Monday, 28 February

The new Development Director started today. She's awesome. I went into her office to introduce myself, offer a helping technical support hand and, before I knew it, I was talking about the Dev Dept's immediate needs for organisation and a centralised database to keep track of foundation deadlines and major contribution letters of gratitude, etc. She listened to my concerns and had suggestions of her own and, altogether, I thought the conversation was very productive. We (the Grant Writer, CEO and I) have all discussed informally our wishes for the new Director, what we hope she can do, what we need her to do, etc. Our Dept (nay, our organisation) has been starving for a Director for quite some time now; waiting for someone to come on-board and provide some direction and make the executive decisions that the CEO has been too preoccupied with other tasks to handle (as well he should be). I don't want to be too forward with her, but I think it's a good idea that we all sit down together and get a feel for where we are versus where we want to be and how we want to get there. Ah, balance. Learning it is tricky.

I only worked until lunch today.