Articles for category: Team

November 29, 2024

Greg Thomas

What you Bring to your Team?

Everyone brings the same thing to their teams. Skills, Attitude, and Effort. Skills – whatever your job is. Attitude – how you treat people and act when things go wrong. Effort – how much you put into the team. The best teams I have worked with excelled in attitude, energy, and skill.  It doesn’t mean there is a great disparity between all three, what it does mean is that the group knows where their focus needs to be – how they treat and work with each other, how they operate (always complaining vs trying to work through problems) and what

November 27, 2024

Greg Thomas

Establishing Support Systems

Support Systems are what keep us going. They can be a network of friends or former work colleagues that we have previously worked with. Your Support System doesn’t need to be large, in fact, it shouldn’t be, otherwise, they will never be there to support you. Keep it small, keep it tight – you only need a handful of people to remind you that you’re on the right path or be honest with you that you’re missing the mark. Support Systems tell you the truth because they are based on trust – you value their words, because you trust them.

November 14, 2024

Greg Thomas

Learning the New Team

When I started with a team that did Agile and I didn’t, I learned Agile. When I started with a team that used TypeScript and I didn’t, I learned TypeScript. This doesn’t mean I didn’t throw in my own suggestions or bowed down to what was there but it did mean I learned the systems that were in place that had made that team successful.  Along the way, I made suggestions for them and us to improve as a whole. Coming into an existing team, there is a dynamic, a flow, that has already been established, unless you’re there to

October 18, 2024

Greg Thomas

There is no losing Team

Yeah, yeah, I know – there is always a team that wins. But when you lose… Did you get smarter? Did you get better? Did you get stronger? Did you learn what works and what doesn’t? Did you figure out what you would change for next time? Did you build a team? Did that team survive? You can lose and come out better for it.

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