Over the past two weeks I have been visiting some of my immediate family in Scotland, including spending time with friends and relatives around this small country. As I haven’t been to Scotland for more than three years, in my eyes, some of these people have aged a lot, and far more than I think or hope I have aged in the same period. Some of the aging process has been in how they look or move about, but mostly it has been in their changes in attitudes to certain things around them. This may be a well known fact to many of you at Bethany who work more directly with our residents and their families than I generally do. It has however been a bit of a revelation to me and I hope that those recent first hand personal experiences will help to give me a better understanding of those working and living at Bethany.
There are also many things that we, as individuals from many different professional backgrounds, bring to our work in caring for our residents and tenants. These are the professional and technical skills that we all have learned and continue to practice as team members at Bethany and which are of utmost importance in creating the caring communities that we all want Bethany to be recognized for. As part of the performance management process, all of us will be having discussions with our supervisors about our own work and how our own individual performance of that work, through our own eyes and in the eyes of others, contributes to the lives of our residents and tenants. This is an important step in the process of self reflection and understanding that enables us to live our lives, both personally and at work, with greater satisfaction. My hope is that we all embrace our new performance management process with open minds and make it successful.
As always, I value your comments and suggestions.
Take care,
– Alasdair
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