Articles for category: Initiative

February 18, 2022

Greg Thomas

Team-Ups

When was the last time you worked with someone on your team that you’ve been dying to work with for a while on a special project? It doesn’t even have to be a special project, just some project. There are people that I have worked with where I never got this opportunity, I kept pushing it off, thinking it would happen way later in our careers but something came up -I left, they left, moved to separate teams, pick your reason. Don’t wait for the next great team-up to happen, go make it happen.  

February 14, 2022

Greg Thomas

Going from Zero to One Hundred

Whether you are restarting with an old team or starting with a new team – the last week of “things opening up” was probably stressful for you and your team. Not only that, how many times have we been through this before?  (I don’t want to count, but I know the number is lurking in the back of my head). You have a ton of things to catch up on, you have to motivate your team to get back into the swing of things on top of everything else they are struggling with. Know, that even though you need to

February 12, 2022

Greg Thomas

Well then, you do it

This is the general response when something isn’t going well, we blurt it out in a moment of frustration as we throw our hands up in the air. There is another response though, one that doesn’t get used often enough. Here, let me show you. We don’t say offer that enough, because it takes more time and energy.

February 10, 2022

Greg Thomas

Falling Over

I fall down… a lot. No matter how much experience you have, how many GURU, EXPERT, ROCKSTAR titles you have, you will fall over. You won’t stick the landing every time. And who wants to do that.  I eschew the day where I stick the landing perfectly without even trying. Because than I’m no longer falling over, I’m just standing there, afraid to fall over.

February 8, 2022

Greg Thomas

Learn it Now, Yesterday, Last Week

The truth is you might need to learn something now, and perhaps you needed to learn it yesterday or last week but you didn’t. Maybe it’s a course in your Udemy catalog or a webinar you wanted to attend, signed up for, but never attended. That’s okay because you have Now and Now is better than Never.

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