Mondays and Other Exciting Events
Mondays
Monday mornings are always interesting here at the office. It seems that there is a lot of miscellaneous stuff to do (e.g., timecards, scheduling meetings), but it also seems like clients are ready to hit the ground running for the week. Makes for stressful moments sometimes! However, this morning has been pretty quiet (for a Monday), so I thought I would spend some time writing about the training event I went to last week...
Training and Networking
In general, the training we get here at Trinity is based on the classes being taught and the immediate or perceived future need. In other words we send consultants to our own classes (see the Training section of our web site for more info) often based on projects that they are doing at the time. This year, the director of the North Region, which includes St. Louis, Columbus, Kansas City, Chicago, Seattle, Minneapolis, and Iowa decided to conduct a region-wide training event. We all met in Chicago last Friday and Saturday (yes, we do occasionally give up a Saturday!) to see presentations given by senior staff as well as participate in several mixers/networking opportunities. It was great to finally meet face-to-face with people that you may have been working with for months or even years and never actually met. In addition, the training topics were great - from core topics related to our business (e.g., Startup, Shutdown, Malfunction Plans and Refineries) to emerging topics (e.g., Endangered Species Act Consultation - this one was particularly fabulous since it was presented by me!). Even though we all came back pretty exhausted, I think that it was worth the time and effort to be able to meet people from other offices and learn so much in the span of just a couple of days.