Mistakes happen

This week was a very good week for me to learn from my own mistakes.  As each day passes in my new position I learn how not to do things.  I think that in most cases as long as you learn from your mistakes then it is a lesson well learned.  Now I'm not saying that all I have done is make mistakes, but I feel that this week I was really able to see my mistakes for myself before someone pointed them out to me.  Last night was a good example.  This week was a long week for me, I put in two 13 hour days followed by two 12 hour days, so by the end of last night I was pretty exhausted.  I decided to leave at 10pm last night (as scheduled) but I did not leave my staff prepared to do their job and because of this I had a mess to clean up this morning.  I left my newer bartender alone to close up the bar without properly training him on closing the bar and so this morning I got a phone call from my day bartender that he could not find anything.  It was a big hassle and my day bartender did not have the tools that he needed to get his job done.  After the phone call I realized that I did not set my staff up for success, and that I should have stayed until llpm to make sure that everything was fine.  This wasn't the biggest mistake in the world, but it really inconvienced everyone who was involved. 

As I've noted before I am learning new things about myself and my management skills everyday, but this morning I realized that I have a long way to go.  I want to be a good manager and I want to be able to do my job confidently, but I also realize now that you don't just wake up one morning and find that you are a great manager; it takes A LOT of work!! I believe that even though I feel like I am stumbling through the darkness somedays that I have many great managers at my property that I can look up to and learn from.  There is a small light at the end of the tunnel, and I'm hoping that it will get bigger as time progresses. 

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