Articles for category: Growth

January 10, 2023

Greg Thomas

Creating your New Job

You can create a new job in your current job. You can show up differently. You can take on different tasks and tweak the process to get them done. You can automate your most mundane work to focus on the value-enriching work. You can cancel that update meeting and work through whatever you were going to talk about it and send out the update in an easy-to-read update or post to the team. You can’t change it all on the first day, but you can tweak your way to changing it until it looks completely different. You just have to

January 6, 2023

Greg Thomas

The Cold Open

My favourite part of Remotely Prepared was the Cold Opens.  I saw them almost as these little microblogs that got the idea out to everyone as to what we were to discuss and had them interested to stay for the rest of the show. It’s why they are used so heavily in TV, if you can grab the audience in 30 seconds, they’ll stay for the remaining hour to see what happens.  If we apply this to our sales pitches, our conversations, our code, our meetings, and everything we do – then we spend more time on the message we

December 29, 2022

Greg Thomas

The Successful Moment

The learning moments happen when something goes wrong, but they aren’t about the “whole” thing. The release might be late, but there was a moment when a developer jumped in and wrote some missing test cases for QA that helped them out. Or when a QA resource went in and grabbed all the extra bugs ready to be invalidated and ran through them. Or when someone started commenting on their code better. Within everything, there are successful moments of growth where you, the Leader, have to take the time to acknowledge them. You won’t always be perfect, but you can

December 28, 2022

Greg Thomas

Are you Coachable?

Do you listen to feedback? (Not hear it). Do you take input from others and go out and try what they ask? Do you get mad when someone tells you you were not doing it the way you’ve practiced? Do you get frustrated when someone points out what you’ve done wrong? Do you argue about the feedback you are being given instead of processing it? The answers to these questions will tell you if you are a coachable person.

December 26, 2022

Greg Thomas

What the Day of Boxes should be

I have a similar picture from when my children were young, we had bought new chairs and had all these boxes so we made this weird box fort in the basement that they could draw on, hang out in, eat, have snacks, etc, etc. It’s where creativity is born.

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