Articles for category: Team

July 10, 2023

Greg Thomas

Communicating Value

There are lots of articles and blogs out there that start with… “How to get out of…” “Why you shouldn’t attend…” “How to avoid…” “Skip this if you can…” The content is generally the same and focuses on how you shouldn’t attend specific meetings. What it comes down to in any of these cases, all the time is and always will be valued. Do you bring value to the meeting?  Talk with who set it up, maybe you are missing something? Are you not sure what the point of the meeting is?  Talk with the organizer, maybe they have a

July 3, 2023

Greg Thomas

Building a new Team

When building a new team, the most important factors to look for; What do you need? When do you need it by? Can they help you get to what you need? Do they have time to be on the team? Everyone wants to be on the team, but whether they can help with what you need and whether they have the time to be on the team? These are the critical factors that will define your success, you aren’t there to shoulder the load of the team, you’re there to build the team to implement it.

June 3, 2023

Greg Thomas

Isms

Every team has them. The “Ism” – the CodeIsm, the EnterpriseIsm, the SupportIsm. They are the ideas, the culture, the vernacular that makes your team, your team and separates it from everyone else. They are the rallying cry for getting things done and delivering. They are a good thing to have as long as they project the good of your team and not the “that’s the way we have always done it”, “that’s how it works”, “we don’t know what it really does” – then they go from being an “ism” to a problem.

May 19, 2023

Greg Thomas

We Haven’t Learned from Being Remote

We’re back to enforcing people to exist in person to trust that they will do the job. For two years we trusted everyone, we found the best and the brightest that got work done – we might have slowed down – but we got work done. And now we’re back to enforcing limits on how and where people can deliver from. What did we learn during this forced remote experiment that we all took part in?

May 15, 2023

Greg Thomas

The Next Team Event

Have you scheduled it yet? Have you thought about it? Are you waiting for someone else to do it? What’s your Budget? Team events don’t need to be expensive, they can definitely be simple and their entire goal is to bring people together, have some laughs, and get to know each other better. The smallest team events that have been ad-hoc, end of the day, 30 minutes to an hour I rate better than the long-planned out ones, that cost thousands, where were listened to a few people speak and not everyone. The best part about Team events, anyone on

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