Articles for category: Leadership

March 1, 2019

Greg Thomas

Manufactured Entitlement

This is a thing. Where people expect that based on their position they are deserving of special treatment and respect. Where others buy into this sense of entitlement and treat them this way because they have a title, position or qualification. And it is driven by the person that has the title, position or qualification. “Hey I’m the Lead, you should listen to me” “It’s my way or the highway” “Everyone follow me, I’m the Leader” “You guys are lucky to have me running the show” Except they aren’t, because you never gave them the chance to trust you the

February 26, 2019

Greg Thomas

Meeting Action Items

How many times have you attended a meeting, been given a list of Action Items and then 30 minutes before the meeting scrambled to get them done? On the flip side, how many times have you handed out Action Items from a meeting only to see them being done 30 minutes before the meeting? In both cases, knowing that they are not 30 minute items to complete. The problem with Action Items is we treat them as actions to be done on top of our normal work so they get pushed to the bottom. The Meeting Minutes come out, we

February 21, 2019

Greg Thomas

Starting Your Day with a Mess

No one goes into work excited to clean up a mess left there the day before (or by the night shift). We want a fresh start, new beginnings, new opportunities to be successful. So don’t let someone else’s day start that way. Clean up your mess. Leave things better than you found them. Put in the extra 15 minutes to make someone’s entire day better. It’ll be worth it.

February 20, 2019

Greg Thomas

Running out of Ideas

Go find the busiest coffee shop you can, buy the biggest drink you can handle and listen. Listen to what people are talking about, listen to what is ailing them, listen to what they are working on. Note: Don’t steal their ideas or do anything illegal or stalkerish. If that’s too “out there” for you, go sign up for a new course or program you have never done before. Glassblowing Archery Drawing Skeetball Needlepoint Cooking Whatever that takes you out of your element and forces you to learn a new set of skills that puts you back at ground zero.

February 15, 2019

Greg Thomas

Buckle Up

Two words that can change the direction of your meeting in a heartbeat. Heads Up. Look out. And plenty more that you can come up that speaks more to what is going to happen than what has happened. They are the words that your team hears and perk up at knowing what comes next is going to be action, direction and implementation for whatever they are working on. Whatever they are to you, find them, use them and make them yours.

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