Inch by Inch

I received the first three interview candidate names yesterday! Hooray!

Pulling the Levers

I wrote to Leah yesterday asking her to think strategically about whom she might like to interview for the project.

Just a Minute Mr. Postman

Leah distributed the request for candidate names Friday at 4:14 p.m.

This was a long weekend, so people disappeared early on Friday and most were not here Monday. This morning will be the first time many of them will see the request. If their Inboxes look anything like my Inbox this morning . . . well, we may have a long wait for responses!

I need to think about how I can shake loose some of those candidates if they don't appear magically in my mailbox by COB tomorrow.

The Best Laid Plans

We were ready to send the message to the board. At the last minute, Leah decided (without my input) it wasn't the right timing - there were too many other messages going to the board and they hadn't reacted to other things they were supposed to be doing.

She said she would bring up identifying the interview candidates during the board meeting Friday. I edited the guidelines and forwarded them to her with a new deadline of February 22.

Cross your fingers that the message gets out and the board reacts.

The Ball is in Both Courts

I sent two items to Leah for her review last night. One is the guidelines for selecting interview candidates. This is to be used by the board members in determining who to interview. It also provides some very simple bulletized instructions for emailing the names of the candidates to me for compilation, etc.

The second item is a list of suggested appreciative topics. I had hoped that Leah would work directly with me to develop this particular list. While that hasn't happened, I've now provided her a short list of topics with some thoughts about what kinds of data and stories might come from those topics. At the very least I've given her some choices.

I've scheduled a 30-minute call with her Tuesday so that we can review what I've sent to her.

If all goes well, I will start building the interview protocol tonight. Even though we haven't firmed up the topic, I can develop a scaffold for the inquiry. It will be a small step forward to have an outline, but I'm trying to learn to build these small progressive steps into projects. This inability to move forward until everything is in place has kept me from making progress on large projects in the past. This is a skill I need to build.

Back in the Game, Sort Of

This was a bad work week for the IFP (not to mention Tina). Leah and I played phone and email tag all week and never did actually connect.

I will spend this weekend writing up all of the materials I need to deliver for the Cultural Exchange, and I will deliver them Monday morning.

The Global Gallery director contacted me, too. I had a short email volley with her about choosing another project.