Month: November 2020

November 20, 2020

Greg Thomas

The Lessons You Will Learn

This year, they are not the lessons you set out in your resolutions. They are not the ones you stayed up late at night, excited to accomplish. They are not the ones that will necessarily help in your career path. Indirectly most likely, but not directly. The lessons you learn, will push you harder than you thought possible. They will make you rethink your decisions. They will give you pause. And just when you think you have figured it all out, they will force you to figure it out all again. There are lessons to be learned this year of

November 19, 2020

Greg Thomas

The Contractor’s Value

The contractor is someone you bring in to do a job you have little or no knowledge in how to accomplish in a timely fashion that you have deemed acceptable. Read that again – you haven’t asked them how long it’s going to take (because you don’t know) but you will give them the timeline they have to work against. Its not the most ideal of circumstances for any person and a new opportunity usually comes with its own level of confusion to start. If you get someone that tells you the hoops and hurdles they will have to go

November 18, 2020

Greg Thomas

The Cue

Not the Trigger. But the Cue. The Cue is different from the trigger. The trigger gets us angry, gets us mad, makes us unfocused and frustrated. It pushes us to places we don’t need to be going to. But the Cue? The cue is our internal notification that we are needed, that it’s time to step up, that someone needs our help, that it’s time to jump in, help and grow the team. Take the cue, ignore the trigger.

November 17, 2020

Greg Thomas

When the News is THAT Good

Everyone hears it. It swells up in all of us. It stays with us for days after it is announced. And it is our job to keep that feeling going for weeks and weeks after it happens. That is how important it is.

November 16, 2020

Greg Thomas

Old Remote Tool Excitement

Yes, we all have remote fatigue. But remember the excitement you had the first time you started up ICQ with this incredibly simple username that was easy to remember that you then used to login and connect with people not only in your office but remotely? I remember the first time I could chat at my desk with my wife at work using GTalk. Maybe what you don’t need is the latest, fanciest and greatest tool for your team so they can have high-def video. Maybe what you need to do is recapture the excitement and fun of being remote.

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