Articles for category: Growth

September 25, 2020

Greg Thomas

Who is doing the Most?

There has always been a problem when it comes to high-pressure projects. Who is doing the most? Whether it’s how many hours you are putting in, how green your presence icon is, how green your github check-ins look, how many meetings you have, or who is pumping out the most bugs – the question never goes away. It’s a dumb question because when you think about it – if one person is doing most of the work – what is the point of the rest of the team. Sometimes it happens without you realizing, people keep giving you more and

September 23, 2020

Greg Thomas

Try

You will mess up. It won’t be perfect. You will get it wrong. You’ll probably stumble. They might laugh at you. But maybe… You’ll learn something new. Realize where you went wrong. Figure out where you really want to go. Meet a new friend. But you’ll never know if you don’t try. Forget what could go wrong and please, just try.

September 23, 2020

Greg Thomas

Remote Mentorship

For our final interview of Season 1 of Remotely Prepared, we were fortunate to sit down with Stacy Cassio – Founder & CEO of the Pink Mentor Network. It was a great interview and a perfect note to end the season on as Stacy talks about her experiences in growing her mentorship company on a remote scale. There is a ton of great information in it, so if you haven’t had a chance to listen to it, here it is. Full Episode

September 14, 2020

Greg Thomas

The Growth Point

When we don’t know how to do something, it’s a good idea to ask for help. When we then see how hard or complicated the task is. We get this bubbled need inside of us to ask the person teaching us – “are you able to do this?” There are a ton of excuses we throw out; This is above my paygrade. This will prevent me from finishing my other tasks. It will take me longer than you. And the list will go on and on… never ending… In anything that list will go on and on and never ending…

September 12, 2020

Greg Thomas

Meeting Interruptions

There is nothing worse than having a train of thought in a meeting that you are trying desperately to get through only to have someone interrupt and say any of the following; One second, there is someone at the door. I can’t hear you, can you hear me? I couldn’t hear that last part. Hold on, my eggs are burning Such is the world of online meetings (and that last one is legit, happened in a meeting). We can no longer run remote meetings as we ran them on-site. Are shorter meetings the answer? Perhaps. Are more efficient meetings the