Month: July 2023

July 10, 2023

Greg Thomas

Communicating Value

There are lots of articles and blogs out there that start with… “How to get out of…” “Why you shouldn’t attend…” “How to avoid…” “Skip this if you can…” The content is generally the same and focuses on how you shouldn’t attend specific meetings. What it comes down to in any of these cases, all the time is and always will be valued. Do you bring value to the meeting?  Talk with who set it up, maybe you are missing something? Are you not sure what the point of the meeting is?  Talk with the organizer, maybe they have a

July 9, 2023

Greg Thomas

Break it Down to Basics

You can’t argue that breaking down a complex task into it’s simplest components is the best way to tackle a problem. And yet too often, we want to look at it as one, huge assuming mass and deal with it then and there. Not every fire needs a firehose, sometimes it needs smaller, more tactile options to resolve. Sometimes we need to take a step back, write them down and then move forward with them.

July 8, 2023

Greg Thomas

What is your Overload?

We each have our own limit. Where we get to the end and then we go into overload. The key part is to ensure that we don’t go beyond that, that we operate at it or below it. We also know when it’s coming and to take on more, is asking for it to happen. The worst time to worry about Overload, is when you’re already overloaded, it’s too late, you have no bandwidth. The best time, is before it happens, way before it happens, when you are so far away from it that it can’t happen.  That’s the best

July 7, 2023

Greg Thomas

Leadership By Email

Over the last two years, we led by Zoom or Email because we had to, it was the best we had to offer. But today we don’t have to, these are tools that you can use, but they are not a magical multipurpose tool that does it all. Leading my email might get your message across very clearly and concisely, but you’ll always need to follow-up to make sure everyone “gets” what you mean. Don’t let email become the only way you lead.

July 6, 2023

Greg Thomas

Lining up the Pieces

There are 85 steps you need to take to deliver that project. All 85 are important. You can’t skip one and expect to be successful. There is an order to those steps that you know are the path to success that you need to take. In your head, you can see them all coming together and working and crystalizing in front of you. But your team can’t, your stakeholders can’t and your customers definitely don’t know. If you want those 85 steps done to the best of your ability, you are going to have to sit down with your team

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