What I've been working on

Today is the day… the day my department “flipped the switch” on my new streamlined spreadsheet. I’m having a blast today fielding questions and seeing the last couple months of work actually being used by the department. I can sometimes have trouble getting others to buy into changing the way they do things. It’s been said “Change is much easier when it’s done by you than when it is done to you.” I wholeheartedly agree. It’s also been said that when it comes to change, people fall in a statistical bell curve with 3% saboteurs of change and 3% change drivers, 17% resistant to change and 17% liking change, 30% don’t like change but can be convinced, and 30% like change but need to see the benefit in it. I’m on the 3% change driver section. Since I work in finance with a bunch of analyst type people, they all need to take time to digest and analyze the change before they buy in (they’re all on the 30% don’t like change side). This can be frustrating at times.

So today is a good day. They’ve flipped the switch and I’m thriving off answering questions and fixing little issues that are getting found by all the analyzer types.

The big plus is that I think I may have shaved off 2-4 hours of the entire department’s financial close time.