I have a friend who is in this program now to become an electrician. She has been working, for pay, on active construction sites for over a year, after completing introductory training/classroom work.
Accepting an apprentice means taking a preliminary dip in your own productivity, until such time as the apprentice can contribute a net gain to your unit. Someone has to take the brunt of that-- with electricians, for example, the introductory training helps them not to kill themselves.
Many subjects combine an academic component with an apprenticeship component. Physicians spend a lot of time in clinics as med students before they become full-fledged doctors. Teachers have to student-teach prior to becoming full-fledged teachers.
Cosmetology, hair styling, auto mechanics, the list goes on. All of these professions combine some academic study of principles with intense, prolonged hands-on training.
In the US if you look at the regulations for unpaid interns, the employing organization must provide experiences equivalent to the amount of learning the intern would recieve in a college course. There's some idea of treating unpaid interns as unskilled labor, but that as far as I know is against the intent of the "unpaid intern" concept and is, technically, illegal.
Well said. In a business context it often feels like a risk to admit that you don't know something. Because it's a competitive situation and the Prod M Lead isn't about to display ignorance to the Dev Lead who is nodding sagely like they understood all the malarkey that the Chief Architect just spewed out.
And since those two doofuses are pretending they already have a clue, the QA Lead feels even more like THEY should already have one and so on and so forth.
Switch that to a context where you're the Prod M Lead, and you're talking about the roadmap to the Sales team who are all nodding their heads like they totally get it even when they're not and you have a high potential for an unproductive or counterproductive situation.
To me, being willing to admit you don't understand, or even to ask questions as if you don't understand when you do, is a sign of leadership-- it signals that you really care about having everyone on the team clued in and able to apply themselves to the situation at hand.
Heck, it might even be useful to have a "designated doofus" in your meetings who is there specifically to watch for this behavior and ask "stupid" questions to ensure understanding by as many people as possible in that room.
As a father of a toddler, I really appreciate stories where you get a phone call out of the blue and somebody tells you your child died. I didn't have enough anxiety about him already, so thanks for giving me a reason to panic at random phone calls from my wife.
That is almost the entire reason that I like owning. The kitchen looks like I want it to look, the walls are the color I want them to be, the doorbell is wifi, I have a Nest thermostat, and if I don't like that there's a peach tree in the front yard I have it removed (true story!).
This is about suppressing information availability and opportunity in rural areas.
Sorry financially-challenged rural dweller, you only have a phone with a fixed data allowance. I guess you'll need to continue relying on old media for your information needs. Have fun with whatever the public library has to offer-- oh by the way we're cutting the library from our budget.
Oh and those of you who, despite our best efforts, discovered that you can learn a knowledge trade and work from home, staying near your family and friends, bringing money into the local economy rather than move to a city? Sorry, it's not in our political interest to allow you to broaden your horizons.
I would have been more interested to read a story that told me which software should be cheaper now that it doesn't have to bake the MP3 license into its selling price.
And yet I constantly see those "things you can't say" being said in the public mainstream media. Like the Wall St. Journal. The claim that dissent is being suppressed rings hollow to me. Just because that dissent is in opposition to a lot of other voices-- should it be given equal weight or "volume" in our discourse, or proportionate weight?
I assume this tool isn't meant for everyone, but rather those who feel they struggle to be heard and taken seriously when communicating via email.
Sometimes it's effective to be direct, and if you intend to be direct you might consider flagging those words and phrases. But if you are trying to either be conciliatory, or generate consensus, then you need to use phrases like "I think".
Email tone is incredibly difficult to manage, and most people fail. I've lost count of the number of times I've had to de-escalate a situation that was caused when email tone was misinterpreted as harsh, mean, condescending, sarcastic, whiny, etc.
It's to the point where my perfect email plugin would basically block the page and say "isn't there another tool you could use to communicate this"?
I have a friend who is in this program now to become an electrician. She has been working, for pay, on active construction sites for over a year, after completing introductory training/classroom work.
Accepting an apprentice means taking a preliminary dip in your own productivity, until such time as the apprentice can contribute a net gain to your unit. Someone has to take the brunt of that-- with electricians, for example, the introductory training helps them not to kill themselves.
Many subjects combine an academic component with an apprenticeship component. Physicians spend a lot of time in clinics as med students before they become full-fledged doctors. Teachers have to student-teach prior to becoming full-fledged teachers.
Cosmetology, hair styling, auto mechanics, the list goes on. All of these professions combine some academic study of principles with intense, prolonged hands-on training.
In the US if you look at the regulations for unpaid interns, the employing organization must provide experiences equivalent to the amount of learning the intern would recieve in a college course. There's some idea of treating unpaid interns as unskilled labor, but that as far as I know is against the intent of the "unpaid intern" concept and is, technically, illegal.