job when I went to work for the (This was a huge culture change for me, to work with agency name).
(and being the senior female. I also had a pretty employees) for one thing, mostly male (employees–for )
me, I went to a pretty large staff, a staff of about 60 people from what I had before, which was a staff of
maybe 10. So that was kind of an awesome experience, and I had different people with different
skills sets and desires on work schedules. You get the in-fighting and having to deal with them on their
emotions/their professional abilities at the same time. I also had my own emotional intelligence
because I felt very stdoing, and I was the right person for the job, but I rongly that I knew what I was
had these I had these (– I don’t mean this to be disrespectful, but employees) men who were just waiting
for me to fail. And so I was always having to kind of keep myself in check overall. And so I became in
that scenario from an emotional perspective a little more stoic than maybe I would have been in a
different job. And what I learned from that job is slightly different on change: that before I learned
that change was that change is really hard. Truly moving into a good; what I learned in this job is
leadership position versus a managerial position is really difficult. And if you don’t have someone kind
of there to guide you and shepherd you, you’re on that island alone. So that was kind of my experience
there in that regard.
Researcher: from an emotional intelligence standpoint, what was difficult about the leadership
position?
A4: I think that the most difficult thing for me was well, a couple of aspects. One, that I have this –
desire to create this high-functioning staff and bring
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