High Five

My job at Mission Federal has been ideal. I'm working right now. From home. After a trip to the beach on my mountain bike, a bit of exercise, then a cell phone call to my boss to tell him I won't be coming in to work until Wednesday afternoon. We have a meeting Thursday morning, then he told me to stay out of the office on Friday because the anthropology student that shares the office with me will be conducting interviews. The boss is a great person to work for. He's got a great sense of humor. I emailed him yesterday after I had a solution for our problems and told him if he loves the idea to come in my office and give me a high five, and if he didn't to share the feedback with me in an email. I called up this morning, like I said, after riding my bike across the rocks of Sunset Cliffs for the first time. When he hears that its me he says. "If you were here right now we'd be high fiving." I finally solved the riddle of how to make the training at Mission Federal please both the decision makers.

• My boss is the training manager, who likes leading New Employee Orientation sessions once a month.
• Currently he leads them once every two weeks.
• He works with the HR manager, who wants the sessions to be held every week.
• I'm brought in from the outside to make a decision about how it should be done.

After two months there, I'm very comfortable with all the content, from the benefits training we do, to the various programs for employees, to the way the information could be structured. The real question was the delivery system to get the point across. Right now its all instructor led. They don't even use a computer. They just play a few videotapes. There isn't even a computer in the room. What should we do? I came to learn of the new "Enlighten" system they use on the TVs for the members to watch while they're in the branches. It was just bought by a vendor named "enlighten" who intersperses a live closed circuit feed with whatever media we'd like to stream. We are going to use the TVs in the branches to train the new employees every week on monday. We're all excited and high fiving because most of the content will be covered on the TVs for an hour before the branch opens.. managers keep their employees for the day. nobody has to drive to sorrento valley. and we dont have to use our busy training manager teaching newhire classes every week. In the words of my man, Borat. High Five! Thanks to Cringehumor.net for the sound clip, and The Borat Site for the image.