Articles for category: Initiative

March 28, 2021

Greg Thomas

Finding Your Goals

There are a number of things out there that you can do. But only some you can do well. And only some you can spend the time to learn and grow at. And only very few can you achieve. You’ll be drawn into many areas over your career as people think you are “great” and “built to do this” but if it clashes with your end goals, with where you want to be in the end. All it will do is anger you and leave you frustrated. Take the time, to find what it is, you really want to do.

March 26, 2021

Greg Thomas

Your Strongest Supporter

Will always be your customer. If you’re not approaching each project with them as a partnership, then you will only ever get half of the value from it could potentially be. Don’t hide from them. Don’t keep them out of the loop. Don’t gang up on them to have a vote. Bring them onto the team. Invite them to the discussions. Move the project forward faster with them, then without them. They’re waiting.

March 24, 2021

Greg Thomas

Leveling Up

How do you get better if the people ahead of you don’t want to share their tips and tricks or even compete against you? How do you know where you stand if you never have a yardstick to measure yourself against? If all you have are your own accomplishments? You have yourself, you have your accomplishments and you have what’s next on your growth path. You don’t need to try racing against a Formula F1 Driver to see how you’d compare in your car (probably not that well) but you could just as easily draw the line of comparison between

March 22, 2021

Greg Thomas

Let Them Speak

When discussing an issue with a team member, you already know there is an issue – that’s why you setup the meeting. But when you get the meeting, your role isn’t to talk, your role is to ask a question and wait. Wait as long as it takes, but wait. The silence will be deafening, good, that’s the point. If you keep filling the air with words, you are never going to let them speak. Even if what they are saying is wrong, take notes, let them go on and wait until the end. You need to hear from them,

March 19, 2021

Greg Thomas

Breaking the Flow

Flow state is good, being in the zone is great. When you’re in it, it takes you down a path, and as long as you are in it, you keep moving down that path, you keep pushing, you keep delivering. Until, you find yourself down a rabbit hole, until you realize you’ve been flowing too long. So then you come back to the rest of the world with your plan, with all your work and you present it to everyone, and it’s at that point you realize something – you were gone too long, you didn’t check in, you missed

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