All In A Manager's Day Job

Having someone new in your team and someone who just joined the company is a bit of a pain in the ass. You need to teach them about protocols. You need to work hard to be in the same page. You need to make sure they do by right because in the end, it will all be your responsibility. You need to make them listen. You make to make them understand why things have to be done a certain way or why things shouldn't be done in a certain why, or why things shouldn't be done at all. There will be times that you will not feel the need to share information, or to purposely withdraw it from them because perhaps they are not ready to handle it, or that you are bound to keep it confidential for the time being, or that you are tired of looking after every step this person takes. Having someone new in your team feels like raising a child. It's hard. It takes a lot of patience. It's like continuous waves of frustrations, pride, joy, pain - and the bottom line, it is tiring. And each of them has to be looked upon differently, because they have different skills, different characteristics, and different values that you inherit when you accept them in your arms. Now that makes it a lot more challenging. Because the main task assigned to a manager is to mold this person into the kind that will fit your team, your objectives and ultimately, the company. This is a daily responsibility that I pray to God I still have the strength to do.