Today I felt like I heard from God that I need to make my interactions with my managers this week all about them. Too often, my mental participation in my conversations with people, especially people at work, focuses almost entirely on what the conversation means for me, about me, and what I need to do as a result of it. I think this is a natural default for me, especially when I am in a new role like I am with the AVSCM job. But today God put in my heart that I need to really be listening to and focusing on each of my staff this week, and that he will be present and working there this week too. Of course, my first instinct was to question - great, but who is going to cover ME and MY NEEDS if I'm all about them? and I really felt like God said "I got you covered." Which would be great - he is much more likely to do a sufficient job keeping my shit together than I am anyway.

This all reminds me of a TAL I listened to a few days ago, where they were talking about how bad behaviors can ruin group dynamics, and the only demonstrable leadership technique that can counteract that is listening. If part of my prayers for this little management team this season is for us to be remarkably transformed by, say, Easter, then just listening to people and paying attention to who they are and what they need as we interact could be simultaneously one of the easiest things I've done in this role yet, and also one of the most revolutionary. I will keep you posted.