Articles for category: Initiative

November 20, 2020

Greg Thomas

The Lessons You Will Learn

This year, they are not the lessons you set out in your resolutions. They are not the ones you stayed up late at night, excited to accomplish. They are not the ones that will necessarily help in your career path. Indirectly most likely, but not directly. The lessons you learn, will push you harder than you thought possible. They will make you rethink your decisions. They will give you pause. And just when you think you have figured it all out, they will force you to figure it out all again. There are lessons to be learned this year of

November 16, 2020

Greg Thomas

Old Remote Tool Excitement

Yes, we all have remote fatigue. But remember the excitement you had the first time you started up ICQ with this incredibly simple username that was easy to remember that you then used to login and connect with people not only in your office but remotely? I remember the first time I could chat at my desk with my wife at work using GTalk. Maybe what you don’t need is the latest, fanciest and greatest tool for your team so they can have high-def video. Maybe what you need to do is recapture the excitement and fun of being remote.

November 14, 2020

Greg Thomas

Yes, But what do you want?

This is the question that many of us can’t answer. What do we actually want? We look at user stories and features, what is in the backlog, what was discussed in a meeting and we assume that is “what the user wants”. But it really isn’t. How many times have you built something, thinking it was the right thing to build only to have an end user go – “that’s not what I was looking for.” It’s not until that you ask someone – “What do you want?” – that you get the answer you need, unencumbered by technology, domain

November 10, 2020

Greg Thomas

Building Habits

They start small and when they hit their peak, they build momentum until they become unstoppable. Since April, I’ve been working on a few. They aren’t peaking at this point, but like everything, I track my effort and they are growing at a rate which shows progress. Every few months I push it a little more, only because I want to see what I can do but mainly so I can stabilize a habit at that level before moving onto the next one. There are times I miss my target, that’s why I don’t raise the target each month, what’s

November 5, 2020

Greg Thomas

Outcome-Based Conversations

You might be talking a lot these days. Your calendar might be completely blue. And you might be having great discussions. But two weeks later you might also be wondering why nothing is changing and why what you thought were the actions never happened. It could be because you are not structuring your conversations around outcomes you want to see. Outcomes are bigger then agenda items, they are what you need to see happen next, what the next step is, what you want to come from these discussions. The are the next piece. If you aren’t having conversations that look

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