Hello everyone - I know I've been away too long. My guy and I are having a great time in getting to know one another and posting in a blog is the last thing I've been wanting to do. I'm sure you understand ;o)
Not that the 'honeymoon' of the relationship is over, I just have some spare time to give you the latest.
Where I work, I'm a lead admin. In this position, I manage the admin team for my group to ensure that the team provides stellar support, be the best they can be, yadda-yadda...Now I don't manage the admin on a personnel level; they each have their own manager that handles that - I business manage the team. It is kind of like program managing. Anyhow, I have a couple of admins that are a pain in the ASS - ok to be more precise; a pain in my ASS. They are constantly putting up road blocks, getting their managers involved, etc. I trusted the team and figured I'd go to the team first, working it with them and try to make the team cohesive. Well that was the wrong thing to do! Two of the four admins that I lead don't want to be led - both suck at being a team player, although one is worse than the other. Sooooo right now my life sucks big ones at work. BUT, I'll have it fixed as time goes by. I realize now that I should have talked to their managers FIRST - to get their buy-off in what I'm trying to do with the team. As far as I'm concerned, my number one job as a lead is to ensure that the GM's (General Manager's) expectations of the admin team are met. The General Manager is my manager.
Listen everyone, I wasn't born to lead. I was born to follow, and to be perfectly honest, I don't mind following. This leading crap leaves a lot to be desired. My peers at work are telling me to hang in there, everything will be fine, I'm a fine leader. HA!
Oh and by the way, I got a 7.65% pay raise!
That's what I'm talkking abooot!
-xo
Not that the 'honeymoon' of the relationship is over, I just have some spare time to give you the latest.
Where I work, I'm a lead admin. In this position, I manage the admin team for my group to ensure that the team provides stellar support, be the best they can be, yadda-yadda...Now I don't manage the admin on a personnel level; they each have their own manager that handles that - I business manage the team. It is kind of like program managing. Anyhow, I have a couple of admins that are a pain in the ASS - ok to be more precise; a pain in my ASS. They are constantly putting up road blocks, getting their managers involved, etc. I trusted the team and figured I'd go to the team first, working it with them and try to make the team cohesive. Well that was the wrong thing to do! Two of the four admins that I lead don't want to be led - both suck at being a team player, although one is worse than the other. Sooooo right now my life sucks big ones at work. BUT, I'll have it fixed as time goes by. I realize now that I should have talked to their managers FIRST - to get their buy-off in what I'm trying to do with the team. As far as I'm concerned, my number one job as a lead is to ensure that the GM's (General Manager's) expectations of the admin team are met. The General Manager is my manager.
Listen everyone, I wasn't born to lead. I was born to follow, and to be perfectly honest, I don't mind following. This leading crap leaves a lot to be desired. My peers at work are telling me to hang in there, everything will be fine, I'm a fine leader. HA!
Oh and by the way, I got a 7.65% pay raise!
That's what I'm talkking abooot!
-xo
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1 Comments:
Way to go! Long time, no hear.
So how have you been?
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