Technical Training Overload? Maybe so...
You see, these past months, I have been assigned to handle technical trainings a whole lot more than Professional Development ones - my week would normally consist of either Testing-related courses (of which there are at least four (4) different trainings around it; Application Analysis (one of my favorites), Application Design & Detailed Design - two separate courses that I have recently been conducting, though I am not fully comfortable handling alone, and Project Management - technically speaking those could be three courses, though one is actually a cut version of the other (which actually makes it harder to conduct for having lesser buffer time to work with). Toss in Team Lead School on occasion and you get the near complete list of such technical trainings I handle (usually with a partner) in Accenture.
These courses cover almost the whole Systems/software development life cycle of your usual custom development - and yes, i sometimes am asked to delve into the design school for packaged applications as well... another conduct I am not too familiar with due to it's delving in SAP, an application I have little knowledge about... but with my partners either being Gina or Fiel, I get to make do with these conducts too.
Of my monthly schedule, I would be lucky to have a Professional Development course conduct - say, once every two weeks. Because of this, you could say that this has made me look forward to such trainings, since I tend to miss conducting them. The simple matter is that they are easier to handle, more personal and allow a stronger connection with the participants - not that we don't achieve a similar connection with the technical courses... but at the end of the day the Professional development trainings are less logically rigorous - thus, less difficult to get across. It is for these same reasons that I find the Technical courses more tiring (thank goodness for having a partner to conduct them with), while the Professional Development courses could be done by me alone and I would feel less drained... maybe because I really do enjoy them more.
At the end of the day, however, it is these Technical courses that have made me more or less, a regular fixture in Accenture this year - and have given me some comfort in terms of being able to 'bring home the bacon', so as you can see, I won't really complain about them. I guess it can be seen as a testament of sorts to my capabilities, that I can be equally home in either type of conduct. It has been that way since my I/ACT days... it still continues to help me now.
Still, I do look forward to these soft-skills trainings... if for anything else, they give me a break form all the technical conducts. If there is any silver lining to my current situation, I stay relevant in the I.T. business - heck, maybe even more so than I started out a few years ago. After all, back then I had some cursory knowledge of Testing principles - but my knowledge back then is incomparable to what I can teach about the topic now. So yeah... when viewed that way, I could say I am improving and am not stagnant.
Looking forward... it seems that Fiel and I will be launching the new version of the company's Application Analysis - a five (5) day conduct, as compared to the older three (3) day course. Embedded here will be the newer versions of their methodology - which houses their best practices. So once again, we learn newer stuff before most of their staff - both local and global it seems. Based on this pilot, possible adjustments for improvements will be considered.
Imagine that...
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Sunday, May 23, 2010
I know... it's been a while since I posted here. Guess I have been too busy with work and other stuff, that sometimes I just forget thinking of work-related stuff I can share. Ah well... here's where I rectify that.
2010 (and using this year as an introduction to my blog in the middle of May just shows how long it's been) has been okay for me. I find myself busy at Accenture conducting trainings for them - more specifically, Coaching, Leadership, Project Management and other technical trainings (like Analysis and Testing)... and just to sort of play catch up, I've decided to post some work-related pictures.
For starters, here's a fairly recent Application Analysis class I handled a few weeks ago - and as classes go, this one was both a challenge (in terms of questions asked) and pleasure to conduct (the personalities were fun and funny to mix and match). In the end, they themselves knew it was an enjoyable session and they even threatened to enroll en mass to the next training on their list. Special mention to Hazel - despite being a manager (or because of that - for stress relief purposes) she was down to earth (no haughtiness at all) and even led with the funny moments.
Then we have another similar Analysis training - this time, the picture is of Lovern, conducting her very first training in both Analysis and Accenture - apparently with a little nudge from my end.
How did she do? She was well received, so yeah... she seems to be a natural for this type of work.
Then there are the Coaching trainings that I have been facilitating lately as well - they are a welcome break from purely technical weeks. Here's a picture I got of my participants practicing a coaching session on each other. He he... if I did not know better, I'd think that this was a quick dating game. Of course, it would look a bit awkward to some that if this really were a dating game, what are two gentlemen doing there? I'd probably say then... "Welcome to the 21st century." - but of course, this isn't the case. Nope... this is just one of the many activities in the Coaching training.
Lastly (at least, for now) we've a coaching session I conducted just two days ago - this in tandem with Gina because of the class size (24 participants - where the normal size would be 12 pax)In other words, it could have easily been two classes - I've a slight worry regarding classes too large... as it lessens the focus, and thus lessens the quality. Ah well, despite that little fact, this session was fun to have - since the participants were likewise game.
Too bad I had to leave them around 4pm - with just about an hour left of conduct time, as I was suddenly needed to help Marimel out in another training - this time, Presentation skills oriented. Over all, I worked for 12 hours that particular day... but I didn't mind. As I said - it's a welcome break form the technical stuff.
2010 (and using this year as an introduction to my blog in the middle of May just shows how long it's been) has been okay for me. I find myself busy at Accenture conducting trainings for them - more specifically, Coaching, Leadership, Project Management and other technical trainings (like Analysis and Testing)... and just to sort of play catch up, I've decided to post some work-related pictures.
For starters, here's a fairly recent Application Analysis class I handled a few weeks ago - and as classes go, this one was both a challenge (in terms of questions asked) and pleasure to conduct (the personalities were fun and funny to mix and match). In the end, they themselves knew it was an enjoyable session and they even threatened to enroll en mass to the next training on their list. Special mention to Hazel - despite being a manager (or because of that - for stress relief purposes) she was down to earth (no haughtiness at all) and even led with the funny moments.
Then we have another similar Analysis training - this time, the picture is of Lovern, conducting her very first training in both Analysis and Accenture - apparently with a little nudge from my end.
How did she do? She was well received, so yeah... she seems to be a natural for this type of work.Then there are the Coaching trainings that I have been facilitating lately as well - they are a welcome break from purely technical weeks. Here's a picture I got of my participants practicing a coaching session on each other. He he... if I did not know better, I'd think that this was a quick dating game. Of course, it would look a bit awkward to some that if this really were a dating game, what are two gentlemen doing there? I'd probably say then... "Welcome to the 21st century." - but of course, this isn't the case. Nope... this is just one of the many activities in the Coaching training.
Lastly (at least, for now) we've a coaching session I conducted just two days ago - this in tandem with Gina because of the class size (24 participants - where the normal size would be 12 pax)In other words, it could have easily been two classes - I've a slight worry regarding classes too large... as it lessens the focus, and thus lessens the quality. Ah well, despite that little fact, this session was fun to have - since the participants were likewise game.
Too bad I had to leave them around 4pm - with just about an hour left of conduct time, as I was suddenly needed to help Marimel out in another training - this time, Presentation skills oriented. Over all, I worked for 12 hours that particular day... but I didn't mind. As I said - it's a welcome break form the technical stuff.
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