about her future career goals, her interest in moving into leadership or, a management position, and the benefits and challenges of a social work administrator’s role. This writer has been a manager and a leader in various other workplaces. She has experienced the effect of a manager that had little to no management training. The uncomfortable feeling or belief that someone could take something away because whatever he or she was asking could not be feasibly done. This writer will not mange her subordinates in this manner.GoalsThis writer would hope to someday move into a leadership role within the human service field. Her future role within the human service field is chocked full of opportunities. Her future goals are abundant and many of these goals will be completed within this year. However, new goals are always emerging and this year is half-way over with, so it is likely that by January 1st, 2021, there will be a bigger agenda. This year she will complete her CAC II (certification and hours for drug addiction) and the classes will be completed for the License Addiction Counseling. In three years, these hours will be completed. This year she will take the master’s addiction exam and the clinical boards exam for the license clinical social work. She hopes to become certified to become an Equine therapist.Successful transitions from specialist to a generalistAs stated before, this writer works by checking off the tasks list and building relationships. Therefore, setting and implementing agendas like taking responsibility, building, and using organizational structures, thinking strategically, and engaging in innovative problem-solving (Gothard, Carnochan, Regan, Samples, & Austin (2012). Also, handling relationships like dealing with people over whom you have no authority, negotiating political situations, understanding other perspectives, dealing with conflict, directing-motivating-evaluating-developing subordinates, and managing up to senior management (Gothard et al.,2012). Finally, demonstrating that this writer utilizes the core values rooted in self-awareness.The challengesThis writer will face many challenges when working with others in the community. However, she has the experience because she has been a part of several community projects. She will have to develop her administration skills and strategic plans for the organization and the departments she heads.ConclusionThis writer’s future goals are abundant and to strengthen her abilities and therapeutic skills, it involves more training from accredited institutions. This writer hopes someday to be a leader for an organization within the human services field. The benefits of working with people is that people are usually task-driven. People want to achieve great things, and this writer is no different, making a difference one person at a time.Brenda ReferencesGothard, S., Carnochan, S., Regan, K., Samples, M., & Austin, M. J. (2012). Becoming a manager in nonprofit human service organizations: Making the transition from specialist to generalist. Mack Center on Nonprofit and Public Sector Management in the Human Services. School of Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley.
