Articles for category: Leadership

Remote Team Fatigue

You would have to be a robot (or a chatbot) to not realize that your team is most likely starting to feel the effects of Remote Work Fatigue. Either they have or they are on their way to feeling it. These are one of those moments in your role as being a leader that you will forever remember how you responded and helped your team work through this milieu. For many it is starting to set in that they probably won’t be back in the office for a few more months, maybe more. In which case, they have more of

July 10, 2020

Greg Thomas

Remotely Prepared with Liam Martin

I forget to post the updates to Remotely Prepared under some guise that I have missed the “window of opportunity.” Last week we released our latest episode, an interview with Liam Martin. I love interviews that go in a completely different direction then what we originally intended. I’m not sure if this makes me a good interviewer (or a bad one) but it’s that inflection point where I can see the value of the conversation to people. Liam has a wealth of experience in the remote conference arena and near the end he provides some great insight into setting up

Leadership Init();

For whatever reason, whenever I write code, I use the constructor to do some stuff to get the main object loaded – some basic stuff – setup some variables and collections but when it comes to getting things going… woo boy… that’s when we call Init(). Init is what gets things going, it’s what makes code sing, it’s what starts the day at the races and gets your app up and running. When I call Initialize (or Init as seen quite often), it’s doing the heavy lifting to figure setup things and get the job done. I like using Init

Deliver for a Company or Deliver for yourself

When delivering work for a company, you are a part of the cog, you are a piece of the delivery, you are a component of what someone is up at the front of the room with powerpoint in hand where they might call you out expand on a topic. When you are delivering for yourself, you are the engine, you are living the topic and you are calling yourself out each and every day. Want more? Check out my book Code Your Way Up – available as an eBook or Paperback on Amazon (CAN and US).

Lack of Leadership

A void in leadership can demotivate a team from 100 to 0 in seconds. Where everyone is looking for an answer, a path, a direction, anything that they can follow as a guide, hearing nothing in return leaves you feeling stuck, lost and confused. So what do you do? Step 1, figure out what you can do. Step 2, do it. Step 3, bring people in to so they can become a part of what you are doing. Step 4, don’t stop. Leadership appears in all sorts of places, even in ourselves, when we least expect it. Want more? Check