Articles for category: Leadership

July 13, 2023

Greg Thomas

Assembling the Team

The first task in any new project you lead is assembling the team. You need a group that will deliver, try new ideas, keep the focus on what is important, grind it out when the chips are down, work at a steady pace from beginning to end, learn new skills, and discard old ones. And above all else, you need leaders, for whatever you are doing, you won’t be able to make all the decisions all the time and you need to make sure your team is able to empower themselves and each other to make those decisions. And wherever

July 10, 2023

Greg Thomas

Communicating Value

There are lots of articles and blogs out there that start with… “How to get out of…” “Why you shouldn’t attend…” “How to avoid…” “Skip this if you can…” The content is generally the same and focuses on how you shouldn’t attend specific meetings. What it comes down to in any of these cases, all the time is and always will be valued. Do you bring value to the meeting?  Talk with who set it up, maybe you are missing something? Are you not sure what the point of the meeting is?  Talk with the organizer, maybe they have a

July 7, 2023

Greg Thomas

Leadership By Email

Over the last two years, we led by Zoom or Email because we had to, it was the best we had to offer. But today we don’t have to, these are tools that you can use, but they are not a magical multipurpose tool that does it all. Leading my email might get your message across very clearly and concisely, but you’ll always need to follow-up to make sure everyone “gets” what you mean. Don’t let email become the only way you lead.

July 4, 2023

Greg Thomas

Process of One

You don’t build a process for one person. You figure out why that person isn’t following the process in place for everyone. Processes, whether how informal or small or based on culture idioms, are what helps your team service and function.  You might not call them a process, someone else might but if you’re building a separate flow, rule, guideline, or process for One, you’re choosing to give them an exception to what the rest of the team is doing. And that is worst than worrying about whether something is a process or not.

July 3, 2023

Greg Thomas

Building a new Team

When building a new team, the most important factors to look for; What do you need? When do you need it by? Can they help you get to what you need? Do they have time to be on the team? Everyone wants to be on the team, but whether they can help with what you need and whether they have the time to be on the team? These are the critical factors that will define your success, you aren’t there to shoulder the load of the team, you’re there to build the team to implement it.

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