Follow the Leader

I have so much to write about, but I don’t have time. I realized the other day that I’m slowly turning into more of a leader. Not the 24/7 type leader, but someone who can step up when leadership is lacking. I don’t want to be a manager, but it will probably happen some day. I’m happy where I am now, but my team will change over time. Eventually I will be the most senior member of the team (maybe not in age – I’m the youngest,) and my boss will want to retire. But I don’t want to think about that right now.

I’m in two classes this semester and both have major group projects. Groups need leaders and no one else seems to want to step up and lead. In one class, Project Management for IT, I went ahead and volunteered to be the liason between our groups and the other two groups because all the groups are working on a common project. It’s not unlike what I have to do at work anyway, and no one else seemed interested in the job. It’s more responsibility, but it’s not that hard to communicate with others for a project. It’s really pretty straightforward.

The group project in the other class is going to be more challenging because no one in my group is at all driven to actually do any work. I haven’t stepped up in that group, but I think I’ll have to soon. This happened in my online class a year or two ago. What the hell is so hard about group projects? True, I’ve always hated them, but there was never a shortage of leaders before. It’s a truly sad day when _I_ am the only leader in a group. Oh well, it’s good experience.