Meanderings of a Monkey Juggler

At work today.

Seems our boss is leaving to return to South Africa.  Bugger.  Personal reasons too.

She's an ace boss and has helped develop our service into something far better than it was when she arrived.

There are some problems here:

First it means that there are no real leaders in the team now.  The one remaining senior is busy with patients as well so is unable to do the boss's job properly.  Our manager (boss's boss) is also leading the community team, the OTs, the Speech and Language team and the podiatrists.  Just how much time can she take to concentrate on us?

Secondly the boss is a nice person and she's leaving.  It's rare to have a nice boss.  Are we getting another?  If we are then will they be any cop?

Are there any positives?  Well the cliche is "a problem is an opportunity". What can we think about?

How about pushing certain proposals myself and trying to badger to get certain things moved forwards?  Could be necessary and will help any potential management development.  I think this would be a good thing.  I just hope I can fit the time in amongst everything else going on.

We'll see.

Have fun.