Management Training

Last year, while I was undergoing my “awakening” (as I like to call it), I was struggling to decide if I would accept my current work, change my expectation of it, or leave and start something new. I’d gotten complacent and I let the “comfortable” settle in, so in an effort to change that, I started to say yes and volunteer to everything that came my way.

Management training at my current job was one of the things that I signed up for because it made me feel uncomfortable and it was time for a change in the company I work for. I wanted to make it better, I wanted to make our managers and supervisors better leaders so that we could do more, create more, hire more, and grow stronger.

I started rewriting our managers book, and as I researched and focused my time into making our management training better I began to realize what my purpose and potential could truly be.

I had started as a receptionist at the front desk at our corporate office and slowly worked my way up the company. As I did, I had good managers, and I had terrible managers. I promised myself that I would do better than that when I became a manager, that I wouldn’t treat people this way and I would try to make a difference when I had the chance.

I slowly worked my way up to the position that I have now. A position that can teach and train our future managers and supervisors to be better and treat people better. Through my journey through management I have come to learn that becoming a good manager is a lot of trial and error, evaluating the situation, learning how to improve and then going at it again.

Leadership is not easy and meeting with my supervisors and managers is the most time consuming part of my day, but it’s also the part that brings me the most joy. I am making a difference in our company with how we work and manage, and I am also making an impact in their personal lives as well.

Our first cycle of the year for managers training is underway and for the first time I taught a class alone. It was exhilarating to talk about something I felt passionate about. This is what I love, this is what I was made for. Helping others to become a better versions of themselves, to discover who they are, what they want out of life, and to inspire those in their own life to also discover who they are and what they want out of life.

One day I will create my own managers training for small businesses but today, today, I’ll help change my little world one day at a time. I might not be exactly where I want to be, but I know I will eventually get there and I know that if I keep believing, if I keep trying to make a difference that change is inevitable.

Every training I teach will be better than the last and each one will teach me new things about people and myself.

Every day that I accomplish being the best version of myself is a day that I will celebrate. As long as I keep failing forward, keep doing my best to be the change that I want to see in the world I know I will succeed.

A.A.