Articles for category: Initiative

May 9, 2021

Greg Thomas

Trimming the Backlog

We get into a meeting, great ideas come out of it and if we are busy, we throw them onto the backlog. This isn’t bad, this is how it should work – you can’t do everything, all the time. Also, it’s a great way to give things time to congeal in people’s heads, let them see what you are building now so they can decide if they reall need this later. Do we truly need AI? Scraping an email will do. But, but… there is always this small part of me that is sad when we trim the backlog and

May 8, 2021

Greg Thomas

What Matters

What matters more to you this year has changed from last year. We have been through so much, together, apart, it all seems to get lost in a swirling drum of everything. What I have found, what I have realized is that what matters to be today, at this moment is greater than what mattered to be me last year. It’s harder, but it’s worth it.

May 7, 2021

Greg Thomas

Your Job Description

Is not what you were meant to do, it’s a guide, a prescription for what you need to achieve. If you accomplish your roles in a different manner and still maintain success you are doing things right. If you are redefining your job description to meet the needs of your team and company you are doing things right. If you are being challenged, growing and learning you are doing things right. Job descriptions are an idea of what is needed at that moment in time for what we think someone will do when they get into that position. They are

May 2, 2021

Greg Thomas

Team Events in a Remote World

I wanted to find a way to have a team event that wasn’t going to be repetitive from what we had had recently. We’d done the Take Out Tuesday and the odd drinks but those were just a few people chatting. This needed to be for 30+ people who I wanted to have a good laugh and also very much pat them on the back for the great work that they had been doing. What I came up with was a game of – “How well do you know your team?” – with the wink being towards how long we

April 30, 2021

Greg Thomas

Wired Up

When in doubt, wire it up. I rarely use a bluetooth headset for an important call. For the price, the reliability isn’t always there. Sure it looks great walking around your kitchen with your headset on, making lunch while on a call, but what are you focusing more on at that moment in time? Your lunch or the meeting? You don’t need the fanciest mic and headphones, you need one that is consistent, reliable, durable and will be there when you need it. Boil it down to what you need and not what you are going to have to switch

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