Articles for category: Leadership

May 3, 2021

Greg Thomas

Getting on the Same Page?

The expression is to “get everyone on the samge page” because often we are not on the same page. We are on different pages, we have our own ideas, some are behind, some are ahead. Invariably at the beginning, we are all on different pages through no fault on our own. The challenge for the leader is to get everyone onto the same page with one important caveat – it’s not about getting everyone onto their page, but rather getting everyone onto the same page – even if it differs from their own. That’s the tricky part.

May 2, 2021

Greg Thomas

Team Events in a Remote World

I wanted to find a way to have a team event that wasn’t going to be repetitive from what we had had recently. We’d done the Take Out Tuesday and the odd drinks but those were just a few people chatting. This needed to be for 30+ people who I wanted to have a good laugh and also very much pat them on the back for the great work that they had been doing. What I came up with was a game of – “How well do you know your team?” – with the wink being towards how long we

April 26, 2021

Greg Thomas

Lead By Effort

Sometimes you will get it right, other times you will get it wrong. In both cases, people will probably be watching, especially if you’re leading the team. Your example that you are trying to lead by will sometimes fall flat on your face, such is life, you try to do the best for your team, for your project and it doesn’t work out. When these situations crop up, it’s easy to say – “well that was dumb, I’m going to go back to telling people what to do, because when I try to show them, I mess it up.” I

April 26, 2021

Greg Thomas

Are you Leading to Sell?

Long ago, I was working with a company when one of the managers told me that the CEO was running the company to Sell not to grow. I didn’t understand it at the time but six months later the company sold. When you’re positioning a company to sell, what happens externally to it are very important and how it looks. You aren’t thinking about growth in regards to – we need to hire two more people to keep managing demand – instead its about, lets see what we can do with what we have and keep the cash on hand.

April 16, 2021

Greg Thomas

No, I’m Not Tired of Zoom

I am tired of people not showing up for meetings. Showing up can take the form of any or some of the following; Not preparing for the meeting. Interrupting people. Setting the meeting back with irrelevant questions. I’m tired of those things happening on my ZOOM calls. Yes we might be tired of having to have all the meetings, but let’s not confuse ZOOM with our inherent meeting culture which is the real problem.

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