Articles for category: Leadership

April 6, 2021

Greg Thomas

Planning for the People

The Hardest plan to work on is one where it’s about the people on your team. On their growth. Taking into account their skills. What they are able to accomplish. What level they are at. It’s not a plan for you and what you need, it’s a plan for them and what they need. Many managers will struggle with this type of planning because the line between their goals that they need to achieve and what their people need are not always in alignment. Having to forgo their goals in favour of someone on their team is not something that

April 4, 2021

Greg Thomas

The Spring Clean

Going through the list of everything you need to do once winter is over is an exciting time. You have lists for your lists of everything you are going to get done, everything that is going to be cleaned up and made better. The excitement is in the air as the snow melts and you start to smell the fresh grass (somewhere in between everything else that you are smelling). And when you start the work, it feels phenomenal, you are whipping through tasks, making headway and knocking things off your list. But here’s the question you probably aren’t asking

April 1, 2021

Greg Thomas

Leadership is Now Free!

Now with each promotion you get all of the leadership free – for every scenario you have ever thought of and/or considered now or in the future. Even if you don’t get a promotion, you can download all the scenarios for free from Google and have everything downloaded into your brain. All that hard work you’ve been doing all these years? No more, you’re good to go, just download leadership and you’ll be good to go. No, it’s not that easy, it never has been and if it was, it wouldn’t be fun. Happy April Fools (sorry if you clicked

March 22, 2021

Greg Thomas

Let Them Speak

When discussing an issue with a team member, you already know there is an issue – that’s why you setup the meeting. But when you get the meeting, your role isn’t to talk, your role is to ask a question and wait. Wait as long as it takes, but wait. The silence will be deafening, good, that’s the point. If you keep filling the air with words, you are never going to let them speak. Even if what they are saying is wrong, take notes, let them go on and wait until the end. You need to hear from them,

March 21, 2021

Greg Thomas

Elbows No More

We used to be elbow to elbow, and it’s looking like that won’t happen until late Fall, maybe early winter. And honestly, who really wants to go back to work starting in November when its rain and darkness city? But we’re no longer elbows apart, we’re no longer rolling our chairs around to talk to someone. We’re apart, and we’re trying to replicate that or create something new. Your old values might have been about being close to one another, but now it’s changed, and if you’re implementing that change (great) just don’t forget to reflect them in your core

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