I’m learning a lot this week about the similarities and differences of people work and task work.  My role has been shifting into a managerial and oversight role over a significant number of people, and this has required much more personal interaction and meeting than I have had in the past.

Here’s a few things I’ve learned in no particular order:

• I can say without a shadow of a doubt that people work is equally as exhausting, if not more so, than task work
• People work requires as much planning, and more care, than task work
• It’s much easier to feel a sense of accomplishment in task work
• Great ideas come from dialogue, but action requires tasks
• Delegating tasks works better when you’ve done effective people work
• It’s much easier to manage tasks than people
• Task work gives me time to process people

Sorry for the stream of consciousness post, but I’m fairly brain-dead…forgot to mention that people work is incredibly mentally taxing.

Anything I missed?