Articles for category: Leadership

February 6, 2024

Greg Thomas

Remote Leadership

Remote Leadership is a different beast of leadership. You need to reach out, engage, discuss, follow up, call (yes call), and organize sit-downs. You can’t just walk by someone’s desk and see they’re having a bad day, you need to reach out to them, you need to talk to them, you need to find a way to poke without disrupting them. It’s not easy, it takes effort, and it takes a change in the style of what you’re doing. And that’s where we fall down, not adapting our style to what our team needs.

February 2, 2024

Greg Thomas

What Can You Control?

Yourself. Your actions. Your purpose. You can make the best of a bad situation or the worst of a great one. Everything is in your hands in how you approach and how you deal with the situation at hand. That is you can control, that is where you can help people, that is where you can lead.

January 22, 2024

Greg Thomas

Stopping the Meeting

You can stop the meeting whenever you want. No one is holding you back. Many are probably hoping that you do. The ones who end the meeting without the “let me give you back 5 minutes of your day” are the ones who see the direction and value as fleeting and are willing to call it in an effort to do something better tomorrow – maybe change the objective, the roster or the time. But they are going to stop it first.

January 18, 2024

Greg Thomas

What’s Your Meeting Limit?

How many meetings can you handle in a week? 5? 10? 15? 1? 2? If your limit is something like 12?  Why are you taking more?  Why are you accepting more? The failure in our meetings is that no one knows what our actual limit is so we keep scheduling simply because we can. We can keep pouring water into a glass because there is space in it, it doesn’t mean we want to drink all that water.

January 16, 2024

Greg Thomas

What happen to the Ad-hoc Meeting?

You used to be able to talk with someone and realize the conversation is going to go longer and realize there was a need to have an ad-hoc 2-hour meeting to map out everything that was happening. You never came out of that thinking – “that was a waste of time”. The value of ad-hoc meetings is that they are instantiated at the time a problem is discovered – “Hey we need to chat” – “Yes we do”. The duration of the meeting is dictated by the problem and its resolution, not the clock. The power of the Ad-hoc Meeting

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