Making New Relationships

I have now been at my new job for six weeks. It feels like longer, in the good way. It really feels like "home". I am building new relationships, and, I think, some may become friendships.

I have begun a mentoring program with several of the employees and the results have been a little surprising. I am sending a chapter a week to five of the people at the branch (I work at a credit union). It's not too much to read and it is good to let the information soak in for a few days. Two of the people who are receiveing the chapters really needed these leadership/relationship skills, but I wasn't sure they would read them. The others, I believed, would read it and benefit even though they already exhibited the attributes in some way.

The book, by the way, is the 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader by John Maxwell. You should read it.

Only two of the people (the one's I didn't think would read them) are reading the chapters without extra prompting from me. They are soaking up the infomation and appear to be putting their new found traits into practice. I'm excited because one of the them is someone who seemed to be having a great deal of conflict with the entire group. That conflict is now greatly relieved. The other person who is devoted to reading the chapters each week has expressed her gratitude for the challenge and believes it will help her to ascend from her self proclaimed rut.

I am pleased and having a great time in my new position and still looking foward to how God will use me in this place.

Thank you, LORD, for people and places to serve.