I feel awfully sad for some people who think that key job positions entitle them to instant lordship and pharaoh pedestals. I spill pity over the same people who are just as deceived into thinking that just because they're given crowns of glory, they MUST (emphasis on that) be favored with immune royalty.
Thankfully, I never saw nor treated headship that way. I pay the highest esteem for individuals who have made it to the top, but with the praises never bloating up their heads. My deepest respects are for the handful pick of supervisors who do not cling arrogantly onto their titles but instead, continues to busy themselves up into becoming a team player.
The pride of being able to brag and exercise the power of control over your subordinates is of course, tempting. The thing is, if you're not careful enough and fall for this, you will end up having enemies and really mean detractors. Or worse, that very title that you so treasure greedily could be taken away from you. That's not a pretty mirror to face when that happens.
And if that happens (because it happens all the time), what would that experience make of you? Would you just sulk and wallow? Would you take it bitterly and stop there? Would you loathe and get back hard on your minions?
OR...
Would you treat that "unpleasant experience" as a heap of burning coals on your head? Would you instead focus on working hard on your people skills and start all over again to earn your co-workers' respect once more?
It's your card, Miss.
Over a month ago, I was given a huge responsibility at work. Our head librarian probably thought that I'm a big girl now and clever enough to handle a department of my own. I'd be a liar if I say I never wanted the post (AV librarian), but to be honest, handling a department in the university library of the University of the Philippines magnets a lot of pressure to a greenhorn supervisor. Nevertheless, I humbly took the job (as if I had a choice) and decided to work harmoniously with my team (that was my choice). No, I will never be an egotistical, bigheaded, demeaning boss. I will work real hard to earn my staff's respect.
Thankfully, I never saw nor treated headship that way. I pay the highest esteem for individuals who have made it to the top, but with the praises never bloating up their heads. My deepest respects are for the handful pick of supervisors who do not cling arrogantly onto their titles but instead, continues to busy themselves up into becoming a team player.
The pride of being able to brag and exercise the power of control over your subordinates is of course, tempting. The thing is, if you're not careful enough and fall for this, you will end up having enemies and really mean detractors. Or worse, that very title that you so treasure greedily could be taken away from you. That's not a pretty mirror to face when that happens.
And if that happens (because it happens all the time), what would that experience make of you? Would you just sulk and wallow? Would you take it bitterly and stop there? Would you loathe and get back hard on your minions?
OR...
Would you treat that "unpleasant experience" as a heap of burning coals on your head? Would you instead focus on working hard on your people skills and start all over again to earn your co-workers' respect once more?
It's your card, Miss.
Over a month ago, I was given a huge responsibility at work. Our head librarian probably thought that I'm a big girl now and clever enough to handle a department of my own. I'd be a liar if I say I never wanted the post (AV librarian), but to be honest, handling a department in the university library of the University of the Philippines magnets a lot of pressure to a greenhorn supervisor. Nevertheless, I humbly took the job (as if I had a choice) and decided to work harmoniously with my team (that was my choice). No, I will never be an egotistical, bigheaded, demeaning boss. I will work real hard to earn my staff's respect.
