On 7/15/10 3:30 AM, Trey Darley wrote:
> Suppose you have a junior colleague with bang-up technical skills but who
> gets thrown off-track whenever things don't work as expected. Suppose this
> person gets routinely blocked from working until a more senior person has
> the availability to unblock t
On Jul 15, 2010, at 2:35 PM, Mark McCullough wrote:
> If they started down a slightly wrong path, I'd keep an eye on it, but going
> down wrong paths is normal.
... and sometimes yields a much better solution than the "proper, expected
path" would have led to. :-)
I've seen a fair share "hol
On 2010 Jul 15, at 02:30, Trey Darley wrote:
> Suppose you have a junior colleague with bang-up technical skills but who
> gets thrown off-track whenever things don't work as expected. Suppose this
> person gets routinely blocked from working until a more senior person has
> the availability to u
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Brandon S Allbery KF8NH
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> One more comment: I see a number of respondents here despairing because
> some people don't have the "run and find out" urge. I'd like to point out
> that the in-built urge to d
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One more comment: I see a number of respondents here despairing because
some people don't have the "run and find out" urge. I'd like to point out
that the in-built urge to do so is independent of the expertise to do so;
the former can't be taught, bu
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On 7/15/10 04:15 , Luke S Crawford wrote:
> You need to make it clear that there is no longer a script, and that
> their job is now, essentially, to figure things out.
+1
When I first got a job involving larger projects (with more severe
consequen
> From: discuss-boun...@lopsa.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@lopsa.org] On
> Behalf Of Trey Darley
>
> Suppose you have a junior colleague with bang-up technical skills but
> who
> gets thrown off-track whenever things don't work as expected. Suppose
> this
> person gets routinely blocked from workin
I definitely agree with Mr. Luke Crawford, it's often a problem of
expectations.
This may seem overly simplistic, but I have always used the socratic method.
You effectively model the questions she should be asking herself to solve
the problem. She will pick up on it pretty quickly. I combine t
Trey,
You've touched on a topic that I feel isn't really taught in any class
or certification. I am not sure how it gets taught to the student. Luke
had a good point that the junior admin has to know that they aren't
going to go to the wood shed for trying some type of fix , The First
Time. They h
"Trey Darley" writes:
> Suppose you have a junior colleague with bang-up technical skills but who
> gets thrown off-track whenever things don't work as expected. Suppose this
> person gets routinely blocked from working until a more senior person has
> the availability to unblock them. Suppose th
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