Articles for category: Leadership

April 16, 2020

Greg Thomas

Leading in the Dark

Right now, many leaders are learning what it feels like to lead in the dark. When their team isn’t connected to their elbow, when they can’t see what they are doing, when they can’t stop by their desk for a quick 5 minute chat. If can be a bit panicky because here you are expected to lead them and you can’t even find them. It’s okay thought because you’ve been here before, when you first started leading the team, when you didn’t know anyone, when you didn’t know the team, when you had to learn everyone’s name and figure out

April 15, 2020

Greg Thomas

The Usual Suspects

We all know who they are. The usual group that when they get together, the same results happen, or rather don’t happen. Nothing changes, progress creeps to a halt and the everyone wonders aloud what went wrong. For change to happen, you some times need to break up the suspects and put them in their own corners, let them go or walk away. Whichever you choose, know that it isn’t your fault

April 8, 2020

Greg Thomas

Software will change Culture

More than at any time before in the history of your team, the software you use, the software you are using will change your team culture. How and what you deliver will inevitably be impacted by the software you use and how you introduce it to your organization. Conferencing and communications are the first step but what comes next? Will people always be calling each other because they can’t wait for chats to come through? Will email go away because we are now relying on group chats and other mediums? Will you need to have these applications installed on your

April 7, 2020

Greg Thomas

Establishing Remote Connections

Where you thought you had a connection with someone before, that connection might now be gone. In working with your peers, not everyone is going to want to work on video, not everyone is going to have perfect internet and not everyone will be flourishing working from their dining room table. You are going to need to establish new connections, new ideas and new patterns if you are going to get through us. No one said delivering this way would be easy, but no said it wouldn’t be possible. Those that find change hard will struggle the most, that’s where

March 30, 2020

Greg Thomas

Take a Break

I have played more video games in the past week than I probably have in the past year, easily. I have walked my dog more in the last few weeks than I did in the last month. I have watched more local news about my community, about those around me than I ever have (perhaps since I was a child). You don’t need to be doing something productive 24/7 to “get ahead”, you can do something that wastes an insurmountable amount of time if it gives you the break you need to get back in the game. That’s what breaks

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