Week 2 lessons

Today was week 2 of lessons. I have absolutely no idea what the marketing person is talking about - he seems to have a set of OHPs that he puts up and talks about in no context. Of course if I concentrated harder perhaps ... spent less time wondering why he seems so scared of us...why it seems so disjointed - what I'm supposed to be thinking when he says stuff about different brands (in a "you will all know about these brands and which is supposed to be better" tone of voice. I'm going to have to surcome and ask someone which is better Soni or Amstrad) This is a new experience for me "I'm going to read the book to make sense of the lecturers" is a new thought in my head. Shows how much I've been spoon fed before I guess. Better get used to it. At least I've got the core text, best get reading.

In Managing for Improving Performance (MIP) we have been given a clear indication of how much (as a minimum) we are supposed to put in on each course outside the lectures - "spend about 2 hours reading this for next week". I guess I can infer that's the same for each module, however it does demonstrate this is a steeper learning curve than last week suggested.

Spent today discussing presentations and I had a lesson in "sharing a classroom with a tangent follower" (sub title "what it's like being with Iola when she's not practicing Stop and Think") as there was a random tangent "public v private sector consultation processes" that was persued for a little while. And did it bug me - oh yes! So we don't like being around people like me... which means we have to not be so much like me, because I doubt I'm the only one it irritates. So much better when we stop and think Iola - unlike getting tired openy gob girl in session 3. Perhaps I should apologise to tutor next week, but it just seemed that quite a few were scared by the intro to statistics we had today, so when the "read up on it" came, out the words popped - look at a GCSE level text for this NOT university level. So "Stop and Think even when tired" is to be worked on. Along with "don't get sucked into negativity" which was the lesson from today at work (oh yes and stop and think came in there too).
That and find the text books soon as next week is Standard Deviation and beyond - Standard deviation being just beyond were my stats understanding stops, and as gobby girl you may be expected to have more of a grip than you do, so look what a position you have put yourself in.