Articles for category: Initiative

May 16, 2017

Greg Thomas

The Future of Training is Engagement

Think back to the best training session you ever attended. It could be one you attended, one that was held internally or maybe even one that you gave. What made it so special, what made it resonate with you and your team that when you left you all felt committed to take action and make something happen. What was the secret sauce in play? Now before you book your next training, hold it accountable to that bar, don’t let it waiver, it must hit or leap over that bar that you’ve set. Because you know you, you know your team

May 4, 2017

Greg Thomas

The New Corporate Headquarters

Between the time when I was on my own and now where I am on my own again was about the span of a little over two years. With my first company -I had servers everywhere, network equipment, firewalls, managing patches and software upgrades, performing much of this work myself, begging for help from friends where I needed it and always worrying that someday everything would break (and some days it did, horribly). Fast forward two years to my new company – I run everything from the cloud, the majority of which I can access from my phone.  The company goes where

May 2, 2017

Greg Thomas

The Freelance Network Hustle

Freelancing is a different beast than consulting and contracting when it comes to sales. Whereas in consulting and contracting you might have another company in front of you selling your wares and services, when you’re freelancing, it’s all on you. As a Freelancer, you need to network, you need to hustle, you need to focus your pitch and you need to practice it with anyone that will listen. You also need to get over the fact that you will deliver bad pitches, that your message will be off point in the beginning and that it might take longer than you

April 14, 2017

Greg Thomas

Two Hours of Code – the Sequel

I had the opportunity to go back to a school and talk some more about code. This time the focus was on IoT and Cloud – amazing to see the growth and development of the kids in the classroom. The full experience is on my LinkedIn article here and the full Slideshare presentation is here.

April 12, 2017

Greg Thomas

Everyone Should be A Startup

At least once in their lives. That mumbo jumbo about running a Startup not being for the faint heart is a barrier to entry. I’m not saying go borrow $10,000,000 in foreign investment on an idea you’re not sure can ever hope to repay that. What I am saying – is everyone should try being a startup at least once in their lives. Make a lemonade stand. Come up with an idea to sell bracelets, make them, market them and sell at the end of your driveway for a month. Shovel driveways. Meet with your friends and do lawncare for