Articles for category: Leadership

November 26, 2022

Greg Thomas

If it was Easy, everyone would be doing It

It’s easy to do the things that don’t challenge you, don’t push you, don’t force you to rethink what you are doing, and give you that boost of what you are good at. It’s much harder to realize you’re not good at everything, that one thing you are struggling with, you are struggling with for a reason because it’s not easy. That “thing” you working on, you might be the only one working on it and everyone might be staring at you wondering why you are working on it, because it’s tricky, because it’s tough but in the end you

November 17, 2022

Greg Thomas

But Someone Doesn’t Agree

This is always going to happen, someone will not always agree with what you are saying, what you are proposing, what you know to be the right path based on experience and implementation, or maybe just all the work you’ve put into it. You could be the greatest expert in the room and they still won’t listen to you (Even when they say teach us). You might have the whole room on board except for one person that doesn’t get it or doesn’t have it jive with their worldview of how things are supposed to go and they refuse to

November 11, 2022

Greg Thomas

Listening Between the Words

You might have heard this phrased another way – “Reading between the Lines” – but what we’re asking you to do is listen for what is happening between the words. Are you not getting what is being asked of you? Are you asking for confirmation that you understood their issue? Are you arguing for what you want vs what they need? Listening between the words is figuring out the context, where the information is coming from, what it’s about, what matters, etc, etc – and those aren’t always read out to you word for word.

November 8, 2022

Greg Thomas

Managing the Tasks of Others

In Managing Tasks, it was all about your work but what about when you are having to manage other people’s work? What do you do when you are responsible for someone else’s work but you’re not the one that is doing it?  What do you then? We all lay out our work differently but when I’m responsible for what someone else is delivering the requirements are still the same; Do I understand what you have written?  Or do I have to come to you for clarification on every single task? Are there pieces left in your head and not written down

November 3, 2022

Greg Thomas

Seeing the Potential

No one gets it right the first time, but within them is the ability to get there. The question then is not whether this person will get there. The question is whether you are willing to invest everything you can in them, the individual, your team, to see them get there. Will you grow the potential or leave it to someone else?

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