Weeknote 5: on singing behind the beat

I had two classic ‘behind the beat‘ moments this week. The first involved taking the reigns in relation to a runaway situation. The second involved seeing something happen and letting it happen (temporarily). My two Deputy Directors were on leave at the same time for a few days so that temporarily exposed me and other Heads of to the complexities of their work and removed some of the direction we’d normally be given. This is not usually a problem but something escalated and we spent some time working through what we could do as a team. This doesn’t normally happen as we co-work with DDs in real time most days. It felt like we time traveled to pre-pandemic times where you had time between video calls and could reflect and regroup about something multiple times. We spend quite a few hours co-working and mulling over a leadership response. I’m happy with what we came up with as a group because we got to really work something out deeply. A rare treat. I feel like I know (and appreciate)…