Articles for category: Initiative

July 21, 2017

Greg Thomas

Writers Block

You put off writing, anything, something because you don’t have any ideas. So you sit and you wait for the perfect idea to come to you. The idea that will generate 10000+ likes in its first hour alone. But still, it doesn’t come and you wait some more. But really what you need to be doing is sitting down and putting pen to paper, finger to the keyboard because only then will you start writing, start creating and only then will the ideas come to you in a landslide that your biggest problem will be finding time to write them

July 20, 2017

Greg Thomas

Don’t be Driven By One Action

It can be a very difficult proposition to not feel broken and lost after a meeting has gone off the track, derailed by a single person. Or a project that you put your all into delivering, despite all the setbacks and unknowns only for a single person to comment how it’s still late. Or to pick yourself up, exhausted from everything you gave, only to have that single person ask when you are going to start trying. But it’s amazing how the single action of a person, who probably doesn’t even realize what they are saying when they say it

July 17, 2017

Greg Thomas

Be the Playmaker

They setup the goals, they make the passes to the right person so the effort is minimal and fluid to pick up and do something. They look ahead of the play, not to where their team is going, but to where they need to be. They make the decisions that set their team up for success instead of pushing them to the brink. Anyone can score a goal.  I heard it from a twelve year old who after scoring a soccer goal said – “I didn’t really have to do anything, it could have been anyone, the ball came right to

July 14, 2017

Greg Thomas

The Authentic Sales Funnel

Sales Funnels – at any stage – are an idea of how much work you have in the pipe to keep you going.  You want to keep the initial entry into your funnel large as potential sales (leads) fall off. Eventually – you hit a percentage of conversions from leads to customers. But is your sales funnel authentic? Is every lead focused around your niche? Is every lead a customer you want to work with, you want to go after, you want to have repeat business with? Is every lead the actual value of the engagement or some engrossed version