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I’m now officially the Acting GA Manager. Which doesn’t change anything at all except more people know about it I’ve been doing the job for a while now, but lately I’ve managed to start off a number of things which are really helping both me and the team. We have a new Technical Architect as well who comes from a background of very large development teams, so he’s been giving me some good advice as well.

Right now I’m preparing for when we get the new IT manager, so that I can demonstrate on paper what our skillsets are, where we’re heading and how we’re relevant to the new systems and directions being brought into LP. Everyone seems on board with that too, and so far everything’s going well. I’ve had a number of meetings sorting out problems between some of the business units, and finally getting things organised now that I have the authority to make some changes.

I also had the practise peer review session the other day – this is a session where we work through the end of year staff ratings with other manager’s of our level, and get their feedback on people and advice. I was nervous going into the session but it was immensely helpful, and I’m now a lot more confident about doing the end of year reviews. Since we didn’t have any realy objectives before, I’m now setting up some for the next few months with everyone so we can use them as a yardstick so to speak.

I’m really enjoying the management role, and the new challenges it’s forcing me to face. My time management has improved simply by way of keeping better checklists and doing purely what’s on those lists – it’s come almost as a survival mechanism because there’s so much going on, but it helps a lot. Now to work on HR to get Higher Duties pay, and then apply for the Applications Development Manager role when the new IT manager is in. Onward…etc

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