When one door closes...
Things are changing.
I knew they would, so I'm not surprised or disappointed or angry. I just feel like writing saying it gives it a kind of finality. Like it's actually happening instead of just being in my head.
Let's rewind, shall we?
So my current manager is burned out. She wants to find a replacement. Early on in my career, I expressed an interest to her in managing. I certainly didn't expect it to be any time soon. I'm so young, after all, and I had just started at the time. Fast forward to last week. Boom. I find out that I'm under consideration to become a "co-manager" with her, with the possibility of taking over her position entirely whenever she decides to bow out.
This. Is. Awesome. This plays to my strengths. This is everything I want to do. I am fairly bursting with new ideas - ways to streamline, train, straighten, and strengthen my new group and create a happy, efficient workplace.
There is drama attached to this, as there always is. Another employee who honestly (and you must believe me when I say that I'm not saying this with any sort of personal bias) is not qualified for the job (or is even less qualified than me, at least) wants the chance to move up, too.
Game on, bitch. This is my position and I will fight to death for it.
Managers, co-managers, or even managers-in-training have a certain code of conduct they need to stick to, I think. Personable, but professional. Stern, but not mean. Strict, but not dictatorial. Trustworthy, fair, discreet, tactful, and open. Friendly, but not friends.
Friendly, but not friends.
This is what's changing. Because I have friends in my group, the group that I will be co-managing. I have no problem putting those friendships aside. I came here for a career, not for friends, and if my current friends want to stay friends, then it will have to happen outside of business hours and I will have to do my best to compartmentalize it.
However, there will have to be distance. This is unavoidable. My co-workers (subordinates? Ergh, not sure I like how that sounds quite yet, weirdly) will not feel comfortable sharing everything with me. Our methods of communication will be different. I will not be able to talk to them the same way, and they will not be able to talk to me in the same way, either.
Again, I knew this would happen. I'm not upset. It's just strange to experience it, and, if I'm being entirely honest, a little painful.
But it will be worth it in the end. It's a change and change is hard on everyone, but they (my employees? Oooh, I just got a shiver!) will adapt. I'll do everything I can to make this group what I know it can be.
I have a feeling that 2012 will be a great year.
I knew they would, so I'm not surprised or disappointed or angry. I just feel like writing saying it gives it a kind of finality. Like it's actually happening instead of just being in my head.
Let's rewind, shall we?
So my current manager is burned out. She wants to find a replacement. Early on in my career, I expressed an interest to her in managing. I certainly didn't expect it to be any time soon. I'm so young, after all, and I had just started at the time. Fast forward to last week. Boom. I find out that I'm under consideration to become a "co-manager" with her, with the possibility of taking over her position entirely whenever she decides to bow out.
This. Is. Awesome. This plays to my strengths. This is everything I want to do. I am fairly bursting with new ideas - ways to streamline, train, straighten, and strengthen my new group and create a happy, efficient workplace.
There is drama attached to this, as there always is. Another employee who honestly (and you must believe me when I say that I'm not saying this with any sort of personal bias) is not qualified for the job (or is even less qualified than me, at least) wants the chance to move up, too.
Game on, bitch. This is my position and I will fight to death for it.
Managers, co-managers, or even managers-in-training have a certain code of conduct they need to stick to, I think. Personable, but professional. Stern, but not mean. Strict, but not dictatorial. Trustworthy, fair, discreet, tactful, and open. Friendly, but not friends.
Friendly, but not friends.
This is what's changing. Because I have friends in my group, the group that I will be co-managing. I have no problem putting those friendships aside. I came here for a career, not for friends, and if my current friends want to stay friends, then it will have to happen outside of business hours and I will have to do my best to compartmentalize it.
However, there will have to be distance. This is unavoidable. My co-workers (subordinates? Ergh, not sure I like how that sounds quite yet, weirdly) will not feel comfortable sharing everything with me. Our methods of communication will be different. I will not be able to talk to them the same way, and they will not be able to talk to me in the same way, either.
Again, I knew this would happen. I'm not upset. It's just strange to experience it, and, if I'm being entirely honest, a little painful.
But it will be worth it in the end. It's a change and change is hard on everyone, but they (my employees? Oooh, I just got a shiver!) will adapt. I'll do everything I can to make this group what I know it can be.
I have a feeling that 2012 will be a great year.