Articles for category: Leadership

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

November 21, 2017

Greg Thomas

Finding Your Team’s Vision

Every team needs a goal. Small-town sports team, elite competitive mathletes, developer tiger team. If you don’t have a vision, direction or purpose for where your team is headed – how will you know when you get there? How will you know when you have achieved it? How will you know it’s time to tweak, adjust and grow that vision? If you never have anything to measure against it? And what about everyone on your team? How will you get them on board to what you want to accomplish when they have no concept as to what your vision is?

November 16, 2017

Greg Thomas

The Clueless Leader

Isn’t the most demotivating feeling in the world when your leader has no idea what you are doing, how you are doing it, why you are doing it and as a result why it’s taking longer than expected. After all, aren’t they the ones that identified the work to be done and triaged it to you? Aren’t they the ones responsible for the end deliverable? Shouldn’t they have a little more knowledge in what they are responsible for so they can talk about it with confidence and passion to others and understand how and why you might be taking longer

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