Completing final preparation for my launch of the leadership survey on Monday has been far more time consuming than anticipated!! I spent a good part of the week following up with a few organizations on missing information and then testing some administrative functionality on the leadership tool.
Today I encountered several issues with version control of spreadsheets and also just discovered that the leadership tool does not import the leader information in the way that I have formatted it. This is despite the fact that I am following the instructions that I have been given and it worked earlier this week when I did a small sample test –argh!! So now I am heading home for some dinner and reformatting!! Hopefully it will not take too long.
I had a good chat with my supervisor this week. Our focus was to walk through my immediate next steps and plans for preliminary data analysis. As always, there was the immediate benefit that arises from articulating what you are planning to someone else –I find it makes me more clear and ware of gaps in my thinking and process! She also provided good advice on my data analysis plans and recommended simplifying my initial plans. For example, instead of worrying about how I am going to learn PLS, focusing on conducting simple regressions first and see what the results are. This sound pretty obvious now, but I have been thinking about the more sophisticated analysis that I think is coming and stressing myself out! It is good to be able to hold off on these concerns for awhile.
I am heading home now. Hopefully I will have a positive update on leader response rate by this time next week.