Articles for category: Leadership

October 15, 2021

Greg Thomas

Running a Planning Session

Remember having day-long planning sessions where everyone got together to figure out a problem or map out your plans for the next quarter or year? If you haven’t had to do this yet (don’t worry it’s coming) but if you have one on the horizon and aren’t sure where to start, here are a few pointers. Pre-Preparation – yes pre-preparation, before the session begins, identify what you need people to do before they get there, what information do you need to have in hand so you can anticipate people’s questions and directions. Start with the people – only invite people

October 12, 2021

Greg Thomas

Are you Right for it?

There are jobs we have that we are not right for. We have all had roles that we were completely mismatched for – you might have thought it was the thing you’d been dying for, but in reality, you were catfished and now you’re doing something completely different. Even still you might have a job you were hired for with a title you aspire to be, but what you are doing is nowhere near what you actually signed up to do. Were you miscast? Did you do it for money? For fame? For the title? Whatever it was or is,

October 9, 2021

Greg Thomas

Everyone is waiting for you to Lead

You don’t need the title. You never needed it before, so why are you waiting for it now? If it’s the title that matters, give it to yourself. If that’s what you need to lead your team, give yourself the best title you can think of, print it up, and put it on your desk. We’re all home now, who’s going to see it? Take it a step further and make a fancy name card and put it on your desk – forget gold on black, go platinum on diamond so it really stands out and catches the light when

October 7, 2021

Greg Thomas

Make the Call to Fix the Real Problem

Years ago, I was building a new deck, and there was a curve in the wood. It wasn’t perfect, it was pretty obvious and in my inexperience, I thought we could cover it up with deck boards. I was wrong, it would have looked horrible. Thankfully I had my father-in-law to set me straight. We then proceeded the next 2 hours unscrewing it, hammering, jacking it, doing whatever we could to gain leverage and bend that curve. By the time we were done, it looked 1000% better and the final result would not have been as good if we didn’t

October 6, 2021

Greg Thomas

Team State Engines

Your team deserves to know what the plan is for the next year. They deserve to know what is coming next and what the plans are. They should know when the unknowns are coming at them and they are going to have to pivot and figure the rest out. They should know what the goals are and where you want to take them. Your team is an engine (huge difference from a factory) and if they don’t know what they should be doing when, how they work together or what they are going to need to do to handle the

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