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January 28, 2021

Greg Thomas

Learn Your Team’s Habits

If you want to be the most for your team and help them get the succeed. The best way to do that is to learn their habits. How do they learn best? What tools help them work? What distractions are in their way? What do their schedules look like? Who do they work best? All of these questions (and more) help you put that picture together on how you can help your team and what they need from you. When you figure all that out, you have a picture, a view and a direction in what you should be doing

January 27, 2021

Greg Thomas

Starting a New Book

No matter how interesting the subject or how much I want to dive into it. Every time I start a new book the process is still the same – skip to the end and see how long it is. Even if it’s one I’m dying to read, the onset of reading a book is always a bit daunting to me – as though I’ll never get there, never make it – so why bother. This has actually prevented me from reading in the past to the point that I would have books pile up on my desk. I didn’t know

January 26, 2021

Greg Thomas

Development Days

Are you taking any this year? Can you take any? If you can’t, when are you finding the time to develop, grow and improve not only yourself and your business? The days of waiting for your manager to come to you with proposals for training are gone. The days of planning your own training schedule are now here and waiting for you to decide what to do. If you’re not going to take the time to reflect on your own growth that who will?

January 25, 2021

Greg Thomas

Team Activities

The hardest part about being remote from your team is trying to figure out how to engage them on an ongoing basis. How do you keep them involved? How do you keep them engaged? Team activities are a great way, to get out there and do something together. Look at the team activities you’ve done in the past year – escape rooms, sporting challenges, outdoor excursions – in some way, shape or form they all involve you being engaged and with your team (in close proximity). That might not be possible now, and if so does it mean you stop

January 24, 2021

Greg Thomas

Unfinished Projects

If your unfinished projects are adding up there are generally two approaches to solving them. One – Close them off so you don’t see them anymore. Two – Stop starting new projects until you finish the old ones. Both options involve some work in look at the old projects. But you haven’t been working on them at all, so that is why they are “old” projects in the first place, going back to them will just remind you of what they are and that you didn’t finish them. The third option, is to accept them for what they are, ideas