Articles for category: Growth

September 3, 2021

Greg Thomas

Trust Your Team

Your team will have new ideas. They will tweak processes. They will come up with new designs, patterns, and practices. They will have a thought and want to run with it. And through it all, they will look to you to trust them. They will start with you, their manager, looking for that trust. And if they can get that trust from you, whatever they will implement will be that much better than if they hadn’t had your trust, to begin with. Give them the trust they need to grow and you’ll be blown away by what they come up

August 29, 2021

Greg Thomas

The First 10 Minutes of Every Meeting

It’s yours. If you called the meeting, all eyes are on you. And they are waiting. For what you are going to say and what you are going to do. The first ten minutes are yours to set the direction and set the tone. If you are discussing numbers and dates, come with numbers and dates – don’t spend the first ten minutes searching for them. If you are discussing problems, come with the problem known (better yet send it out in advance). If you are discussing slippage in releases, come with reasons why it’s late. The first ten minutes

August 28, 2021

Greg Thomas

The Leadership Baseline

It’s a line, it’s a minimum, it’s the baseline for what you need to be successful. It’s where you are starting. It’s who you are as a leader and where you need to go. It is the starting point of the path you are going to take. It’s the basic level you are at. And it’s from here you will grow to become a better leader. But first, you have to know where you are starting from.

August 25, 2021

Greg Thomas

Remote Equity

It’s sad but inevitable, the shift in remote work has now turned to pay cuts to subsidize unused buildings. Or maybe for some other cost-cutting initiative. We get pretty riled up on this episode of Remotely Prepared – “Remote Pay Cuts”

August 24, 2021

Greg Thomas

When the Requirements Don’t Fit

One day you are going to pick a product or tool to do a job that just doesn’t fit. Maybe it doesn’t work, maybe it doesn’t line up, maybe it simply doesn’t do what it was supposed to do. The only question in your mind is – “Now what am I supposed to do?” At this stage you have two options; Do a ton of work around this tool or product (I’m looking at you Mr. using my drill as a hammer because I don’t have hammer person) to make it work. Get a new tool (oh hello Hammer) Neither

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