I'm getting rid of my old Wolves shirts, hockey jerseys, Steeler t shirts, LA Galaxy shirts, and England shirts. Is there a charity that I can give them to? I remember seeing a link somewhere, but can't remember if it was on TWF. Thanks in advance.
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Dublin Drummer Wolf
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After two weeks of ramp up and shadowing, I unofficially begin working as a team leader from Mon as my boss has got two weeks of AL to use up so she has finished up today and I'm on my own from next week!
Pretty nervous tbh. Any advice on people management is much appreciated!
Pretty nervous tbh. Any advice on people management is much appreciated!
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Fuck 'em all, people are wankers!
Good luck DDW
(Alternatively if you're a decent human being people tend to treat you decently).
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So 2 weeks in and it hasn't been that bad tbh. There's been good days and bad, but overall it hasn't been as bad as I thought.
Every day I keep telling myself 'dont drop the ball' and have been using lists in a notebook to write down all the random ad hoc shit that comes my way every day. So that helps me not forget things.
I am also learning how to prioritise and be selfish with my time, as I now get pinged all the time about every bastard tiny little thing, and I'm now CC'd on every email when one of my team thinks I need to know or be part of something, which is fine but most of the time it's inane stuff about whatever product they are training, some update to Policy or some meeting they think I should attend.
I am using the Priority matrix to try identify what is Important and Urgent, and then work around that as time allows.
The reporting side has been a pain in the arse as I fucking hate spreadsheets and all that, but I've got a great team member who knows how to use all the formulas to take away the hard work which has been an amazing help.
On a human level, that side has been easy. Im a decent guy, so it's not hard for me to bond with the team. I am going with the whole positive re-enforcement mixed with honesty approach. I shadowed a new trainers class for 2hrs this morning and used the sandwich approach to give constructive feedback, told her that her deck was excellent but she should slow down in her delivery and include more energizers as the audience were very flat seeing how it was 9am on a Fri morning.
I took the team out for dinner last weekend and in general am trusting them to carry out their tasks without me constantly having to micro manage which is working so far.
The hard part is managing the teams abroad, we use Hangouts for video calls and its not the same, you schedule meetings and then people just dont show up or they can only book a meeting room for 10 mins etc. I tried to fly myself out to Lisbon next week as we have a big class starting on the Trainer is on AL so we are getting support from existing agents and subject matter experts. But we also have 2 classes starting in DUB next week and one of them is a Pilot, where we are testing a new curriculum, so I need to be around for that.
Add on top of all this, people fainting in class, people calling in sick so need cover organised, AL requests and constant requests for trainings plus interviewing people to replace me as a Product Trainer and I am fooking exhausted tbh
Every day I keep telling myself 'dont drop the ball' and have been using lists in a notebook to write down all the random ad hoc shit that comes my way every day. So that helps me not forget things.
I am also learning how to prioritise and be selfish with my time, as I now get pinged all the time about every bastard tiny little thing, and I'm now CC'd on every email when one of my team thinks I need to know or be part of something, which is fine but most of the time it's inane stuff about whatever product they are training, some update to Policy or some meeting they think I should attend.
I am using the Priority matrix to try identify what is Important and Urgent, and then work around that as time allows.
The reporting side has been a pain in the arse as I fucking hate spreadsheets and all that, but I've got a great team member who knows how to use all the formulas to take away the hard work which has been an amazing help.
On a human level, that side has been easy. Im a decent guy, so it's not hard for me to bond with the team. I am going with the whole positive re-enforcement mixed with honesty approach. I shadowed a new trainers class for 2hrs this morning and used the sandwich approach to give constructive feedback, told her that her deck was excellent but she should slow down in her delivery and include more energizers as the audience were very flat seeing how it was 9am on a Fri morning.
I took the team out for dinner last weekend and in general am trusting them to carry out their tasks without me constantly having to micro manage which is working so far.
The hard part is managing the teams abroad, we use Hangouts for video calls and its not the same, you schedule meetings and then people just dont show up or they can only book a meeting room for 10 mins etc. I tried to fly myself out to Lisbon next week as we have a big class starting on the Trainer is on AL so we are getting support from existing agents and subject matter experts. But we also have 2 classes starting in DUB next week and one of them is a Pilot, where we are testing a new curriculum, so I need to be around for that.
Add on top of all this, people fainting in class, people calling in sick so need cover organised, AL requests and constant requests for trainings plus interviewing people to replace me as a Product Trainer and I am fooking exhausted tbh
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Need advice about how to bollock someone who is a level above me:
The trainers have a weekly catch up meeting at 4:30pm with the Operation Manager about who is a risk, who might fail training etc. For the last 3 weeks the Ops Manager has not shown up, wasting the trainers time.
Today I told my guys to ping him beforehand to ensure he was going to the meeting. He replied asking could they push it back to 4:45pm. 2 trainers went to the meeting and the Ops Manager never showed up again. The trainers waited for him til 5:15pm.
This is the 3rd time and it not only wasted my trainers time but also the trainees time as they were told to do some self study for half an hour when they could have been doing something else.
