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September 24, 2020

Greg Thomas

The Hard Decisions made Remotely

It can be very tough right now to have the hard conversations with your team – when everyone is remote, when people are going through their own struggles, when each day is drastically more different than the last. But the Hard Decisions aren’t going anywhere. You are still going to have to handle them in a remote environment. Whether it’s over the phone or in video, you are going to have make the hard decisions for the benefit of whatever project you are working on and whatever team you are leading. For the sole reason, that they need you to.

September 23, 2020

Greg Thomas

Try

You will mess up. It won’t be perfect. You will get it wrong. You’ll probably stumble. They might laugh at you. But maybe… You’ll learn something new. Realize where you went wrong. Figure out where you really want to go. Meet a new friend. But you’ll never know if you don’t try. Forget what could go wrong and please, just try.

September 23, 2020

Greg Thomas

Remote Mentorship

For our final interview of Season 1 of Remotely Prepared, we were fortunate to sit down with Stacy Cassio – Founder & CEO of the Pink Mentor Network. It was a great interview and a perfect note to end the season on as Stacy talks about her experiences in growing her mentorship company on a remote scale. There is a ton of great information in it, so if you haven’t had a chance to listen to it, here it is. Full Episode

September 22, 2020

Greg Thomas

Onboarding is Changing

We used to put a lot of effort into what someone would see at their desk when they arrived on their first day. Some getting started reading, some papers to sign, a great workstation with new equipment, perhaps a lunch out on the first day to get to know you better and of course, the flybys by the leadership team throughout the day welcoming you to the company. How much of this is still happening? And if it is how are you giving it that personal feel to it? Are the equipment and books coming straight from Amazon? Are the

September 21, 2020

Greg Thomas

Learning Something New

It’s hard to learn something new when you see someone mastering it. You watch as they make it look so simple, effortless and without even breaking a sweat. And then you go to do it and you fall on your face. You don’t see the time they put into learning the skill. You don’t see the mistakes they made. You don’t see the tricks they learned. All you see is where they got to. It doesn’t matter how accomplished you are in your area of expertise, when we learn something new, we all go back to square 1. Things to