Articles for category: Team

October 2, 2023

Greg Thomas

The Best Offense

The Best Offense, talks together, knows who fits best, turns weaknesses into strengths, and celebrates all the victories big or small. They know setbacks aren’t the final result, but the next step towards success. And they don’t give up on each other.

October 1, 2023

Greg Thomas

A Team Learns Together

The best teams learn together. A new technology, a new approach, a new methodology. They realize the problem, they realize what they need to do, and they focus on it. And they learn. They stand, they fall, they try again, they screw up and they keep trying together. That’s what the best teams do – no need for one expert, when the entire team knows what they are doing.

September 27, 2023

Greg Thomas

Where’s the List?

The team needs a list. The leader defines the list. The list is everything that needs to be done from now until the team reaches their goals. It starts off big with chunky milestones and then breaks it down into more manageable activities until it becomes tasks that the team can work on and understand the point where their effort, their contributions, contribute to and become something bigger than they could accomplish on their own. But first, it starts with a list, of what must be done, to succeed.

August 17, 2023

Greg Thomas

Frosh Week for New Teams

Imagine instead of being thrown into your jobs, your next project, or your work that the first thing you do with a new team is you get to know them. You spent some time getting to know them, talking to them about things they care about, figuring out their work ethic, what their strengths and weaknesses are, etc, etc. Putting together a plan with all of them contributing as to the direction the team should take, who they want to be known as, and where they want to go? Imagine if you did that BEFORE you started working and didn’t

August 16, 2023

Greg Thomas

The Regulars

The regulars are the ones that show up every day. When times are good, when times are tough, when you’re flying high, or when you’re at the bottom, the regulars always show up for you, each and every day. They can be your family, your childhood friend, or the co-worker that you have kept in touch with year after year. The Regulars get a bad rap for being boring because they are always “there”, but this could not be further from the truth – they are always there, waiting to see what happens next, ready to jump in and help