Articles for category: Growth

October 14, 2020

Greg Thomas

Interview with Marco Pasqua

My favourite interviews on Remotely Prepared are the ones where I feel revitalized, ideas flowing through my veins that I just need to get out. I take the headphones off and say to myself – “that was incredible”. One of our recent interviews with Marco Pasqua left me feeling this way, I was blown away by his insight into making connections with people especially in age when we are all remote and have to be doing this for the first time. If you haven’t had a listen yet, here it is, you won’t be disappointed. https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/genuine-connections-with-marco-pasqua-interview/id1514693059?i=1000493291396

October 11, 2020

Greg Thomas

The New Remote Power Moves

Letting someone sit in the lobby. Muting them when they are talking. Grabbing the Screen share session. Forcing people on video because everyone else is. Daily Status updates to channels so people know they are working. Making sure that presence icon is always green. These are the new management power moves that are running the remote world. It’s a petty list that does nothing to help your team work better and more effectively. I don’t need to go through each one to say what the adverse affects are – you can do that for yourself. Remote work, remote leadership, remote

October 8, 2020

Greg Thomas

Hiring Remotely

On a good day, hiring people for your team is a challenge. A quick look at some articles I’ve written on interviewing further confirms how tricky this can be. Running a Technical Interview One Rule for Interviews How Not to Prep for an Interview – Part 2 Now Not to Prep for an Interview – Part I Stop the Memory Questions Getting Past the Gatekeeper Hire Someone Better Senior Years but Junior Experience Selling Yourself References Used to Mean Something And that is just what I’ve written about on this site alone and not in my book – Code Your

October 3, 2020

Greg Thomas

Authentic Leadership

If you want to be having those hard conversations with your team – switching roles, letting people go, moving on to different careers, etc, etc – and you want to generate a response that the team can work with and move the ball forward, you won’t be able to do it without having generated a certain level of trust and authenticity before that first discussion. Otherwise you’ll end up with a lot of people on video, nodding their heads simply to get to the end of the call. You can have authentic, deep discussions that don’t happen on video. We’ve

September 27, 2020

Greg Thomas

Had a Meeting No one Talked

Could this have been an email? Should this have been an email? No we should have been discussing these topics Were too many people in the room? There were a lot of people in the room, but only a quarter of them need to be there, the rest would not have said anything regardless. Were people missing? Yes. What’s the difference between the people that were missing and the ones that were there? The people that were missing are the ones that care. They care about every detail about what you are doing. They care about what happened, what went

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