Archive for the ‘Training and Documentation’ Category

AWWOA running our workshop this week

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This week the Alberta Water and Wastewater Operators Association is running workshops in Red Deer, AB. My associate Rick Hanson is teaching two of them: our one-day Building Procedures with the SOP Toolkit, and half-day workshops on Emergency Response Planning and Critical Task Analysis. We believe the SOP Toolkit workshop can be very helpful for [...]

The Greased Rubber Ball

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Back when I was instructing electronics and instrumentation apprentices and technologists I liked to start each new batch of students with my “Greased Rubber Ball” theory of learning. I told them that their upcoming learning experience would be like trying to stay on top of a giant greased rubber ball. I suggested that if they [...]