Articles for category: Initiative

November 6, 2019

Greg Thomas

The Show of Force Meeting

The Show of Force Meeting is an exercise in seeing who can get the most people to the table where only two people talk. It’s either a showing of how many people believe in my idea or an opportunity to show how many “influencers” you can get to the table. In either case, it’s a waste of everyone’s time. If you’re having to gather forces for a meeting, the goal of what the meeting was initially about is already lost because whatever it was for has now turned into something else altogether.

October 30, 2019

Greg Thomas

You Didn’t Use the Template

That’s an after the presentation discussion. When developing a deck on a new set of content, a new set of ideas, a new approach or initiative, the last thing that truly matters is what template you use. What matters is the content. What matters is the idea. What matters is the next step. What matters is what comes from the presentation. If people are more concerned about your formatting and template, then the content you are building is not for them because they are not looking at the ideas, not looking at what you are trying to achieve and definitely

October 28, 2019

Greg Thomas

Going Backwards

In sports, passing back is one of the hardest skills to learn as you grow older. For years you’ve taught to push through, go forward, don’t stop, look up, look at the goal, etc, etc (enter all the sports here). But to get to the next level, you need to learn to pass backward. You need to use your team. If you look ahead and they are all busy, the person behind you is the one who needs the pass, not in front. The goal is that will alleviate the pressure so that this person can then pass up and

October 18, 2019

Greg Thomas

Put up your Hand

Nothing Wrong with Asking for Help In fact, its the one thing we are the most absolute worst at. We have all these preconceived notions of what might happen if we ask for help, what we might look like, what might go wrong that we forget the whole reason we are debating asking for help in the first place. Because we need it.