Yet another week in what has slowly become our home and place of dwelling. It seems to me that the weeks are really flying by and everyone seems to have settled in very well.
My title today is inspired by the chilly weather and my desire to keep chewing. All within reason seeing that I have not had my daily morning snack. Despite my growling stomach and rickety movements, it is a beautiful day.
Training observation and health and safety system implementation is the order of the week. Thus far it has proved successful and enjoyable, there is a lot of learning achieved in our tasks this week. As much as we have undergone immense training sessions, we are now gaining practical experience. It is a step-by-step process and a lenghty one at it, but with so much support and coaching, it's well worth the time.
I am enjoying the tasks allocated to us this week and am certain that things will remain this way for the remainder of the week and all the weeks to come.
On a lighter note, while observing Reece Khan conducting a training session, I have come to the realisation that being a good (excellent) trainer, like he is, comes with experience, passion and a good heart. He possesses all of the above and I am definitely learning a truck load from him.
Keep up the fantastic work!
The learning never stops in this place, who needs varsity when you can get it all at IRCA.
Out
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Friday, February 20, 2009
Hooorray
Its been a very long and eventful week! Though today is the first friday of this week, to me it feels as if it's the second! That just goes to show how busy we were.
We kicked our week off with a very interesting "Train-the-trainer" course. If I may, I would like to commend Jo Enslin on the lovely presentation he gave, the course is important yet he added a "magic touch" to it and may it so enjoyable. We all had to prepare presentations on a topic of our choice. I chose voting, as to why I did that, I have absolutely no idea. Politics is not my "thing" but I learnt a thing or two about politics so it has proven worthwhile.
Thereafter we introduced to one of the most passionate people I have met, Francois Storm, who presented the incident investigation course. WOW! Thats all I have to say. It was really entertaining and informative. What a great man!
After all the fun-and-games, we had an assignment to complete and a test to write, all within reason I suppose, I mean we had to gain something solid out of this week. And we did!
I'm enjoying the programme so much, now more than ever, I'm really glad to be here. As we discussed earlier in the week, amongst ourselves, IRCA is doing a phenomenal thing. We were introduced to two gentlemen form Umsobomvu (MITI... I think), earlier on in the week as well and we let them in on our progress, feeling and thoughts on the programme. It was a refreshing exercise for us all as it reminded us of how lucky we are to be here.
Now that that's dead and buried, it's time to celebrate our steady progress.
So lets go wild and have a party ...
Out
We kicked our week off with a very interesting "Train-the-trainer" course. If I may, I would like to commend Jo Enslin on the lovely presentation he gave, the course is important yet he added a "magic touch" to it and may it so enjoyable. We all had to prepare presentations on a topic of our choice. I chose voting, as to why I did that, I have absolutely no idea. Politics is not my "thing" but I learnt a thing or two about politics so it has proven worthwhile.
Thereafter we introduced to one of the most passionate people I have met, Francois Storm, who presented the incident investigation course. WOW! Thats all I have to say. It was really entertaining and informative. What a great man!
After all the fun-and-games, we had an assignment to complete and a test to write, all within reason I suppose, I mean we had to gain something solid out of this week. And we did!
I'm enjoying the programme so much, now more than ever, I'm really glad to be here. As we discussed earlier in the week, amongst ourselves, IRCA is doing a phenomenal thing. We were introduced to two gentlemen form Umsobomvu (MITI... I think), earlier on in the week as well and we let them in on our progress, feeling and thoughts on the programme. It was a refreshing exercise for us all as it reminded us of how lucky we are to be here.
Now that that's dead and buried, it's time to celebrate our steady progress.
So lets go wild and have a party ...
Out
Friday, February 13, 2009
The RED week!
Our "tough" week is over now and as slow as it was initially, it ended on a pleasant note.
Our presentations were well compiled but we need to work on them more, which we will be doing next week.
The presentation was much more relaxed than our first one and that made it a whole lot better for all of us in terms of the nerves. Though there is a lot of work to be done, we have learnt from our experience and will incorporate the lesson into our next presentation.
I guess now it's weekend time and apparently lover's lane is open this weekend...
Will just have to see if I have a pass!
Have a LOVEly weekend everyone.
