Vision: September 2008 Archives
During my time with YFC in North Staffs we experienced a whole load of "wilderness" time, especially around the transition from one director to another. It seemed to last forever, not really knowing what direction we were headed, but being aware that things were definately going through a change process but not knowing exactly what the change would be, or where it would take us as an organisation.
So starting in this new role at Cov YFC, I've always known there would be a wilderness time in the whole transition process, and although I decided to ask loads of "why" questions about the organisation whilst letting "business" happen as usual (as possible, anyway), I also decided that the "wilderness" needed to be as comfortable and SHORT as possible.
However, just over a month into the role, I'm starting to see similar patterns emerging as happened in North Staffs.
I know that I'm asking a lot of questions about the place, (yet it seems maybe not enough), but there seem to be a certain lack in people with answers. Don't get me wrong - the team, the exec, the people I've met around cov, they're all great, and I absolutely love the role (there really is so much potential and eagerness in people for God to do some cool things), so I guess it must come down to communication.
The team need to know what I'm here for (I think they do, but want to get out of this wilderness thing - or maybe just get used to things being "not the same") and more importantly, I probably need to find out exactly what the exec think I'm here for, cos if there are crossed wires on any of that core stuff, then problems may well be in the near future.
Anyway, hopefully a few meetings tomorrow will shed a bit more light on this whole area.
UNITY has to be the top priority - but unity requires a certain amount of shared sense of purpose.
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