Month: October 2016

October 18, 2016

Greg Thomas

You Don’t Need to “Sell It” to Them

Want to get people to buy into your idea? Give them a piece of it. Incorporate their suggestions. Listen to them before you speak. Follow-up to their suggestions with questions. Bring them onto the team. Step back and let them run with it. In short – Make them a part of the solution. When people are a part of something, whether it’s 2 or 100 people, they become part of that something, and they want to see it turn into something bigger than themselves and the team. There is no selling here, only becoming part of something bigger.

October 17, 2016

Greg Thomas

How to Measure a Great Resource

Step 1: Take a Task that you know has a number of steps to it – let’s say 12. Step 2: Get them started on Step 1. Step 3: Wait. Step 4: Gauge where they came back and asked for help – what step were they on? Where did they get stuck? What did they do with the information you shared with them? It’s not about you helping out at Step 1 and ignoring them until they reach Step 12. It’s about figuring out how they go about getting from Step 1 to Step n (where n is how far

October 14, 2016

Greg Thomas

Don’t be Driven by External Factors

It’s easy to become seduced by the stats, page views and followers of our work. How many comments did we generate? How many leads were created? What was the conversion rate? How many followers did we garner from that last campaign? These are the External Factors – the factors we have no control over, the factors we can only influence but not control – despite our ongoing efforts. But the Internal Factors – the feeling of accomplishment, of putting our best work out there, of doing something different when we know the tried and true will “do the job” and

October 12, 2016

Greg Thomas

Can you lead when in a Technical Lead role?

Of course. Whether you’re an architect, lead developer, senior developer or anything else that focuses more on the technical solutions where you have no direct reports it’s not an optional skill, it’s a requirement. You take the lead in the architecture, the design,the creation – but also in the selling of that vision to your team, in the education of the team in how to use a component, in the deployment of that code to your customer. Good leaders wait to be told, Great leaders jump in and do it without being asked. You’re always leading, whether you know it

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