Month: October 2023

October 21, 2023

Greg Thomas

What Matters to the Team isn’t what Matters to the Individual

The team needs a leader, the individual needs a mentor. You lead the team, by connecting with the individuals and figuring out what they need to buy into the vision.  Some will resist, they can’t see it on the first, the second, or the eighteenth day. They have different viewpoints, different goals, and different ideas – the leader brings them into the focus of the team, not ignoring them but finding how they connect to the team’s vision so what the individual needs help with lines up with what the team needs.

October 20, 2023

Greg Thomas

Build Trust Fast

The fastest way to build trust is to get everyone onto one page. We’re on this journey together, no one is getting off, we’ll see it through, whatever happens. We aren’t looking for experts, rockstars, ninjas, or gurus to solve our problems with and gift them all the problems we have – we are looking for someone to be there with us, to work with us, to support us and not leave partway through. Trust requires showing up every day, that’s the hard part, it’s incremental.  When you’re starting with a new team that needs to “deliver” immediately, you need

October 19, 2023

Greg Thomas

Changing Habits

Start small, master the small, get really scary good at it, keep track of it and how you are doing. And then add more. But don’t add until you’ve mastered the first small thing. Otherwise, it’s simply a set of experiments you are doing (not bad either) but not the goal.

October 18, 2023

Greg Thomas

A Team Needs…

A team needs principles, tenets, values, a mantra, a song, a theme… They need something they can get behind, something they can always fall back on when they are not sure what to do. If you’re making one for your team, some thoughts; Don’t do it by yourself – it can be a great team exercise. Keep it digestible – a page, a print-out, something that can be viewed everywhere and anywhere and doesn’t require scrolling to “get to it”. Call Back to It – Don’t just talk to it, call back to it every single time you are doing

October 17, 2023

Greg Thomas

The Simple One-On-One Walk

Some of my most memorable one-on-ones have been a walk to get a coffee (or let’s be honest tea). They are not planned, they are not structured and they start with a simple question – “How is it going?” or “What do you think of this?”. You don’t need to make them a complex lunch, planning session, build-up that takes 1 hour. Most times you’ll get more out of that relaxed 15 min discussion.

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