Articles for category: Initiative

March 7, 2022

Greg Thomas

Gearing Up

We don’t wake up and are just ready to go and do something.  For an individual, it can be hard enough to get yourself going but for a team, it becomes multiplied by each individual’s personality, abilities, skills, and experience. Getting your team ready, pumped, on the same page (insert whatever other team you want to use here), I like “gearing up” is a task that you can’t do 5 minutes before the meeting. You need to think of; What do you want them to get out of it? What do you need to get out of it? What do

March 6, 2022

Greg Thomas

Taking that Step Back

The Urgent Crisis of the Moment has shown up in your inbox in the form of a bug that is going to destroy the company if we don’t get it fixed today. At the moment, there is a surge in pressure to resolve the issue now because it is “hurting” things – maybe not you, but someone else who is dependent upon it. In these moments, there are two things to be done; Alleviating the hurt now. Make sure what you did doesn’t hinder things going forward. Alleviating the hurt now is a pretty straightforward proposition – triage the issue

March 5, 2022

Greg Thomas

Are you Ready?

Probably not. No one is ever ready for what is coming their way, if they were, they would be doing it. The usual response to this question is usually – “I guess” or “Okay” or “I think”. Unless you’ve done this task 17 times before, no one can ever say for sure that they are ready with 100% confidence. But that’s not the question we’re asking whether you’re ready to complete the task, what we’re asking is; Are you ready to take the lead and figure out how this works? Are you ready to learn something new? Are you ready

March 3, 2022

Greg Thomas

Training On Your Own

Training is easy when someone schedules it for us. It’s even easier when someone shows us what to do as a group. It’s beyond simple when we have someone standing side-by-side with us to correct everything we do along the way. But it’s much, much, much harder to do when we’re on our own when there is no schedule and no progress bar – it’s just you and whatever it is you are doing, working to get better. And it’s where we do our best work, value that effort the most and remember those lessons we learned when we did

February 27, 2022

Greg Thomas

The Grunt Work

Grunt work never has and never will go away. It will always be there, no matter your role, it will exist, in different forms to be sure. Embrace it, learn from it, figure out how to automate it, and do something with it. From grunt work comes our great ideas for what we might work on next.

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