Articles for category: Initiative

July 11, 2023

Greg Thomas

Summer Learning

Find a book. Start that course from Udemy you purchased six months ago. Learn a new skill. Run a little farther. No one is saying you need to master the subject, no one is saying you need to become an expert or invest 4 hours a day. Catch up on that seminar you might have missed. Most of all, Summer Learning should be about things you want to learn, not stuff that other people want you to learn, that’s why it’s way easier to do, and more enjoyable. And that’s what the summer is for.

July 8, 2023

Greg Thomas

What is your Overload?

We each have our own limit. Where we get to the end and then we go into overload. The key part is to ensure that we don’t go beyond that, that we operate at it or below it. We also know when it’s coming and to take on more, is asking for it to happen. The worst time to worry about Overload, is when you’re already overloaded, it’s too late, you have no bandwidth. The best time, is before it happens, way before it happens, when you are so far away from it that it can’t happen.  That’s the best

July 7, 2023

Greg Thomas

Leadership By Email

Over the last two years, we led by Zoom or Email because we had to, it was the best we had to offer. But today we don’t have to, these are tools that you can use, but they are not a magical multipurpose tool that does it all. Leading my email might get your message across very clearly and concisely, but you’ll always need to follow-up to make sure everyone “gets” what you mean. Don’t let email become the only way you lead.

July 6, 2023

Greg Thomas

Lining up the Pieces

There are 85 steps you need to take to deliver that project. All 85 are important. You can’t skip one and expect to be successful. There is an order to those steps that you know are the path to success that you need to take. In your head, you can see them all coming together and working and crystalizing in front of you. But your team can’t, your stakeholders can’t and your customers definitely don’t know. If you want those 85 steps done to the best of your ability, you are going to have to sit down with your team

June 29, 2023

Greg Thomas

The Value of Prompts

Prompts are little pushes to help you do something. Reminders and Alerts are great prompts – “don’t forget you have an appt”. But there are other prompts, ones that are more valuable that you can give your team. “Hey, do we need time this week to clean up our tickets?” “We should work on those unit tests for all the code we wrote this past week.” “The team’s delivery is slipping… was there a reason you need to get ahead of?” Prompts are the little kicks on work that is important but can sometimes slide – they help us not

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