Life Cycles : Bidding Goodbye, Saying Hello
I have joined DSH in mid 2013, I am what one might
call a “fixture” of the organization, there is certainly some humor in being
identified as such and I welcome it. Through the years I had to learn to adjusting
to living with the life cycles of the organization which can be very taxing
emotionally and procedurally. Allow me to explain: the organization welcomes young
people with no prior experience and so for us, the core of the DSH
administration, we have to spend fair amount of time training the new comers
and getting to know them as people. Then following a year or maximum two, a
life-cycle, they are looking forward to discovering other worlds.
Saying goodbye for me is always a painful process;
I’ve just gotten used to working with the person, used to having a new support
and friend, used to navigating the cultural differences (as often we have
different nationalities in our staff and volunteers), and then the time is up
for them to leave. And once this happens, the work-load these people used to
do, gets re-distributed among us the core of DSH-Administration. There is a
strong solidarity among us at the core, and as we adjust to seeing our old
colleagues leave and manage our work-load, we look forward to hosting new
blood, to saying hello to newcomers.
There is also an opportunity for us in that as we do
each other’s job, we become versatile and can wear any hat in the organization,
this is a very strong point. Yet, we are all so much aware of the risk that
such turnover can have on the long term for the organization, but we also like
to think there is so much positive outcome in this. We welcome new, enthusiastic, and often very
passionate new staff. Surely, and as said before, there yet again the need for
time to adjusting, to teaching and to connecting to the new person, but it is
largely a positive experience as the youth keep the edge on the work we do as
we proudly serve vulnerable communities learn and prosper.
There is also an opportunity for us in that as we do
each other’s job, we become versatile and can wear any hat in the organization,
this is a very strong point. Yet, we are all so much aware of the risk that
such turnover can have on the long term for the organization, but we also like
to think there is so much positive outcome in this. We welcome new, enthusiastic, and often very
passionate new staff. Surely, and as said before, there yet again the need for
time to adjusting, to teaching and to connecting to the new person, but it is
largely a positive experience as the youth keep the edge on the work we do as
we proudly serve vulnerable communities learn and prosper.
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