One key to long term success is to know and understand when it is time to walk away from a responsibility, a task or a project when you have done all you can and can't do anymore. This year I have co-ordinated a qualification (which is made up of 8 papers taught over two semesters) as well as keep on with my day job as school administration manager.
Now I am quite aware that next year the qualification needs someone better than me to take it to the next level. Honestly, I don't have any issue with that at all. In fact the project has launched me on a huge learning ride and has totally changed the way i see both my teams and my own approach to how we do our jobs.
So with that in mind here are a few things I will do and recommend you should do if you reach the same point -
- Give it over to someone better. If it is your choice to pick who to hand the project over to then pick someone who is better than you are in the specific areas that the project needs work done in.
- Have a transition plan. Stopping dead in your tracks and wallking away without doing a clean handover is detrimental to all the work you have done.
- Continue to support your successor however you can.
My key skill is getting projects up off the ground and having the ability to get the ball rolling. Now that we have accomplished that fact now it's time to hand over the running to someone else.
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