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December 29, 2016

Greg Thomas

The Internal Out of Office

I had never seen one of these before up until a few weeks ago. Think about if you received an auto-reply from a colleague that read somewhat like this… “I can’t respond to your email right now, I’m working on this great project right now and will try to get back to you later.” What’s the project? How great is it? What do I need to do, to be a part of it? How can I help by keeping emails like mine out of your way? Very simply this conveys interest, excitement, passion and of course, curiosity. I haven’t used

December 28, 2016

Greg Thomas

The Expansion Experiment

I think what helps any of us grow, in any field, is seeing the different approaches that people take in totally different fields to solve similar problems. Whether it be a function of leadership, team development, personal growth where there is alignment between the fields of interest. Even more interesting is to learn how people approach problems I have never seen, heard or even thought of and seek to understand how they approached this problem. With this in mind, I went to my LinkedIn feed and noticed that the bulk of people I interact with are all in some way

December 27, 2016

Greg Thomas

Being Stuck with Nowhere To Go

Have you ever felt stuck in where you are? Not sure where to go or what to do next? Not confident that you can even take that first step? Are you feeling more confined merely by reading the first few lines in this post? You shouldn’t. Being stuck is the best place to be – it’s in those moments of being stuck that we force ourselves to take a step back and look at where we are, where we want to go and formulate plans on how we are going to get there. When we are zipping here, there and

December 26, 2016

Greg Thomas

Don’t worry about who gets Credit

If you are not there to make the presentation that you have slaved over for months, will people still recognize and appreciate that it was done by you and not the stand in? How much does it matter if they don’t? The people who don’t know you will assume (their mistake) that it is the presenter who has done everything. The people who do you know you, will see your touch, your fingerprints, your passion all over it and they will know without a doubt whose work they are looking at but is being presented by someone else. The question then becomes

December 23, 2016

Greg Thomas

Creating vs Building Team Culture

One is trying to bring something into existence (Create) and the other is trying to assemble, fabricate or join “things” together into something (Build). When you Create something you are trying to bring life to something from the ground-up, to inspire and motivate those around you to help you so whatever your something is it can come to life. Building something involves putting components together (in some cases against a plan) in the hope that you will have something. We Create cars and houses when they are conceptual bundles of new ideas and are unique to themselves.  When the need comes