Articles for category: Drive

November 5, 2020

Greg Thomas

Outcome-Based Conversations

You might be talking a lot these days. Your calendar might be completely blue. And you might be having great discussions. But two weeks later you might also be wondering why nothing is changing and why what you thought were the actions never happened. It could be because you are not structuring your conversations around outcomes you want to see. Outcomes are bigger then agenda items, they are what you need to see happen next, what the next step is, what you want to come from these discussions. The are the next piece. If you aren’t having conversations that look

October 31, 2020

Greg Thomas

It’s Going to Be Different

But that doesn’t mean, you can’t make it better. Everything is changing and now is the chance to make the change you’ve been holding onto. If it’s already going to change, might as well put your own spin on it.

October 30, 2020

Greg Thomas

Zoom Barriers

It doesn’t matter what you’re using, you know it and I know it, there is a barrier between you and the person you’re talking to. Maybe TEAMS does it better than ZOOM. Maybe SLACK does it better than TEAMS. Maybe HANGOUTS is all you need. Maybe you’ve given up and started dialing people on your phone. Whatever it is, you know it, your team is feeling it and you need to do something about it. Not tomorrow, not next week, but today. Don’t get caught accepting any barriers that are coming up with how you interact with your team, it’s

October 23, 2020

Greg Thomas

Carve Out Time to Play

We are day in and day out in the office. Whether you are working somewhere remotely for your company or working from home, you are pulling in more bandwidth to the office then you ever thought possible. Everyone is worried about what is coming next and it’s seeping into our psyche (if it hasn’t already). If you are a consultant/contractor, you are taking on as many projects as you can right now in case of what might come next. Personal Development is going out the window because finding time is getting harder and harder. Find the time, 30 minutes, something,