

Greg Thomas

The Coaching Toolbox

Whether it’s professional, recreational or personal we are all at some point in our lives coaches to other, helping those that work with us, look up to us or perhaps have even paid for our services – we are coaches – formal or informal. As coaches, we have the experience, we have the knowledge, we have the game play all wrapped up in our head.  We know the stats, we know what has worked and we know the drills. This is our toolbox. Our job is to share the tools within the toolbox so the people we are coaching can

July 7, 2015

Greg Thomas

A word on Improving Meetings

Meetings are horrible, albeit necessary – you need to talk with people to resolve an issue, sometimes they are not always in front of you (in an airport, at home with sick kids, in the branch office, etc) and you need to nail someone down with the hopes of getting their undivided attention.  There are two problems I see today with meetings – Engagement and Attendance. Engagement The worst part of any meeting is when you ask someone remotely to provide their thoughts and they ask you to repeat the question – not because they are trying to figure out

July 5, 2015

Greg Thomas

Inventing is the sincerest form of flattery

It’s easy to see what someone is doing, take what has worked well, copy it and try to reproduce that success.  But it’s not going to happen. Why? Because you have no idea what went into making it a success in the first part – none whatsoever.  You don’t know about the long nights and early mornings or the back and forth pacing or the countless ideas that came before it, you just know about the one.  We can all see when you copy, especially if you work in the same company, building or pod.  You took something red, you

July 4, 2015

Greg Thomas

Invest in yourself

Something I’ve been wanting to blog about for awhile is in the investment you place in yourself. Bad news – not everything is free, despite all the freemium tools out there, you could find something for everything, but eventually you’d run into limits and problems and start getting all – “well I can only do 5 posts of these a week because then I hit my cap” – really?  That is what is going to limit your potential genius being released is a cap on a tool that is for free? And aren’t you worth the investment? So, like anything, I

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