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May 19, 2017

Greg Thomas

Believing in Your Work

A struggle, in any profession, is looking at the work you’ve just finished creating and screaming at it… “BAH, THIS IS GARBAGE, WHO WILL WANT THIS” You could be a developer, writer, artist, product owner, carpenter, etc, etc, the list goes on.  It’s the moment where you feel slightly exhausted from what you have created, from what you have expended and the image between what is in your head and what is in front of you do not line up. It is frustrating, especially if the work you have created you are now expecting someone to buy (or perhaps even

May 18, 2017

Greg Thomas

Who Owns the Integration?

A while ago, I had a problem integrating the systems of two vendors together – both were advertised as being able to do such (which is why I went with them). After support calls on both sides, each side believed it was the other vendor’s problem and not theirs. In a connected economy where the bar upon dependency, trust and connection are raised higher than they ever have been here I was trying to get two partners who built a solution together to help me troubleshoot the system and work together. Neither wanted to.  When the road became rough, we fell back to the

May 17, 2017

Greg Thomas

Finding your Inner Sales

The days of having someone “do the sales” for you are over, we are all sales people now. Selling our products. Selling our services. Selling our ideas. Selling our innovation. Selling our brand. Selling our skills. In this new market economy, we are all salespeople, selling our ideas to our manager, selling your skills to a future employer, selling your products to a neighbour down the street and the list will go on. The difference today vs yesterday is the word “selling” – it’s not all for money and margins, it’s for recognition, self-confidence, quality of delivery, bonus features, brand

May 16, 2017

Greg Thomas

The Future of Training is Engagement

Think back to the best training session you ever attended. It could be one you attended, one that was held internally or maybe even one that you gave. What made it so special, what made it resonate with you and your team that when you left you all felt committed to take action and make something happen. What was the secret sauce in play? Now before you book your next training, hold it accountable to that bar, don’t let it waiver, it must hit or leap over that bar that you’ve set. Because you know you, you know your team

May 15, 2017

Greg Thomas

It doesn’t need to be your Idea

Anyone can come up with a good idea… even a semi-good idea… But can they execute on it? Can they put in all the work to make it happen? Can they deliver something so incredible that at the end of the day no one remembers the idea, but they remember the end result and the deliverable? Don’t get hung up on whether you thought up the next great idea of the century or if you are working on an idea someone else had that doesn’t want it anymore. Do get hung up on whether you turn it into something meaningful.