Articles for category: Team

January 6, 2023

Greg Thomas

The Cold Open

My favourite part of Remotely Prepared was the Cold Opens.  I saw them almost as these little microblogs that got the idea out to everyone as to what we were to discuss and had them interested to stay for the rest of the show. It’s why they are used so heavily in TV, if you can grab the audience in 30 seconds, they’ll stay for the remaining hour to see what happens.  If we apply this to our sales pitches, our conversations, our code, our meetings, and everything we do – then we spend more time on the message we

December 22, 2022

Greg Thomas

The Team Grump

They come and go, but at some point, they will rear their head, whether it’s a good day, a great day, or for no other reason that you know, they will emerge – the Team Grump. The Team Grump doesn’t know care for what you are doing, when you are doing it, how much it will help them, or why they are there – all they want to do is get out of there as fast as possible and continue grumping because that is where they are at. Everyone is a grump at some point during their work, it’s impossible

December 16, 2022

Greg Thomas

New Categories

I’ve held off on adding new categories to my posts for a while now as I generally think what you do comes down to behaviors of work that you do, but I know I’ve been writing about different areas of work that I’d like to bring more to the forefront and I’m also looking to change some of the content that I’ll be writing about. You’ll start seeing new categories such as Team (for remote, hybrid, office, team content), Ideas for posts that are simply that Ideas, and Developer where I want to get back to more technical content that

December 15, 2022

Greg Thomas

The Last Remotely Prepared

After 83 episodes over the course of a pandemic, Remotely Prepared has come to an end. Not because we couldn’t find anyone to come onto the show but because everything we set out to do, we accomplished. A quick thanks to my amazing co-host Colin who always keeps me on my toes and put up with my endless jokes while educating me along the way. To all the people we knew before and met as part of this project, thanks for your trust, this was a fantastic journey. If you want to start from the beginning. https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/remotely-prepared/id1514693059 And the last

December 14, 2022

Greg Thomas

The Organization After Party

The event to get organized is the most exciting event because you’re not really doing anything, you’re organizing the things that will happen. It’s the plan for the plan with a splash of optimism and hope because everything is possible. But like any party, it’s the after-party that’s the big show, and that’s when it gets interesting because that’s when you start to look at how to implement what you came up with in the first party. That’s when the jackets come off, the ties get loosened and the real party begins.

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