Articles for category: Growth

August 11, 2024

Greg Thomas

Your Team’s Growth Plan

While everyone is working on the day-to-day, your focus, as the leader needs to be on their growth. What can they do to get better? What do they need? What are they missing? What do they want to be learning? Where can I help them? These are all the necessary pieces that you need to put together to help them achieve their growth plan so they can keep being the same great team that keeps executing, delivering and accomplishing on a daily basis.

August 8, 2024

Greg Thomas

The Steps to Growth

Start – anything, something, not big, or small, but start. Repeat – do what you did yesterday, but do it again, don’t modify it, don’t increase it, don’t push yourself further. Keep Doing it – the hardest one – everyone can start Start and Repeat for a bit, but the “Keeping Doing it”, is the hardest part – how long can you keep doing it?  What’s the record? Increase – Whatever your “Keep Doing it” period was, now the question is whether you need/want to increase it – you don’t have to. Maintain – Yes maintain, keep doing it, keep

August 7, 2024

Greg Thomas

Where you Find Yourself

Where you currently find yourself, is where you might not want to be. Job. Career. Task. Role. Wherever you find yourself is where you are – you can’t change that. You can change where you are headed, what you want to accomplish, and where you want to go. What that means is where you find yourself today, is not where you are going to end up, unless you stay resolved to remain there.

Careers and Gaming

Careers are exactly like video games. You start off not knowing what to do so you plod along and stuff “happens”. Then you figure out you want to get better at something, perhaps even “specialize”. So you get good at that thing, invest in yourself, get the tools and you become better at what you do. Then like anything, you get to the point where you need to learn the tips and tricks and master the controls to get farther – what works where, when to apply what to what, etc, etc. Maybe you get to the point where you