Continuing Education for Technical Professionals

                                                                            Volume 3, Issue 4

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Learn From Your Peers

Gary talks about the importance of building rapport with peers and learning from unexpected sources.

QuickQuotes

Steven Covey, Alexander Pope, Harry S. Truman.

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Always make building rapport with your boss a priority.  Your manager is probably even busier than you are, so don't expect the boss to do all the rapport-building.  The manager-employee relationship can usually benefit from improvements.

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by Gary C. Hinkle

We recently took a trip to Europe.  It was not really a vacation, it was more of an "adventure."  My wife and I traveled with our two teenagers and my sister-in-law, and it was much like National Lampoon’s European Vacation – but that’s another story.  We traveled by car and toured many miles of roads, especially in Italy.

This was my first trip to Italy, and before we traveled I didn’t think I’d really enjoy that country, other than a few famous sites.  It turns out that I liked Italy more than any other part of our journey.  The food, the scenery, and the history were all fantastic, but most valuable is what I learned from the Italian people, and from the workings of their society.

Apparently, it’s impossible to find bad coffee in Italy.  Here in the Northwest we are known for our coffee, but it’s still easy to find BAD coffee.  Grab one from a convenience store and chances are it will not resemble what the corner coffee shop is serving.  But pull off the road into an Italian “Autogrill” (convenience store chain) and for one Euro you’ll get an espresso drink that rivals the best coffee in the U.S., and you’ll get it fast!  Same at other “low-end” stores.  U.S. business people can learn from the Italians about how to make really good coffee fast and cheap.  Click here to read the complete article.

QuickQuotes

"Seek first to understand, and then to be understood."

~Steven Covey

"Some people will never learn anything, for this reason: because they understand everything too soon."

~Alexander Pope

"It's what you learn - after you know it all - that counts."

~Harry S. Truman

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