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Jul. 22nd, 2006 12:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
graculus*swelters* It's now as warm here, at just after midnight, as the average temperature for the month this time of year. Unnatural weather.
Meanwhile, in other news, I've just completed my first week as acting team manager. And god help me, I've enjoyed it, so there is clearly no hope for me. I have to say I wasn't completely sure how the people I'm managing would take it, since I'm younger than at least five of them (I'm managing a team of nine) but I decided the best thing to do was just jump right in there.
That seems to have worked and even M (the most potentially problematic, since there's still an outstanding dispute between him and his former manager, who's currently off long-term sick, with mutual complaints of bullying and the unions involved) has apparently been quite happy with me being in charge.
Interviews for the post I'm currently covering are in a couple of weeks, so we'll see if they actually manage to get someone who's appointable, at least on a temporary basis - that's much more likely if there's someone likely from inside the council but I've not heard anything yet about who's applied for it. There are still some problems with the dynamics within the team and it's all been more than a little isolationist, so they need a strong manager to start to sort all that out. And no, I didn't apply for it.
At the moment I'm a bit torn, really - I like my other job, which is money for old rope and I've only been in post a year so it's much too early to be thinking about moving onwards and upwards. It's good experience, though, and maybe I'll change my mind in a while. At least I know now that if I can acquit myself well in this period and the current lot of senior managers hang around for a couple of years, I really won't have to work too hard to get a team manager post if/when I do decide I want it... ;)
Meanwhile, in other news, I've just completed my first week as acting team manager. And god help me, I've enjoyed it, so there is clearly no hope for me. I have to say I wasn't completely sure how the people I'm managing would take it, since I'm younger than at least five of them (I'm managing a team of nine) but I decided the best thing to do was just jump right in there.
That seems to have worked and even M (the most potentially problematic, since there's still an outstanding dispute between him and his former manager, who's currently off long-term sick, with mutual complaints of bullying and the unions involved) has apparently been quite happy with me being in charge.
Interviews for the post I'm currently covering are in a couple of weeks, so we'll see if they actually manage to get someone who's appointable, at least on a temporary basis - that's much more likely if there's someone likely from inside the council but I've not heard anything yet about who's applied for it. There are still some problems with the dynamics within the team and it's all been more than a little isolationist, so they need a strong manager to start to sort all that out. And no, I didn't apply for it.
At the moment I'm a bit torn, really - I like my other job, which is money for old rope and I've only been in post a year so it's much too early to be thinking about moving onwards and upwards. It's good experience, though, and maybe I'll change my mind in a while. At least I know now that if I can acquit myself well in this period and the current lot of senior managers hang around for a couple of years, I really won't have to work too hard to get a team manager post if/when I do decide I want it... ;)
