Articles for category: Team

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 5, 2024

Greg Thomas

Leverage the Team

If you don’t have a team, get a team. A team can be anyone, random coworkers, related coworkers, family, or whatever. But get a team. And when you don’t know the answer. You ask the team, you leverage their skills and abilities in what you are trying to accomplish. That’s what they are there for, to help and support you. So get a team.

May 9, 2024

Greg Thomas

Building the Team

Teams are about picking the right people. Not always the best, but the right. With the right people, the team can do anything. With the wrong, they will never rise above where they are. What goes into being the right people – so much, and it’s different wherever you go but at its core – they have to be willing to change, to grow, to know when to lead and when to team and lastly they have to want to be there – from there, you can teach them anything.

April 2, 2024

Greg Thomas

What Meetings Used To Be

When they were smaller, you didn’t know you were having them. When you started using chat, you didn’t realize how much faster and simpler they made your life. The first time you had a call with more than two people you marveled at how much you got done in such a short time. When you got together to discuss a topic, a point, a problem – you didn’t need to write copious notes and have follow-up apps for follow-ups, everyone knew what had to happen next and they did it. The first time you had a huge town hall and

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