Our presentations were well compiled but we need to work on them more, which we will be doing next week.
The presentation was much more relaxed than our first one and that made it a whole lot better for all of us in terms of the nerves. Though there is a lot of work to be done, we have learnt from our experience and will incorporate the lesson into our next presentation.
I guess now it's weekend time and apparently lover's lane is open this weekend...
Will just have to see if I have a pass!
Have a LOVEly weekend everyone.
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Is it the doom of Friday the 13th?
It's been a very long week for all of us and it's satisfying to know that we are getting somewhere.
It's also been particularly confusing for me as I was faced with a tough call to make. I'm sure that raises a lot of eyebrows, cos "what could a young PDP employee have to decide on"?
It's actually as simple as my future and career path choice. I received a surprising call from Wits University raising their concern on the conitinuation of my BSc qualification with them. I chose IRCA over Wits as the PDP programme seemed palatable still, in comparison to the Applied Maths qualification. It was a not-so-easy decision to make after hearing that Wits does value me after all. Nevertheless, despite the "lekker" offer made by the university, I chose IRCA because I'm really enjoying this and would like to see how long this road will be and where it will lead me.
I'm sure I will not regret it.
Back to reality, we are progressing with our presentation and I think it's going to be a long night as I will be working on my slides. It should prove worthwhile though since I need to be 110% ready for the questions that will be thrown at us on friday.
Please wish us luck!
I'm sure we'll be ok though
Out.
It's also been particularly confusing for me as I was faced with a tough call to make. I'm sure that raises a lot of eyebrows, cos "what could a young PDP employee have to decide on"?
It's actually as simple as my future and career path choice. I received a surprising call from Wits University raising their concern on the conitinuation of my BSc qualification with them. I chose IRCA over Wits as the PDP programme seemed palatable still, in comparison to the Applied Maths qualification. It was a not-so-easy decision to make after hearing that Wits does value me after all. Nevertheless, despite the "lekker" offer made by the university, I chose IRCA because I'm really enjoying this and would like to see how long this road will be and where it will lead me.
I'm sure I will not regret it.
Back to reality, we are progressing with our presentation and I think it's going to be a long night as I will be working on my slides. It should prove worthwhile though since I need to be 110% ready for the questions that will be thrown at us on friday.
Please wish us luck!
I'm sure we'll be ok though
Out.
Monday, February 9, 2009
A morbid audit...? Hmmm
"Guys we're doing CAP next week.." , that's how our week ended last friday, all to our surprise.
And to think, we had all channelled our minds to forget about any course.
So ya, we attended ACAT this week and what a course! On our first day we met interesting and versatile personalities including IRCA's very own Paul Mare (our trainer). We kicked off on a very intense note and the session was long. Most of us had grown very comfortable in a working-lifestyle and adjusting was fairly difficult. Nevertheless the course content managed to psyche us up and get us into the learning process again.
The course was very practical and being the "mathematician" that I am, practical is my thing. In simple terms, I learnt quicker because it was not too theoretical. Thinking out-of-the box is an essential part of the course and it's quite difficult. We all came to the realisation that auditing is not all rosy but if carried out effectively and understood well, it is worthwhile. I learnt a lot from the course and the people surrounding me.
We indulged in the delicious food provided by IRCA and that made the week fly through.
I'm really glad we went through this week and survived!
Now it's weekend time.
Out!
And to think, we had all channelled our minds to forget about any course.
So ya, we attended ACAT this week and what a course! On our first day we met interesting and versatile personalities including IRCA's very own Paul Mare (our trainer). We kicked off on a very intense note and the session was long. Most of us had grown very comfortable in a working-lifestyle and adjusting was fairly difficult. Nevertheless the course content managed to psyche us up and get us into the learning process again.
The course was very practical and being the "mathematician" that I am, practical is my thing. In simple terms, I learnt quicker because it was not too theoretical. Thinking out-of-the box is an essential part of the course and it's quite difficult. We all came to the realisation that auditing is not all rosy but if carried out effectively and understood well, it is worthwhile. I learnt a lot from the course and the people surrounding me.
We indulged in the delicious food provided by IRCA and that made the week fly through.
I'm really glad we went through this week and survived!
Now it's weekend time.
Out!
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