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Title: Multiple Hat Survival Guide


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Multiple Hat Survival Guide
  • Karen Langley, SAIC
  • Georgia Oracle Users Group
  • May 10, 2007

2
Agenda
  • Background
  • How many hats do you ear?
  • Levels of Leadership
  • Who am I?
  • What hats do I wear?
  • How did I get so many hats?
  • How to Survive
  • Tips to Survive

3
Some Background
  • Education Upstate NY
  • 1980 BA Math Siena College
  • 1982 MS Computer Science Union College
  • Practical Education Programmer with KAPL,
    started with Oracle6 then moved south and on to
    Oracle7 and beyond!
  • Employed by SAIC

4
How many hats to you wear?
  • Personal
  • Parent
  • Spouse
  • Son/Daughter
  • Sibling
  • PTA Volunteer
  • Band Parent
  • Soccer Coach
  • Member of Choir

5
How many hats to you wear?
  • Business
  • Employee
  • Manager
  • Co-worker
  • Customer
  • Provider

6
Levels of Hats and Leadership
7
Levels of Hats and Leadership
  • People at the Top
  • People in the Middle
  • People at the Bottom

8
People at the Bottom
  • Not a bad place to be
  • Limited number of tasks responsibilities
  • Can be physically or mentally challenging
  • May become an expert in the task

9
People at the Top
  • Fewer hats but responsible for success/failure of
    organization
  • Can choose what to do
  • Determine priorities
  • Focus on Strengths
  • Direct time/energy on greatest return
  • Delegate or dismiss everything else

10
People in the Middle
  • Perform tasks with knowledge beyond personal
    experience
  • Deal with multiple priorities that change
  • Time resources often limited
  • Demands/expectations from all sides
  • Mgmt, Followers, Customers, Vendors

11
Who am I?
12
Who am I?
  • Work for SAIC Science Applications
    International Corporation - gt40K employees
    worldwide
  • IT Program Manager for DOE customer in Oak Ridge
  • Result of outsource gt8 yrs ago
  • Now subcontractor to small business

13
Who am I?
  • Unix and Database Support Teams Manager
  • East TN Oracle Users Group President
  • Formerly on IOUG Board of Directors

14
What Hats do I Wear?
15
What Hats do I Wear?
16
What Hats do I Wear?
  • Member of Division Senior Leadership Team
  • Opportunities to work on proposals
  • Division Office Space Coordinator
  • Office space needs for various contracts

17
What Hats do I Wear?
  • IT Program Manager for DOE
  • Customer Interface
  • Regular meetings with Customer Mgmt
  • Functional Responsibility
  • Get the work done
  • Financial Responsibility
  • Plan the hours worked by whom
  • Profitable program

18
What Hats do I Wear?
  • Direct manager for Database and Unix staff
    supporting DOE and other customers including
    internal systems
  • Some technical support particularly from
    historical perspective (why did what when)

19
What Hats do I Wear?
  • ETOUG
  • President
  • IOUG
  • Member since 1996
  • Finance Committee
  • 2007 Board of Directors Election Committee Chair
  • Chocolate Provider

20
How Did I Get so Many Hats?
21
How did I get so many hats?
  • Career Path
  • Programmer
  • DBA
  • Lead DBA
  • Manager of one, then many, then lots!
  • Did a good job at one piece of the task and
    picked up the whole task!

22
How did I get so many hats?
  • Volunteered
  • Drafted
  • Willing to be flexible
  • Like the challenge and variety of assignments

23
So if you wear multiple hats.How do you Survive?

24
How to Survive
  • Understand the responsibility of each hat
  • Wear the right hat at the right time

25
How to Survive
  • Be yourself in all hats
  • Dont neglect any hat

26
Practical Tips to Survive Multiple Hats

27
Survival Tips
  • Understand the Priorities
  • Especially the hot ones
  • Make Good Use of your time
  • Delegate
  • Do little things now and then forget them

28
Survival Tips
  • Just Say No!
  • Be organized
  • Keep your desk clean (dont look at mine!)
  • Planner if that is your style

29
Survival Tips
  • Have a good team working for you
  • Managers
  • Staff
  • Technical
  • Administrative
  • Be Flexible

30
Survival Tips
  • Take time out for yourself
  • Have a positive attitude
  • Enjoy the challenge

31
The Key to Successfully Navigate the Multi-Hat
Challenge
  • Knowing what hat to put on and then enjoying the
    challenge.
  • - John C. Maxwell, The 360 Leader

32
Resources
  • The 360 Leader by John C. Maxwell
  • Top 7 Tips for Managing Multiple Projects by
    Kevin Kearns from Top7Business.Com
  • Personal Experience!

33
Questions or Comments?
  • Multiple Hat Survival Guide
  • Karen Langley
  • langleyk_at_saic.com
  • 865-425-5506
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