Month: May 2018

May 17, 2018

Greg Thomas

Your Favourite Meal

If you had your favourite meal each day, every day, how long would it take until it stopped being your favourite? Two days? A week? A month? Longer? Maybe you started off in a job you really liked.  It was the perfect job, the bestest job in the world. But you’ve been doing it for 5 years and the last year you know you’ve been going through the motions so the “favourite” part is kind of dead to you. So what’s next, where do you go from here?  Is it no longer your favourite?  Is it time to do the 360

May 15, 2018

Greg Thomas

Digging Out of a Mountain

Start at the bottom. Work your way up. Or get a bigger shovel. Or maybe a smaller one. Wait, sorry I got it wrong, yes start at the top, it’s easy pickings. Actually, that’s a good idea too, go for the easy pickings and the big wins and then focus on the harder stuff. My bad, focus on the riskier items first, that way you are able to test them longer and get the hard stuff out of the way. Has someone done this before?  Maybe you can ask for advice. Or maybe there’s an online course you can take

May 11, 2018

Greg Thomas

Leaders get it wrong

Substitute the word Leader for… Mentor Manager Supervisor Coach Team Lead Project Lead Senior of ___________ Head of __________ Dean of _________ CEO And the list goes on. What doesn’t go on is our patience when people in these positions fail. We harp on “failure is awesome”, “everyone fail“, “failing helps you grow” until the people in those positions fail. I’ve tried a lot of different ideas out as a Manager, Leader, VP, whatever the role – some worked, some didn’t, some were abject failures that I shook my head at when all was said was done. That’s life, that’s

May 10, 2018

Greg Thomas

Delivering the Bad News

The first thing that entered your mind: You messed up, you made a mistake, I can’t believe you are here, what a waste of time. The first thing that should come out of your mouth: You did well on X, Y needs some work, here’s what we’re going to do to get you there. Your first thought gets out all your frustrations, in your head but is not the delivery your team needs. The person on your team already knows they screwed up, they don’t need to hear it in stereo. What they need to hear is where do they

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