You're Hired…Now What?

by | Jul 18, 2013 | Blog

For many of us, part of this last year was spent entrenched in a job search. As spring approached, we said our goodbyes, packed up, and shipped our stuff off to our next adventure. In many ways our physical transition has already happened, but stuck in summer, it’s easy to exist in the in-between. If you’re like me, then you’re also transitioning into a full-time admin position. In someways this summer feels similar to two years ago when I became a dad for the first time. The summer was filled with transitions, purchasing, and thinking about the future. Then suddenly I was at the hospital, our daughter was born, and a day later we were saying goodbye to the nurses, and thinking ‘wait a second am I really qualified to do this?’ Actually the birth of a child is an appropriate metaphor for a career in leadership, in the sense, that no matter how much preparation a person does, you can’t truly understand the responsibility until your holding your helpless child…or in the case of leadership standing in front of a room of suspicious teachers promoting the next big idea. However, like a child learns and grows though experience and parenting, our careers mature as we do more and more and work closely with others. Still the road leaders must often walk in the community can be lonely. Over the last few months, I’ve been meandering through the book “Leading with a Limp” by Dr. Dan Allendar, President of Mars Hill Graduate School in Seattle, Washington. In his book he describes the ruthless expectations we have for leaders saying,...