Levelling Up with Katie Thomas
Sam Panetta chats with Katie Thomas of Focus Finance about levelling up: learning from others, wins earned and lessons learned.
There’s always someone with more experience than you. Katie levels up by learning from them and bringing the best bits back to her team.
1) There’s always someone further ahead
There are always people with more experience than you, and people living different lives to you. Each of them is a chance to learn.
- Seek out more experienced people.
- Different lives bring different lessons.
2) Ask them how they think
Katie’s approach is simple curiosity: “Tell me all about your brain, your life and how you live your day.”
- Be genuinely curious.
- Ask how they run their day.
3) Take what fits, leave the rest
Some ideas she hears would be great for her team, so she brings them back. Others she knows won’t work for her, and she leaves those alone. Over time, you just keep accumulating data.
- Bring the good ideas back to your team.
- Leave what doesn’t fit.
- Keep accumulating data.
The biggest lesson from Katie Thomas
Level up by learning from people further ahead, keeping the ideas that would help your team, and leaving the rest.
