Articles for category: Team

August 15, 2023

Greg Thomas

New Teams

Joining a new team is never easy. You don’t know all the “things” and “isms” that make the team work (or are holding them back). Whether it is formal or informal, the new team is always waiting for one thing to happen – the leader to emerge – not to assert their dominance or mastery, but the one that helps out team members, that leads by example, listens, takes their lumps, does the grunt work and pushes on. The Leader might not be the one first appointed, but they are there, somewhere, perhaps even you, just waiting to emerge.

July 26, 2023

Greg Thomas

Training your Team

Only you know the training your team needs and only you know the path it requires for them to get there. They might be able to see it on the first day and it’s up to you to figure out how to get them there. You can either hold it into the very last day, or you can start from the beginning, map it out, do bit by bit every day, week, or month and plan for the moment when they get there and go – “I know this”.  Because when training the team, it’s not today they are being

July 25, 2023

Greg Thomas

Team Ignition

You can plan for it but guaranteed it won’t happen you want it to. Team Igntion happens the moment your team comes together and things start clicking amongst everyone in the group.  Everything starts happening and pieces start moving forward. You don’t know what made it happen, why it started now and not before, but this is the moment where it all starts happening. You can create the conditions for it, you can nurture it and grow it, but when it happens is anyone’s guess, the worst thing you can do – is try to force it.  Forcing it only

July 24, 2023

Greg Thomas

Out of Office Evolved

Out of Office started as a physical associate with a building.  You were either in the building or out of it – hence the auto-response. But now we are here, there, and everywhere and most of the time we are outside of the office. Presence engines use “Not Connected”, “Offline”, “Unavailable” or “Away” to explain when someone cannot take an instant message or call and this is shown by a variety of colors of icons as to when and where they are, sometimes with little notes attached. We’ve placed the focus on “alerting” people that we are out of the office when what

July 23, 2023

Greg Thomas

Focussing on Team Wins

A team wins when a team comes together. Those wins will always be subjective to you as the leader of the team – you know the difference between when the team is doing what they should do versus when they do something really great and come together for something entirely special. There is no category A or B when you’re picking Team Wins – every team is different and has a different set of goals and wins – don’t compare yourself to other teams – focus on what your wins are and make sure to celebrate them.

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