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Well, I've been making a real effort, and trying to share some of my technical knowledge. I think maybe now Im seeing a part of it was self protection. I held onto a lot of thie things I worked out, because it seemed to make me valuable in my job... Im starting to see (well, perhaps I could always see, but I am starting to do) that being able to work things out and pass them on is a greater skill than just having technical expertise.
One of my main strengths and weaknesses, is that Im actually very self aware, and I also have a tendancy to not act on my own perceptions. I think I see my own strengths and weaknesses fairly well, but I find changing my behaviour far harder than seeing what is wrong, and what is right.
I think a lot of my work problems also are based on confidence and being over eager to help others. I do a lot of things completely unrelated to my job, cos (not being arrogant) I know I can do them and other people who's job it is struggle - and I am not a very good teacher at the moment, I admit. I did this all the time when I was a "front line" member of staff - I used to work out all the really complex control accounts in the financial accounting dept, I used to work out the really bad messes the girls in AR made of the sales ledger when no one else could... but now I have a job that fill smy time completely, and I think I need to learn to stop doing things for people/customers just cos I can.. and let the people who's job it is do it. I mean, I now know a lot more about a lot of the IT I work with than our IT dept, and I fixed problems with prgrammes when they couldnt - and i thought it was a real strength, but in a way it makes the company weak, cos without me it makes everything harder cos I have horded and not shared knowledge.
Anyway, thanks for the advice from everyone... I've have been making a real conscious effort to lead things rather than do them, to throw problems at the other guys in the team and help them when they come to me rather than do the hard part of the job for them.. and its free'd up time for me to start looking at things that have a bigger impact on what the guys do, and do the things that they CANT do, rather than do the things for them that they can do.... and I think its going ok.
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"Do not tell lies, and do not do what you hate,
for all things are plain in the sight of Heaven. For nothing
hidden will not become manifest, and nothing covered will remain
without being uncovered."
The Gospel of Thomas
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