Articles for category: Growth

November 29, 2021

Greg Thomas

Trying something New

The first time you did something, you messed it up.  Probably the second, third, and fourth times. Then you figured it out and successively improved each and every time.  This was easy when we were young because we didn’t care what people thought – we just did it. Does anyone care how many times you fell down when learning to walk? But now everyone watches, records and reviews and now we do for ourselves as well.  It can help but also hinder. When it starts to remember, always remember your approach from when you were a kid and the process you

November 27, 2021

Greg Thomas

Branching Out

I get this hunger that starts gnawing at me now and again to go and try something completely different. Go learn a new platform. Go figure out a new way to exercise. Try out a new planning tool. Pivot your approach to clients. Try a different writing style. It doesn’t always work out perfectly or go smoothly, but I always come out that much better for having put the time into learning something new and trying something different.  I might not stick with it till the end, but it gives me a new perspective and I think, in the end,

November 25, 2021

Greg Thomas

Avoiding THE Plan

There is no point in having a plan if you’re not going to follow it. But there is also no point in avoiding making a plan, simply because you didn’t follow it in the past. Not having a plan is okay for you – “I’ll wing it and figure it out when I get there” – but definitely not good for your team and you as a leader. If it’s your first time planning, getting started is easy – ask your team what they need to see and start working through that list, inevitably you will add other pieces that

November 19, 2021

Greg Thomas

Applied Training

How often do you take a training course, never to use it again? Or go to a conference, drink from the firehose, and leave it all in the city that you visited for that one great week? The purpose of training is to take what you have learned, apply it and reap the benefits from it. Learning is great, but implementing what you have learned, applying it?  That’s growth.

November 15, 2021

Greg Thomas

But will it Survive the Upgrade?

I like the idea of auto-updates, when enabled, nothing gets left behind. The days of – “oh wait, you haven’t updated your server for the last five months” – are no longer conversations we need to have. I remember doing those “patch” nights where we would sit there and talk while someone patched the next server, then the next one, then waited for the next round of updates to come down, so we could do the next one, then the next one, and on and on. Auto-Updates are great, as long as they always work and self-correct when there are

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