Articles for category: Leadership

July 4, 2024

Greg Thomas

Communication Patterns Gone Wrong

Communication goes through many people. Along the way, it can become distorted, messages missed, and chaos and confusion ensue, the left hand doesn’t know what the right is doing, and no one is sure what the other is doing. This happens, even with the best of teams, it happens. There is a trap that comes with these blips in communication – more meetings, more checkpoints, more communication – more, more, more – we need to scale the quantity of what we are doing because that will make it better. This is false. The harder discussion is to discuss the quality

June 29, 2024

Greg Thomas

Be the Glue

You don’t always need to be the leader, sometimes you need to be the glue. Sometimes all your team needs is someone holding them together as they work through a tough release or deliverable. They don’t need future inspiration that will come down the road. They need someone focused on the now to get them through it.

June 28, 2024

Greg Thomas

The Parts of your Team

When something in your house breaks, you generally need to go find a part to fix it. You go to the store, you find the part, and then you figure out how to take the old, broken part off and put the new shiny one on. Sometimes they fit perfectly like a glove, like they were designed for it.  But most times they don’t, either what you have is too old and you are now trying to mesh it with something new or vice-versa. Regardless, you push to make it work, because if you don’t, well, whatever that thing that

June 18, 2024

Greg Thomas

The Check-Ins

How often do you check-in with your team? I don’t mean a sprint meeting, I mean an actual check-in? We put a lot of focus on this during the pandemic, but are you still doing it? Why not?  No time, no love for the team? If you’re not checking in with your team, how do you know how they are doing? Do you know how they are doing? You probably don’t, and if you don’t, you don’t know how they are doing and where they are going – and that’s what you’re missing out on.

June 6, 2024

Greg Thomas

Knowing when to Shift

Cars shift. If you’re driving standard, it’s a more pronounced shift, you need to initiate it, otherwise, the engine keeps revving. The persistent revving of the engine is the cue for you to know when to shift, you know by the sound that it can’t maintain its push unless you shift to a higher gear. Knowing when to shift, either yourself or your team is critical to growth and not as simple to determine as a car.  Figuring out when your team needs to shift is one of the most important jobs of any leader – it’s what ensures measured,

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