I had an interview today and went straight from there to an improvement plan meeting, eek.
The interview went well. It was for a before and after director job that is full time and year round. It is pretty far and I would have to do mornings all the time, still I have my lease ending so I can look at moving closer since I am moving anyway. I expected one question, why are you leaving? And why do you want this job (when I already do this job and more in my current role). I answered that my job was growing and changing, there is a lot more paperwork and administrative work. I can expect that will continue and I want to shift back more directly to kids and high quality programming. They seemed to understand that and see it as genuine, which it is, and that helps since they gave me a look that I was overqualified or at least doing a bigger job right now.
Then I went directly to my improvement meeting, we are going to meet EVERY WEEK, oh the joy. Well in one week of copying him in on every single email has already made a difference, he has a better idea of what I do all the time. At the end of the meeting I pointed out that I didn't have the future meetings on my calendar, and then helped him create new meetings that actually invited me this time. Sigh. I asked that we put in something I can work towards that I want to do and is positive to motivate me on my plan. A very small dose of anxiety meds really help me work with him. BTW it is pretty obvious as we get into the details of the plan that I made ONE mistake, and now it will all be documented.
AND I got a nice scholarship to attend a weekend training on connecting through conflict, a facilitation training. I am really looking forward to it, and I didn't schedule before I asked permission.