Pieces of a Man Think it. Do it. Be it. Embellish.

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... 63 to go. Good return rate on the questionnaires today with the first training session. Eight out of nine brought it in and at the end of the session seven of them agreed to sign up for the coaching, too. Not bad at all. It helped that the session was delivered by our Graham, who's such a charismatic and popular guy in the classroom that it'd be difficult not to want more of him given the chance. Let's see how they are after a day with me next Wednesday; a proper Pepsi challenge, with Graham as the Real Thing.

As for early impressions, it's as I anticipated with few really specific training goals emerging across the group; a more typical wish is to 'improve skills' or 'learn more'. I suspect that this particular course - Excel Tips and Tricks - invites a 'suck it and see' attitude, but it'll nonetheless be interesting to see how it affects the coaching, and I'll be devoting tomorrow's trip down to London for the Learning Technologies Show to deciding the goal-setting approaches for Graham to employ over the next fortnight with them.

I must say that although it's been a mad few days of only just managing to stay ahead of the headlong rush of appointments and communications, it feels good to be developing something at work properly, i.e. taking the time to explore it, understand it and test it out. I started wanting to just get it done, but it's proving to be better than just a chore.

Labels: 2010