painting the walls
WE all like a makeover. I've got A painting the bedroom walls for me. Amusingly he called me in to help him by painting the last square 10cm of wall-just so I felt involved. I am looking forward to the completion, have enjoyed having him tend to different parts of the house to improve the way I live in it. Could very easy wax lyrical on the importance of making a house liveable.
Had to spend today training a new person. Sometimes training feels like repeating the same message over and over again, and wondering internally if you're being too cheesy with your patter, your analogies, your catch phrases, the way you understand if they're doing it properly. Then you have the gender issue. If I'm training a member of the opposite sex I'll find it less of a chore. The biggest highlight of the training day was when we rambled off and talked about Hobart and Salamanca. He'd been there as a student and had a good time, which made me remember and feel slightly nostalgic for the place, not so much wishing I still lived there, but appreciately the central nature of the city and the ability to walk everywhere. But I think I have a better base here.
It was easily half an hour we spent on this side tracked conversation and I let it end, feeling as though we had to refocus... but in retrospect, I could have let this sidetrack last a lot longer and still deliver effective training. The other bad thing was delivering the training in front of others that I occasionally had to get advice from, I think that the dedicated time is the main aspect of delivering effective training; but still wish I was all over it, but there's just too many things to master. And coming up with words, all day long! It's hard. You are very sensitive to crossed arms, any body language sign. I am always wanting to get other people talking and think of ways to get them to talk more; when they are relying on me to know all the answers it is a little frustrating.
Had to spend today training a new person. Sometimes training feels like repeating the same message over and over again, and wondering internally if you're being too cheesy with your patter, your analogies, your catch phrases, the way you understand if they're doing it properly. Then you have the gender issue. If I'm training a member of the opposite sex I'll find it less of a chore. The biggest highlight of the training day was when we rambled off and talked about Hobart and Salamanca. He'd been there as a student and had a good time, which made me remember and feel slightly nostalgic for the place, not so much wishing I still lived there, but appreciately the central nature of the city and the ability to walk everywhere. But I think I have a better base here.
It was easily half an hour we spent on this side tracked conversation and I let it end, feeling as though we had to refocus... but in retrospect, I could have let this sidetrack last a lot longer and still deliver effective training. The other bad thing was delivering the training in front of others that I occasionally had to get advice from, I think that the dedicated time is the main aspect of delivering effective training; but still wish I was all over it, but there's just too many things to master. And coming up with words, all day long! It's hard. You are very sensitive to crossed arms, any body language sign. I am always wanting to get other people talking and think of ways to get them to talk more; when they are relying on me to know all the answers it is a little frustrating.
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