So Im pissed off and need to have a word with this guy. I want to tell him how disrespectful I thought it was, and how I would never disrespect his time like that, but he is a level higher than me. So.... whats the best most professional way to deal with this?
The trainers have a weekly catch up meeting at 4:30pm with the Operation Manager about who is a risk, who might fail training etc. For the last 3 weeks the Ops Manager has not shown up, wasting the trainers time.
Today I told my guys to ping him beforehand to ensure he was going to the meeting. He replied asking could they push it back to 4:45pm. 2 trainers went to the meeting and the Ops Manager never showed up again. The trainers waited for him til 5:15pm.
This is the 3rd time and it not only wasted my trainers time but also the trainees time as they were told to do some self study for half an hour when they could have been doing something else.
So Im pissed off and need to have a word with this guy. I want to tell him how disrespectful I thought it was, and how I would never disrespect his time like that, but he is a level higher than me. So.... whats the best most professional way to deal with this?
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I always just used to bollock them, I didn't give a fuck who they were. This is probably why I didn't climb the corporate ladder :icon_lol:
Presumably you have to feedback to your immediate bosses about how these meetings go, I would mention that there are repeated instances of him not showing up and it's impacting on your ability to deliver what you need to. Definitely don't go down the road of passive aggressive emails where you CC in a ton of senior people, cunt's trick that.
Presumably you have to feedback to your immediate bosses about how these meetings go, I would mention that there are repeated instances of him not showing up and it's impacting on your ability to deliver what you need to. Definitely don't go down the road of passive aggressive emails where you CC in a ton of senior people, cunt's trick that.
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So... yeah I could do with some opinions :icon_lol:
I started a job at the end of August with a football club's community trust, basically based in a school as a 'community hub officer'. This job is quite broad though so I find myself quite stretched across different things. First two weeks were horrific for me personally, and I could honestly feel my mental health (if that is the right way to phrase it) taking a bit of a battering. It took me by surprise a bit as I hadn't felt like this before but the slightest thing going wrong would really knock me back, and I'd break down a bit. I've just come straight out of my masters, which I have done really well in and I feel like I have just rushed myself into a job that I wasn't that excited about in the first place when I applied.
The next two weeks improve as I get a grip on the job but the commute is still really wearing my down, and I just have no social life. Last Thursday the Leyton Orient academy manager rings me (out of the blue) asking me if I was interested in coaching their under 13s, as my name had been put forward by someone at the club and that my name had come up a couple of times previously anyway. I tell him I will think about it as I have just started a FT job but that it does really interest me, as my aspiration is to work in academy football. He says to give him a call back when I've had a think.
I haven't called him back yet, but I'm conscious of how it will look if I leave a full time job after a month for a part time one (or just nothing at all if I didn't get the role at Orient), and also the people it will impact on? I don't particularly like my boss either if I am honest, and I'm not even convinced he rates/likes me that much anyway either. I just don't like the idea of letting people down or leaving others in the lurch when I have just started and it will take them time to replace me. I'm still in my probationary period of course too. For example, the people I work with at the school have been great to me, are really good people and even sympathised about some of the things I have had issues with.
I also don't know if I am just too much of a coward to tell people I am leaving too if I do that, ha.
EDIT: It was also just nice to vent a bit
I started a job at the end of August with a football club's community trust, basically based in a school as a 'community hub officer'. This job is quite broad though so I find myself quite stretched across different things. First two weeks were horrific for me personally, and I could honestly feel my mental health (if that is the right way to phrase it) taking a bit of a battering. It took me by surprise a bit as I hadn't felt like this before but the slightest thing going wrong would really knock me back, and I'd break down a bit. I've just come straight out of my masters, which I have done really well in and I feel like I have just rushed myself into a job that I wasn't that excited about in the first place when I applied.
The next two weeks improve as I get a grip on the job but the commute is still really wearing my down, and I just have no social life. Last Thursday the Leyton Orient academy manager rings me (out of the blue) asking me if I was interested in coaching their under 13s, as my name had been put forward by someone at the club and that my name had come up a couple of times previously anyway. I tell him I will think about it as I have just started a FT job but that it does really interest me, as my aspiration is to work in academy football. He says to give him a call back when I've had a think.
I haven't called him back yet, but I'm conscious of how it will look if I leave a full time job after a month for a part time one (or just nothing at all if I didn't get the role at Orient), and also the people it will impact on? I don't particularly like my boss either if I am honest, and I'm not even convinced he rates/likes me that much anyway either. I just don't like the idea of letting people down or leaving others in the lurch when I have just started and it will take them time to replace me. I'm still in my probationary period of course too. For example, the people I work with at the school have been great to me, are really good people and even sympathised about some of the things I have had issues with.
I also don't know if I am just too much of a coward to tell people I am leaving too if I do that, ha.
EDIT: It was also just nice to vent a bit
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If you can afford to go part time go for the Orient job. There's no point in staying in a job you don't like just to do the right thing, especially when the other is what you do want to do.
Probationary / trial periods are there for both sides, there's no shame in ducking out during one.
Probationary / trial periods are there for both sides, there's no shame in ducking out during one.
