Change: A Day in the Life Sunday

Change is good. It's not always easy and it's not always welcome but, one way or another, the need for change will present itself in ways that you cannot avoid, ignore or explain away.

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Embrace it, it's here and it's long overdue.

So, what's this all about? I promise you it's not as grandiose as you may think. I am adding leadership staff to my HR department. I am turning over the reins. Not all the reins and not all at once - it's simply not in my nature - but it will be done.

The facility has expanded dramatically in size and complexity and the HR staff of seven I started with over nine years ago has blossomed to over 16. Supervisors, managers and senior leaders support me to no end. My staff is a-m-a-z-i-n-g and they do whatever it takes to deliver quality HR services every day - even when I am there but not available to them.

They deserve more and I expect more from myself.

I know the kind of leader I want to be and I haven't been delivering. Not even close. We've expanded past the point that I can lead staff, manage delivery of HR services, facilitate change and respond to the myriad needs of our supervisor, managers and leaders well on my own.

Despite encouragement to add leadership staff, I struggled to get past the idea that "I can do it with the resources I have." Once I faced reality that I was not delivering, the rest was easy. I set out to find skilled professionals I could trust with my vision and my people. I found them.

My new Lead Labor Relations guy joins my new Assistant Chief tomorrow. Health care system supervisors, managers and HR staff will have ready access to two more HR leaders, I will share my workload (it's all about me, remember?) and we will build on new ideas, expertise and perspective to take the department to new heights.

I get giddy (yes, I just said giddy) when I think about the possibilities. 

My New Site: A Day in the Life Sunday

I've moved! If you are reading this in a reader, click through to check out the new site.

You have to know, I resisted every urge to icon this site up and have it perfect before it went live and thanks to a domain mapping experience that went MUCH quicker and easier than I thought it would, I am live now.

Why the new site, new look, very few icons? I'll share more about my goals at the end of this post and in another post. For now, I have details to clean up and kudos to make.

Details

I am moving email subscriptions from Feedburner to Mailchimp. If you subscribing through Feedburner, please click on the envelope to the right to join my mailing list and you will continue to receive updates delivered to your email. I am not going to deactivate Feedburner email subscriptions yet but will as soon as I am confident I have this working right.

You will receive an email when there is new content and, moving forward, it'll be how I can share my best ideas with you beyond the blog. Need more? Ok, email subscribers will be the first to receive a copy of my manifesto (draft title: Grow up and Lead) as soon as I write it.

I am updating RSS feeds, creating a domain email and the like. If anything at all is not working well on your receiving end of this, i.e. spammy messages, not receiving what you should be receiving (if you are know) - let me know right away and I'll get on it. Ok?

Kudos

The template you are seeing is new from Squarespace 6. I heart them for their customer service and support.

The header and fun, creative feel of the site is the genius of Lizzie Maldonado, B2B social media marketer and Social Media Manager for StarrConspiracy. Lizzie is amazing and I'd like to publicly thank her *applause*applause*applause* for all she has done so far to help me create my new space.

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Here it goes. I am hitting publish for the first time on the new platform. One of my goals was for you to smile like I do when I enter the site. So, how did Lizzie and I do?