Page 17 - December 2020 Voices

FROM THE DESK

We Got This!

Eldred Brown, DTM - Program Quality Director

It’s never easy to bury a parent, no matter how of success I value highly. I have the right people
long they’ve lived. I had to take some time in the right leadership roles.
away from all my other responsibilities to do Let’s start with Leanna and the work she did

just that after my mother died of COVID-19 in planning and coordinating all our presenters
mid-November. As soon as I heard the news from for TLI. There were a couple of little things I
my aunt, I emailed my three committee chairs, wanted to include in our TLI, but my mom’s
Leanna Lindquist, Gwendolyn Avington, and passing disrupted my participation in Leanna’s

Lyle Schellenberg, to let them know. I reassured planning so that we ended up not implementing
them that I trust them totally to do the work the little things I hoped to see. Even so, Leanna
assigned to them, but it was still reassuring to did a fabulous job planning our Amp It Up
me to read Leanna’s reply, “We got this. Take

whatever time you need.” That’s what I
wanted and needed to hear.
One of my goals as your Program
Quality Director was to appoint the

right people to lead the committees
under my watch, give them the
training and direction they need,
and let them do their thing. I want

to be active in helping them with
their work, but I don’t want
to control them. For me,
being able to trust the

leaders on my team
is of the utmost
importance.
Knowing that they

have the resources
to successfully do
their work while I’m
away and unable to help is a measure

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