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Back to Work... Again

Colin Campbell
by Colin Campbell on 06/02/18 18:00

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Here I am back to work after 6 and a half weeks of ‘sabbatical’.

This year was different.

I worked quite a lot in the 6 and a half weeks as was noticed more this time by my wife. I never worked on anything related to the practice as it stands, and I never had much or any contact from the practice at all; but I did work on ‘projects’. I had been cryptic over time in these pages about things that are coming up and please forgive me for being cryptic again but we have been working on some extraordinary things, the fruits of our labour will become visible sometime in the middle of the year. They will become visible in the biggest way.

I worked at home on the sofa with my dog where I had meetings. I had the privilege to have meetings with some extraordinary people and all without any significant time restriction.

I made new friends in relation to work and re kindled relationships with people that have become stagnant or started to decrease and reduce.

I went to the cinema 6 times (the best one by a mile was Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri)

I took my son to school and took my girls to their horses. I took the pressure off my wife and got out from under her feet.

I never did anything special, I never went anywhere dramatic, but at the end of it all I met Hayley, my practice manageress and ultimately my managing director and we sat one Thursday afternoon and drank tea and coffee and went over what was going on with the practice.

I explained to Hayley what had happened when I started my Level 7 Leadership course at Nottingham Business School in January and I had been ‘found out’ through a questionnaire that I was a terrible delegator.

This had confused me a great deal because I didn’t think you would be able to take 6 and a half weeks off work without being able to delegate things.

Our coach and presenter explained to me that the questionnaire represented how I acted while I was at work and the fact that I had managed to manufacture time off work didn’t mean I was able to delegate while I was there.

I thought about this a lot. At first it felt like an insult and then over time it felt like an opportunity.

I had an open and honest discussion with Hayley over my dining room table and recounted the story from Greg Normans autobiography where he discusses with his finance director the fact that every time he enters the office he creates 3 months of irrelevant work for the team.

I quietly asked Hayley if I was the same, the quiet answer was as loud as a clanging bell in my head.   

For someone, who has now for the second time in his career, been behaviourally classified as a starter and unable to be a finisher, it’s our joy to start down a new road.

I need to leave them be and let them do their work because god knows they’re good enough for that.

I need to work on this bright shiny thing over here because working on bright shiny things and coming up with 100’s of ideas and only implanting 1 is exactly what I do.

 

Blog post number: 1545

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