"Steve I am asking you guys before discussing this will our young and somewhat inexperienced new Super. I only know enough to be dangerous."
Tiger:
The very first thing you need to do is get on the same page with your super. So my advice would be to go to him and ask him to answer very honestly if he agrees with that statement of yours above.
Despite the "smiley", I'm serious. If you can put your super in a position to feel he can be completely honest with you about anything I guarantee you half your battle will already be won.
More and more, but in retrospect, I think of the very moment when my super and I finally got on the same page. It took a couple of years to get to that point but no more than about a minute to recognize and I remember exactly where we were standing and I particularly remember the look on his face. After that things really began to change and I think I can honestly say in the last 2-3 years in his 26 year career with us he became totally re-energized.
The best of the supers out there really do like challenges---eg they like goals. This isn't my own sense, a pretty good number of them have told me that kind of thing has kept them going.