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May 25, 2020

Greg Thomas

Feeling Anti-Burnout?

If burnout is the scenario where you overwork yourself to the bone to get a delivery out the door, Anti-Burnout must be the scenario where you can’t focus to get anything done, you don’t feel like you can make anything happen and you don’t know where to start. While Burnout requires rest, stopping and breathing, Anti-Burnout requires you to do something to break out of the funk that you might be feeling. Some ideas; Make a Weekly To Do, start small, check off each thing you do each week. Walk/Run, again start small, no one is saying go for 45

May 22, 2020

Greg Thomas

How to Show up for an Online Meeting?

If you want your online meeting to succeed you are going to have to commit to taking the following steps on an ongoing basis; Start on time. Come Prepared. Know is expected of you. Understand what the goal of the meeting is for. Validate your connectivity. And this is only if you are an attendee on the call – the list for a presenter is all this and more. Want more? Check out my book Code Your Way Up – available as an eBook or Paperback on Amazon (CAN and US).

May 21, 2020

Greg Thomas

Muted

In a heated meeting, where everyone has an opinion and reason for being there, we all have something to say. However, this is no excuse for speaking over one another and interrupting people. In a meeting room, you can see the passion coming from people as they speak and as you make eye contact with your interrupted colleague to let them rant on so that we can get back to the topic at hand you let it go. But in an online call, where you don’t turn on video, we can mute you and get back to the topic at

May 20, 2020

Greg Thomas

What Online Conferences Miss

It would happen in more meetings than I would care to admit. But as you’re presenting, no matter the size of the group, there would be a side conversation that would start between two people at the back. It wouldn’t be malicious in intent, but the purpose was for them to discuss the topic at hand quietly and realize that they were both lost or that they both had the same question. There is strength in numbers and that’s what would then give them confidence to ask a question. In Online conferences, you don’t have someone sitting next to you.

May 19, 2020

Greg Thomas

Sometimes You Need a Project

Projects help learn new skills and get things done. People don’t learn to build houses by writing books about them and doing it all in their head without ever picking up a hammer. And it’s not entirely practical to go pick a plot of land and start building a house. Find a project that can lend itself to helping you learn a new skill. Want to learn AWS? Focus on a component of AWS, some piece of code that you can use to manage your life, maybe an app for your phone, anything that can be small enough for you