Career Mistakes We Make

Ada is an HR practitioner that was poached from one of the top manufacturing companies in the country.

She was excited upon negotiating and getting her preferred salary package.

She was considered a high flier with an impressive personal brand on Linkedin and her track records of introducing new initiatives stood her out in her former place of work.

Two weeks to her resumption, she went through her company’s external drive, copied and started amending templates, policies and forms to reflect the name of the new organization.

Upon resumption, she was introduced by the MD to her colleagues and the executive management team

She was so thankful she has a team to work with so she told them about herself, her expectations and objectives as well as how she would move.

Six weeks after, the whole office is complaining as things were getting distorted, so many changes were made without the head of units getting involved.

The straw that broke the camel’s back was when the Project Manager needed some items from the store but couldn’t get it as Ada had introduced some processes in the workflow. The processes would take care of some abuses but with the introduction, they had lost some time lag which would have made them access more funds for the building project.

She has also send some reviews of the handbook to the DMD but before approval could be gotten, she had started implementing her changes.

Office is becoming charged, the MD is being saddled with complaints most of the time and rather then being strategic, he is being saddled with what he thought he has brought Ada to handle.

At least 3 staff have tendered their resignations in the last one month and to make it worse, one of her team members has signified her intent to resign and also stated the reason for leaving, which was her boss inability to delegate to them.

Ada is unhappy, she felt under appreciated and wishes she had never left her previous place of work.

There are side talks whenever she enters any office and she feels that most conversations are centered around her.

She is telling her family and friends that she regrets joining the new organization. The place is toxic, backward and unfriendly. Not amenable to growth and that most of the changes were what got her promoted in her former place.

She is contemplating resigning and has asked for advice. What should we tell her to do and what do you think she has done wrong ?

kaywhy09:
First study the new work environment, and the changes has to be introduced bit by bit.
Why the rush?

IyaTola:
Quit na