10 possible job titles for my new job
A new Director for the HR Trend Institute
This is my last week as employer of my current company (ARCADIS). From June 1, 2014, I am working for the HR Trend Institute. From employee to owner. There has been some discussion about my new job title in the Supervisory Board of the Institute. As a trendsetter, should the Institute not abolish job titles? As a network organization without employees, can the Institute have a Director? Does Director as a title work globally? After some brainstorming the following suggestions were on the white board:
- Initiator
- Founder
- Director
- Managing Director
- Inspirator
- CIO (Chief Inspiration Officer)
- The Hub
- No title
- Connector
- Chief Architect
All good suggestions, and I am sure we could have come up with more. In the end they let me choose. For the moment I have chosen Director. Mainly because I have been a director since 1997, and so at least on thing stays stable. (I remember that my family was very proud when I was appointed as Director at my new employer in 1997; they thought I was THE director, and they didn’t know the company had many directors, as the last thing they cared about was job titles and org charts).