Your name was given to me by your supervisor because you
have expressed desire or interest to be a people leader. This is a huge
step in your career as many people with ambitions to go this route do not ever
let anyone know and thus continue to get passed over until they either give up
the desire or go somewhere else out of frustration. By stepping forward
you all are already ahead of those who keep their desires or interest to
themselves.
What I’d like to do is help you all get the knowledge you
will need to be ready to assume a people leader role should the
opportunity come up. To be clear, this is in no way a guarantee you’ll
get a people leader position. I simply want you all to be ready when an
opportunity presents itself.
Over the last 10 years I’ve learned a lot in the areas of
management, leadership, people leading, business acumen, and self-improvement.
Some of this (actually a lot of this) has been through learning the
hard way and a lot of what I share with you will be based off these hard
lessons learned. I have managed, mentored, and helped develop a lot
of different IT analyst in to people leader roles along the way. I’ve
learned a lot from each of them during this time and I continue to learn
more as I watch these leaders progress (and sometimes struggle) in their
roles. By no means am I an expert at developing others but I’m
continually refining and improving my skills. I’d like to help you all
develop into great leaders and high-potential management candidates.
In the coming weeks and months we’re going to have some
meetings, I’ll assign you all some work or topics to look in to, maybe a book
or two to read, and we’ll have some frank discussions on topics that relate to
all of this. None of this will be mandatory and if you wish to opt out
I’ll respect your decision to do so. While I’m not a formal teacher and I
make no guarantees, I believe I can help all of you better prepare for your
future career success.
I’m pretty excited for the opportunity to help you all and
I’m really looking forward to it. -don
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