Articles for category: Leadership

December 8, 2017

Greg Thomas

Pointing Your Team Forward

If you are responsible for another person or person(s) on a particular task – you are a Leader (congratulations). There does not need to be a distinction between coordinator, manager, leader, chief of this or president of that. You are a Leader. So take a second, think about what direction you want this group of people to go in and take them there. Not sure what the first step is to make that happen? It’s you, moving forward and showing everyone where to go. Project timelines out of whack? Have a meeting to discuss what the team needs to do

December 7, 2017

Greg Thomas

A word about the word Employee

Not sure why, but it drives me nuts. Maybe it harkens back to the factory floor where someone is required to come in day after day to accomplish a certain task. They do that task and that’s all they do. We live in a multitude of economies now – connected, community, shared, creative – (the list goes on and on). We have different types of sales, marketing and development to round things out. But we have yet to evolve the term that defines so many of us and what we do. Is there another term that can be used to

November 29, 2017

Greg Thomas

The Best Time to Change the Delivery Date

When you’ve been unclear on when the delivery date is? When everyone is working day and night to finish the task but is so far off? When you haven’t been asking for updates and assume it’s going to be done when you were hoping it would be done? When there are two weeks left and QA has not started? The answer: None of these times, it should have been done months ago, when you were asking these questions, getting clarity, making sure people weren’t burning out, asking for where problems are and ensuring each group has time to complete their

November 28, 2017

Greg Thomas

When to Give Feedback

Not before – nothing has happened. Not during – it’s happening and they are in a groove. Not a few weeks after – it’s too late, the moment is gone, you’ve all moved on. It’s in the sweet spot that can’t be quantified between completing the event and giving a short amount of time for emotions, intelligence, stress, frustration, everything to dissipate. Where both parties are ready to listen to what is being given and discuss what should happen next time. It’s different for everyone, in every situation. That’s the hard part about being a leader, one size doesn’t fit

November 23, 2017

Greg Thomas

Run Your Team Like a Company

Like a company that has to meet their sales targets. That has to show what they bring to the company – day in and day out. Estimate every other team’s value and compare to yours. Are you at the bottom? Are you at the top? How do you keep that position? You sell more, you keep costs down, you show your value. You show your value without ever having to go to a meeting and hear – “Who is your bottom 10% that we can let go” Because they already know, there is no bottom 10%, there is only a

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