Wednesday April 7th
Three days when the shiny new life lost its lustre and I got a little pissed off with the whole GTP thing.
Nothing major - I have managed to leave my career, move my family back to the UK, buy a house, get settled and tackle pretty much everything in front of me without faltering. My potential nemesis was the dreaded GTP assignment - 4000 paltry words on a subject of my choice with a 6 month deadline. How hard can that be?
It very nearly did for me as, amazingly, I left it until the week of the deadline. It played to all my weaknesses - preparation, in depth research, time management, and I tried to cram it all into 3 days of my holiday which built up a huge level of resentment in me, Mrs N, the kids and probably the cat. I was irritable, irrational, self-pitying for 3 days...all for 4000 words.
I chose to write about internal school websites and the role they can play in enhancing independent learning. It is actually an interesting subject...for a casual read and debate over a pint. The reality is that I haven't done anything like this since university. As I quipped to my mentor, I would get my PA or team to write anything like this in my old life!
I got it done in the end (I was counting every word in the bottom right hand corner) but it was definitely not my finest moment and the resentment still burns deep inside - resentment that I had to do it at all (isn't it hard enough to be thrown in teaching from Day 1?), resentment that I gave up half my holiday worrying about it and 3 days writing it) and resentment that it was so bad.
Day 355 - Resignation Notes....
Tuesday April 6th
I was just clearing through some old papers and found the notes I used to tell my boss I was leaving.....I still can't quite believe I actually planned this whole thing in meticulous detail and it has (so far) gone pretty much according to plan. (All Mrs. N's idea...my idea was to dramatically walk out after a good old rant and rave.)
I was just clearing through some old papers and found the notes I used to tell my boss I was leaving.....I still can't quite believe I actually planned this whole thing in meticulous detail and it has (so far) gone pretty much according to plan. (All Mrs. N's idea...my idea was to dramatically walk out after a good old rant and rave.)
- Leaving Diageo marketing to pursue career in teaching.
- Moving family back to the UK.
- Very proud of my 15 years at Diageo and the opportunities afforded to me.
- Intention is to work through to June 30th and give Diageo as much time as possible to appoint my replacement
- Absolute intention is to be fully committed to performance however understand if you want to move quicker and happy to discuss
- This is a big move for me and financially is a big change. Given that, I would like to discuss any options to help with family security - deferred comp (bonus bank) what I've earned; moving back
- If there are any plans between now and June 30th for restructuring, to be part of that in the knowledge that it may protect another individual who truly wants to remain here.
- Communication - up to you but given how much needs to be planned schools/house/career prefer to be upfront v. leaking
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