7/10/2010 Learning…

Well, this is the 3rd week of training at a new position and I don’t feel as lost as I used to.  There are positive aspects to the training as well as negative ones.

The positive:  new friends, new personalities, new materials, new challenges!  It really is a new and brighter future than the most recent past.

The negative:  incomplete training procedures, horrible trainer, long boring training sessions, incomplete logic to some of the procedures….liability risks that I am not sure I want to be a part of or a party to.

As much as I would like to say that the Trainer is completely off here, it is not entirely her fault.  As an individual she is very nice but she should never have been put into this assignment.   We have a bright group of individuals.  Some with experience-some not.  I fall into the first group…and I think that it makes it difficult at times for her.  She is ill prepared to teach to experience individuals as we do tend to ask more detailed questions than she is used to being asked.  I also will fault myself, and some of the others as we are impatient with her lack of training.  The programs are what they are but those of us with experience know that you need to go the extra mile when you are training.

As I think of what is coming up in the near future, I wonder how long it would take for me to move forward and upward.  I know I am NOT a frontline person.  I have way too much knowledge and everything inside me tells me I should advise properly…something I will have to hold back on as it will not be my job.  *chuckles*  An unfortunate circumstance for me.

So..am I learning?  Yes, very much so!  I am learning to curb my impatience and accept some things.  I am learning that in this job…I am far from a place where I can use all that I know.