Articles for category: Leadership

December 18, 2017

Greg Thomas

The Delta Manager

The Delta Manager is the manager who realizes they don’t know it all, they are in over their head, they are swamped with projects and timelines and deliverables and don’t know what path forward they can take. They are on the verge of paralysis with anyone and everyone lining up at their desk to ask them questions and lay their demands at their feet. They are overwhelmed and exhausted. So here’s where they apply the Delta. They take one thing, one small thing, and they get it done. Then they focus on the next thing. Then the next. They manage

December 14, 2017

Greg Thomas

Trust Doesn’t start at 100

It starts at zero. You didn’t come into this world trusting your parents 100%, you didn’t even know them. So you cried every chance you got. Over time you came to recognize their voice and touch and gave in to trusting them a little more each day. Your team is the exact same (save maybe the crying). You need to earn their trust so it goes above 100, not start at 100, letting it erode over time. Hint: Whether it’s growing from 0 – 100 or eroding from 100 – 0, the steps aren’t large, heavy actions, they are the

December 11, 2017

Greg Thomas

Messing with your Sense of Completed?

Have you ever had this happen? You have your own internal sense of what being “Complete” is. What you need to check the box and say “I’m here, I did it.” But then someone comes along and sees what you are doing and they scoff… they scoff so loud that it shakes everything about what you thought was right and now are a complete jumble of up, down and all around. What was your perfect Sense of Complete has now been thrown to the wolves? When this happens you only have one option – redefine your sense of completed and keep

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

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