Articles for category: Leadership

December 12, 2018

Greg Thomas

Don’t Hold Back

The only person you hurt when you hold back on giving your best effort is you. If the team is not up to your level, you bring them up, otherwise you are letting them down. If your intensity and commitment is different than everyone else’s, you share that with the team so they know where you are coming from. If you see problems that they don’t, bring them up to speed, don’t wait for them to figure them out. But don’t Hold Back. Don’t hold back on your own Drive and Delivery just because someone else is.Let loose

December 11, 2018

Greg Thomas

Understanding Requirements

Of all my SlideShares, this one remains my favourite – “How to Write Great Requirements”. In the almost four years since I wrote it, we still haven’t got it right. It’s not perfect, but it’s a start.

December 10, 2018

Greg Thomas

Asking for Validation or Asking for Feedback

We sometimes ask for Feedback, expecting validation in return. “This is perfect” “Great plan” “I like this approach” “No comments” And when we receive feedback we are disgruntled at what we get back. “It’s good but have you tried this?” “What if we incorporated this as well?” “I have some other ideas if you want to hear them?” This is feedback, these are comments that are designed to provide you with mechanism you need to improve on what you are doing and get better.  The former, are platitudes, validation and praise for what you are doing – whether warranted or

December 4, 2018

Greg Thomas

New Leader, New Leader, New Leader !!!!!

The promise of someone to come in, take the reigns and save the day is always met with one of two responses. Great – here are all our problems, they’re all yours now. Whatever. Most believe the second to be the incorrect response when really it is a sign as to the team having a good understanding of the problem and realizing that throwing people at it will not solve it. The first sets this new person up to fail against all odds trying to fix every problem that has ever happened only because they have the title of Leader

November 29, 2018

Greg Thomas

Say It

Despite the feedback you might get, it will always be better to have said something than to have said nothing at all and always wondered what could have been had you spoken up. Say It and encourage others to Say It too.

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