Deborah Boyd

What people like and admire about me

• Great sense of humour
• Adaptable
• Flexible
• If I don’t know something I will find out
• Very good at maintaining confidentiality

What is important to me as a Team Leader

• Feeling that I am doing a good job and making a difference in people’s lives
• Having time to think through issues and make robust plans
• I am a people person who enjoys communicating and learning about others
• Lists and reminders so I stay on top of things
• Having a laugh
• Being around positive and motivated people
• Having a friendly and happy workplace
• Sharing my knowledge and experiences with others – I like to be solution focussed
• Having time to talk to people and hear their stories, so I can understand where they come from and where they want their lives to go
• Honesty – Trusting people to do what they say they will
• Life, work balance

How best to support me as a Team Leader

• I need to download/vent sometimes, it’s important for me to have people to talk things through with
• I sometime need reminders as I can get busy and forget – I don’t mind
• I like things planned and organised but I can be flexible too
• I like a reasonably quiet workplace but I don’t mind interruptions
• If I ask for something to be done I get very disappointed if it isn’t
• Usually I work through the big things first so other things do get put down the list
• Please understand that I can get side tracked by work issues – I don’t mind if I think I’m being helpful and I will get back on track
• I find it difficult to deal with people who lack motivation or who are always down –they drain me
• Cups of tea