One concern I have, ahead of their oral exam on Wednesday, is that perhaps there has been too little take-up of opportunity to ask questions. If we were all in a room together, more questions would be asked - being in a meeting on a screen rather than in person seems to bring about a level of passivity on some of the trainees. I wondered if it was because I said it was OK to not have your cameras on, but at the last Zoom meeting the non-camera people were more vocal and interactive than some of the camera-on people, a few of whom it was like looking at a test card sat there. They have a group WhatsApp, regular emails, smaller groups to work in on stuff, and a weekly catch-up phone call with me but I think ... you know what I think? I've maybe not been toppy enough. Or that's silly and I need to work to overcome the problem another way. Make the Zoom meetings longer and include time at the start to have a recap of how everyone's getting on with the work.
My boss informs me the company wants to standardise the training across all our services (I only do the London areas) and, when I complained 'what if I don't like someone else's training resources? or methods?' he came back with telling me the training model would be based on what I was doing and why did I think anything otherwise? etc. ... No pressure then but what if it's shit?
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Date: 2020-09-26 02:22 pm (UTC)One concern I have, ahead of their oral exam on Wednesday, is that perhaps there has been too little take-up of opportunity to ask questions. If we were all in a room together, more questions would be asked - being in a meeting on a screen rather than in person seems to bring about a level of passivity on some of the trainees. I wondered if it was because I said it was OK to not have your cameras on, but at the last Zoom meeting the non-camera people were more vocal and interactive than some of the camera-on people, a few of whom it was like looking at a test card sat there. They have a group WhatsApp, regular emails, smaller groups to work in on stuff, and a weekly catch-up phone call with me but I think ... you know what I think? I've maybe not been toppy enough. Or that's silly and I need to work to overcome the problem another way. Make the Zoom meetings longer and include time at the start to have a recap of how everyone's getting on with the work.
My boss informs me the company wants to standardise the training across all our services (I only do the London areas) and, when I complained 'what if I don't like someone else's training resources? or methods?' he came back with telling me the training model would be based on what I was doing and why did I think anything otherwise? etc.
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No pressure then but what if it's shit?
Hello and guess who can't stop thinking about work even though it's the weekend! x