Articles for category: Leadership

June 24, 2023

Greg Thomas

What Meetings do you Need?

Weekly meetings can be divided into two categories – ones where people need to hear from you and ones where you need to get something out of it. Sometimes they are one and the same, sometimes they aren’t. Team Status meetings where ten people give their updates, are meetings where someone needs to hear from you – you can try to automate it with an email or status report, but eventually, they want to hear your voice – that’s life – you’re never going to escape it. Then there are the meetings that you want to get something out of

June 19, 2023

Greg Thomas

Finding Your Style

The hardest thing, whatever it is you do, is trying to find your style. Whether it’s drawing, writing, coding, biking, exercising, building, fixing, leading, coaching, or juggling (the list goes on forever and ever in anything you do). But rooted in everything you do, is your style, it’s no one else’s, it’s yours only. Not everyone will agree with it, they might think it’s weird or off, it might not line up with their style. That’s okay, it’s yours, and it works.

June 7, 2023

Greg Thomas

Outmatched

There are going to be days when you are completely outmatched. The work you’re up against is that much better than what you are creating. The team you are competing against has been to the rodeo before and knows all the tricks. That’s okay, the fact that you’re here, in this moment attempting to level up, that’s what matters and is more important than anything.

June 7, 2023

Greg Thomas

Feedback without Context

Feedback is great, but should never be relied upon without context in place. The context is what was going on surrounding that particular item. It’s the work that was going on at that point in time. It’s the goals that were trying to be achieved but might not have worked. Feedback is incredibly useful, but only if everything surrounding the feedback is understood.

May 30, 2023

Greg Thomas

Are we all on the same page?

If you’re in a room and everyone is staring back at you blankly, you’re not all on the same page. If you’ve just had a call and discussed half a dozen ideas with no confirmation as to who is doing what, you’re not all on the same page. You can tell the teams that are on the same page from afar, they are all working together, each person knowing their part and role that is critical to their success. That’s how a team works. That’s how a team keeps moving forward beyond the basics building on their successes.

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