After years of planning and preparation, today was a pretty momentous day for Regina Public Library. Having recently completed a major Program and Services Review which looked at all aspects of the organization – staffing, programming, facilities – today was the official implementation day for one of the key components of the new structure – a revamped staffing model and organizational chart.
As you can well imagine, there are a huge range of emotions over the changes that are happening – some staff are moving to new units or branches, others are moving their physical location – and that means that people are feeling excited, nervous, frustrated, sad and angry – often with all of these feeling swirling around at the same time.
My role at RPL is a fairly unique one in a number of different ways – for example, I'm the only in-scope employee in the HR department which is otherwise completely comprised of out-of-scope staff.
Another unique aspect of my job is the work that I actually get to do. The major responsibility of my position is all staff training and development which is fairly standard. But the other part is a bit more nebulous – “Organization Development” which you can read definitions of in various places but which for me, basically means that I have a pretty wide flexibility to do various things to help the organization successfully achieve its goals.
Sometimes that's helping a manager develop policy, sometimes that's talking to front-line staff to see what concerns they have about their day-to-day work. And sometimes, like today, it's taking 20 dozen doughnuts around to every single branch and unit in the organization as a small gesture of thanks to the staff for their dedication to RPL. Needless to say, I enjoy my job quite a bit! 
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