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I'm a new supervisor. Earlier today, I was told by one of my staff that there was a difference between “Me Me” and “HR Me.”
I wanted to share something, but didn't know who with. I don't want to be whiny or whatever or weird someone out.
In this role, I have to balance an unbelievable number of things.
I didn’t realize before I took it what it was really all about… my last supervisor never shared anything with me about what to expect or anything (they left pretty quick), and I honestly never really asked any other supervisors about it before I knew that this was something I had the chance to do.
The hardest part for me is the balancing not of projects or priorities, but of people. You have to balance the wants, needs, proclivities, and quirks of people, not against yourself (that part’s easy: you let yourself go and focus on the other person), but against each other sometimes. This part is very, very hard.
You try as hard as you can to balance those things and take the responsibility to act when action is needed, and to know how to act, in what ways, for what purposes, to what end. You hope your decisions are sound and logical. You also hope that they’re right and just.
I’d like to think I haven’t changed in this role. That I’m still myself. But I have, and in some ways, it’s a good thing. Maybe even a very good thing.
In other ways, it’s soul-wrenching.
I thought a lot earlier this week how I must and can compartmentalize my own feelings when necessary, and I do. In this role, you have to put on a brave face, show calm not just through your words and your face, but through your fingertips, through your breathing.
But then I have to deal with that other stuff somehow, at home, with loved ones, with friends, or by myself on the basketball court, on the disc golf course, whatever.
I will work on how I can balance all of this a bit better. But it's tough.
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