Thursday, March 15, 2007

Workshop # 1 is done

I did complete the workshop today in plenty of time. Rushing through a 2-day workshop in a few hours left a lot to be desired from a quality standpoint. I had Country Managers, Generlal Managers all the way down to first-line managers in the session, all with varying degrees of business savvy and experience and varying degrees of the english language, and it showed.
I had a lot of cleaning up to to afterwards (in terms of their input to their change documents.) I think my German and British bosses will see what I have done this afternoon to rationalize the output of the session.

They both commented to me that they want me to come back and do a session for their management. My british boss (I guess I can use his name, Ken) was not feeling well, and in site of my providing drugs to him, was not up to going out for dinner to night. He leaves tomorrow so I'll be on my own tomorrow night here as well. I went to a Swiss Chalet and had Wienerschnitzel for dinner, one of my favorites.

The location was not as breathtaking as last night's (right on the Bosphoros) water front, but the food was good. It was a bit embarrasing, as I was in a small room with only three tables and the only other patrons was a couple. The young man was putting the moves on a young woman. It was clear they hade not met, and his agressive behavior was appaling to me. She just giggled, like she enjoyed it. I pretended not to be offended. Am I old fashioned or what?

1 comment:

Molly said...

ha ha! love the stories.
pics aren't popping up for me yet.
4:12 AM Alaska-time. Sawyer's up.
Teething and wants my company for the whole thing!
What's on TV at this hour anyway?
Love you, Dad.
Molly