I (Matt) acted as a table coach for a MEC (Management Excellence Community) Connect event, namely “Delivering results through your team.” The event focused on delegating, managing up, and creating teams with good communication and accountability. It only lasted about an hour and a half, and the table coach part was pretty simple, mainly just providing topics, keeping the conversation moving. The other people at my table came from all kinds of disciplines and teams, including finance, games, and health care. We had a pretty good conversaton. Strange timing, but also on this day another 800 positions were eliminated, in another stage of cost cutting at work. Andrea and I didn’t know anyone who lost their job.
A copy of Windows 7 was shipped to Uncle Steve, I came up with a quick fix for horizontal mouse wheel scrolling in Publisher (due to an IntelliPoint change), and the 2009 Holiday Party was announced, although Andrea and I wouldn’t be able to attend because of SCUBA certification class.
I (Andrea) worked at Gregory Heights that day. In the morning I was a substitute in the Kindergarten class for 2 hours, working with Peggy Recker, whose son I went to school with and she subbed for classes back when I went to Gregory Heights. Then I worked with the special needs kids for about 2 hours, had lunch, and subbed in the second grade class for about an hour. After that I subbed in the 4th grade class with Lorraine Adams, who taught 4th grade when I went to Gregory Heights. It was a pretty odd set of coincidences.
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