We had a good team meeting last week, we did some team builder activities that I liked. So overall I like him. He also gave us an article to read about leadership, being a good but not too lenient boss and willing to have the hard conversations. I know about difficult conversations, I put myself on the line to have these conversations over the years.
Meanwhile I have been having issues since the beginning of the year. I have taken a lot of responsibility for my one mistake. I also am frustrated over how I was dealing with a lot of things like all my program materials sitting in boxes in the hallways of the school for 3 days, a difficult broken computer, 2 people quitting just before school started and a staff at risk of going to jail due to a DUI when this happened. I didn't get the feeling he understood what was happening but I gave him the benefit of the doubt.
And just last week there was an issue with a social services call my staff made on Monday night. I called him the next day, well within the time limit of the procedures. His answer to my text was that he didn't know what a social services call was. So I called him but he was in a training. I left a message and texted back to call me. The bottom line is that I was offered retraining because I was waiting for him to call back. I think that he got in trouble for that, however I really know how to make social services call paperwork, unfortunately. I have done it a lot. I just found out that he forgot to go cover at my colleagues site on Friday.
Now he is supposed to coach me on managing work load, making priorities. I just don't know what to say, it is a department thing to have supervisors coach us so we have to do it. However I think I could teach him in this area. I get a tremendous amount of work done, So maybe I can have him coach me in something else, something where I am not going to have a difficult time having a good attitude. Maybe he can help me learn some Spanish?