Articles for category: Leadership

Finding your Hidden Value Proposition

I’ve been doing the odd blog here and there on LinkedIn that I’ll update to my online articles shortly.  Generally I haven’t shared them out via this blog because they are more technical in nature but I wrote one last week that has been rattling in my head for the last 2 months on defining our own value proposition and understanding how that fits into your team and organization as a whole, where the alignment needs to be and what you need to understand to move forward. Coming up with a title was a little tricky but here it is.

December 29, 2016

Greg Thomas

The Internal Out of Office

I had never seen one of these before up until a few weeks ago. Think about if you received an auto-reply from a colleague that read somewhat like this… “I can’t respond to your email right now, I’m working on this great project right now and will try to get back to you later.” What’s the project? How great is it? What do I need to do, to be a part of it? How can I help by keeping emails like mine out of your way? Very simply this conveys interest, excitement, passion and of course, curiosity. I haven’t used

December 27, 2016

Greg Thomas

Being Stuck with Nowhere To Go

Have you ever felt stuck in where you are? Not sure where to go or what to do next? Not confident that you can even take that first step? Are you feeling more confined merely by reading the first few lines in this post? You shouldn’t. Being stuck is the best place to be – it’s in those moments of being stuck that we force ourselves to take a step back and look at where we are, where we want to go and formulate plans on how we are going to get there. When we are zipping here, there and

December 26, 2016

Greg Thomas

Don’t worry about who gets Credit

If you are not there to make the presentation that you have slaved over for months, will people still recognize and appreciate that it was done by you and not the stand in? How much does it matter if they don’t? The people who don’t know you will assume (their mistake) that it is the presenter who has done everything. The people who do you know you, will see your touch, your fingerprints, your passion all over it and they will know without a doubt whose work they are looking at but is being presented by someone else. The question then becomes