Popular Post Homer Posted January 1, 2016 Popular Post Share Posted January 1, 2016 Hello Everyone, First, I would like to apologize for my absence for the last 4 months and I want to thank all of HG Leadership that have held things together during my impromptu leave of absence. Long story short, I took on some new extracurricular responsibilities at my University as well as working at a local startup web/mobile development company getting involved in the investment & executive networking scene in my County, which unexpectedly overcame my time able to be on HG, while I was also taking classes at my University. Over the summer I was elected the Student Government President of the Computer Science department (consisting of 2,200 students) at my University and I had a lot of pressure on me to deliver some annual legacy projects, and the time commitment that was required of me--I was unprepared for, which is why I kinda disappeared on HG the last few months mainly due to the Student Council not being left in the best situation the prior year, so I also had to teach a lot of my newly elected board members (most were very new to Council and this was their first leadership position). I ended up experiencing my first burnout ever (mental and physical exhaustion...stressing myself out); it was not enjoyable getting 2-0 hours of sleep for many weeks at the beginning of my Fall Quarter, and it took a toll on my health, however I had some meaningful lessons learned regarding the importance of utilizing your team to be able to spread out my workload (including giving access). Over the last few months recovering from being stressed out, I eventually got things on track and excelled with my new responsibilities, time management, and I've learned a lot and I don't regret it one bit---Its made me stronger as a person and opened my perspective regarding improving operations at HG. We operate a lot like a student club or organization, and there are many similarities between a "Student Council of a University school department" and "HG Council." HG was founded on platforms (our website and server access) that did not facilitate the absence or myself--as I was always online daily (for the last 10 years) and I've always had the mentality of "I'll just do it" while not learning the importance of delegating trusted access to others, and this mentality set me up for problems when my time became very limited as Fall quarter began. With that being said, my plans going forward--learning from my mistakes, is to incorporate a new foundation for HG Leadership and HG as a whole (probably will result in a website overhaul) to align us, that will fix all issues related to "rights to certain access" for respective leadership positions (which has been the most frustrating thing to date--that's resulted in staff respectfully resigning their positions as they become fed up with being unable to act upon what is expected of them; impairment of needed tools for their position) to be able to prosper with or without me, since my current course of career goals is unpredictable with my high ambitions and new opportunities are happening every day that I'm not sure where the future will take me as I work towards applying for grad school. I promise that things will improve for the better with the new year as we close in on Phase 2 of my plans for restructuring leadership for what's best for HG. Starting this Spring, for the first time ever, we will have HG Executive Elections for many new positions in the new HG Council's Board, with the enactment of our new HG Council Official Constitution (still under construction) that is soon to be in effect, which I'll share the draft now with everyone: HG Council Official Constitution (Draft) I wish everyone a Happy New Year and I look forward to bringing many new and exciting opportunities to HG for 2016! With Best Wishes, Homer Executive Council 2016 23 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Love Posted January 1, 2016 Share Posted January 1, 2016 This is amazingly innovative. What a big step for you and all of us in the community. I can't waot to see what this new HG will look like and I'm glad to be a part of what will be for sure a step for the better good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(evko)KingSlayer Posted January 1, 2016 Share Posted January 1, 2016 This is what I like to see. <3 Homer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkmoonstalker Posted January 1, 2016 Share Posted January 1, 2016 Welcome back! Its good to see u! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giants745 Posted January 1, 2016 Share Posted January 1, 2016 Wow, can't wait. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FoxHound Posted January 1, 2016 Share Posted January 1, 2016 Homer made a post where he doesnt sound like a robot and its what we all wanted to hear...wow. Good for you guys, many problems are being addressed someone should make a constitution discussion thread and everyone should read the constitution... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaggy Rogers Posted January 1, 2016 Share Posted January 1, 2016 This all looks really good. Seems like I picked a good time to join back up with the community. Can't wait to see where this goes. P.S. Congrats on your IRL stuff Homer, even if it did almost kill you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheAtrocity Posted January 1, 2016 Share Posted January 1, 2016 I hope this proves to be a fruitful adventure, upgrades are only upgrades but people don't wish to change once they are in leadership which results to infighting inside leadership as well as between the whole of our important community members and a general stall of progress that we've all be waiting for. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KarmaOfPain Posted January 1, 2016 Share Posted January 1, 2016 Well that was fast lol, sounds good Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suicide Posted January 1, 2016 Share Posted January 1, 2016 good to see, hopefully things continue down the right path Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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jonmac5037 Posted January 1, 2016 Share Posted January 1, 2016 sounds awesome 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dictator Posted January 1, 2016 Share Posted January 1, 2016 Sounds good welcome back Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aerith Posted January 1, 2016 Share Posted January 1, 2016 feels like christmas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
essence Posted January 1, 2016 Share Posted January 1, 2016 Nice. Congrats on developing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosmo Posted January 1, 2016 Share Posted January 1, 2016 I still propose an official porchdick position and would like to nominate myself this sounds exciting boss. Looking forward to seeing what the future holds with us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burnt Posted January 1, 2016 Share Posted January 1, 2016 We will see Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arezk Posted January 1, 2016 Share Posted January 1, 2016 (edited) 2016 just got interesting, looking forward for the future of HG! Edited January 1, 2016 by Arezk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joKer Posted January 1, 2016 Share Posted January 1, 2016 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MizzMadelyne Posted January 2, 2016 Share Posted January 2, 2016 Congrats on everything! And keep chasing your dreams! Thanks for all that you do for HG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Icon Posted January 2, 2016 Share Posted January 2, 2016 http://i.imgur.com/ygztt3h.gif 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunbeh Posted January 2, 2016 Share Posted January 2, 2016 Super interesting, good to know you're being awfully successful outside of HG. It's the real life that matters, and it's HG that brings you back Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tinkerbell Posted January 2, 2016 Share Posted January 2, 2016 Cant Wait, Good To Hear From You Homer <3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homer Posted January 4, 2016 Author Share Posted January 4, 2016 Hey everyone, I hope to clear up some more questions and attach a visual of the idea I have so far for the new structure. As you can see there is a great deal of expansion to Council and new Committee additions. These are all areas of great importance that I plan to guide us to. Phase 2 of getting HG back on track and addressing multiple issues among leadership involves the restructure and expansion of upper-management, that means Council and Community Directors. All divisional operations and structure of Division Leaders and lower, will not really be effected as we undergo the transition of Phase 2. Last year, Phase 1, was when we addressed the issues in lower-management, which has worked out pretty well. Our focus now is on the upper-management structure, which has been a great bottleneck to our operations and impairing lower-management. I myself have been needing help at the operations level, and by expanding and aligning a new Council, we will be able to grow HG this year in the right direction. I have had several leadership ask to be able to help contribute to the creation of Constitution, and the new positions that will expand Council. I would like to open the document for Suggestions. In doing so, I have allowed all leadership to be able to make suggestions to the document, which requires logging in to the document with their HG Email to make live suggestions, which will be approved upon review from myself and upper-management. We will also start developing the General By Laws at the bottom of the document, which is where all the processes, roles, and rights for positions will be documented. Some have asked me where current Council and Community Directors will go with this transitions. Before the announcement of these plans, Council met often to develop many solutions to upper-management problems and as well agreed that Council will be grandfathered into the new invite only Advisory Board, with the option to be grandfathered into one of the new active Council positions if they are able to fulfill its requirements (that we are developing). The same is happening for Community Directors, we are discussing with each person individually to place them into the best position. There is a lot more for me to explain and finish writing up in the document regarding what the Advisory Board is and will assist doing, where many long-standing inactive veterans to leadership will reside. I'll explain more, next time. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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