What an exciting title, for me it conjures up a whole host of emotions including excitement for a new challenge, fear of the unknown, happiness for being given the opportunity to make a difference and sadness for leaving a group of people that I have come to know and treasure.
I am of course talking about moving on from one organisation to another. I have recently gone through this and taken a new role as a Training Manager for a firm in a division that has not had any training resource previously. This and the combination of my first child on its way have turned my happy and content world upside down!
But could I have said no, could I have stayed where I was and carried on in my previous role? Of course I could, but I would have been haunted. I would have been haunted by the little voice in my head that would have kept saying "what if". I can't stand that voice of regret the feeling that had I faced the challenge and the change and accepted it that things would have turned out better.
So of course I took the role and are things different? Are they better?..... that's difficult to say, I miss my colleagues and some aspects of the culture I worked in, but things are definitely not worse, just different.
I have been given a great opportunity to prove myself and really make a difference, not just to an organisation but also to a huge number of individuals hungry for development! That is hugely scary but also immensely exciting.
None of this would have been possible without my Level 5 qualification in Human Resource Development. Don't get me wrong I don't think they looked at my CV and decided right there that I was the person for the job (I don't even think they knew what the qualification was). But it gave the confidence to apply for the role in the first place and then to talk confidently about many subject that I didn't have a clue about 6 months before!
Change is a think we should all treasure after all how boring would life be if we lived in the house we grew up, never changed our jobs or role, never made more friends, eat the same food, went on holiday to the same place and never visited a new pub.......
Maybe next time however I might try to not get all of my major changes happening around the same time!!
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Thanks Alison!
Yes baby has arrived but four weeks earlier than expected! An amazing change and definatley one for the better.
Well done Richard and wishing you best of luck in your new life as training manager and dad! Has your new baby arrived yet?
Sorry for the delayed reply, but only just spotted your post.
I love change and have had many different jobs throughout my life and in different places. I am now so happy where I am and in what I am doing, that it will take some uprooting me I think, but I would never say never. I do suffer from itchy feet quite often! :)
Rachel,
Good luck with your change it's the best feeling in the world when you realise that change was for the best. The opportunities I have now to make a difference are huge and the challenge is so exciting I can't wait to get into work. Even increasing my commuting time by 190 mins a day is not dampening my spirits!
I hope you manage to find something you love!
Thanks for sharing Richard and congratulations on the new position and the new member of the family joining you shortly.
It takes guts to make change happen and too many people let that little voice raise doubts and people stay in their comfort zones because the little voice wins.
So pleased to hear the Level 5 Qualification has given you the confidence to make this move and I'm sure there will be no looking back....no regrets and as you say new opportunities to make a real difference.