On-Course Yet Again

I’m attending a course again this week. I looked at my calendar and realized that in this period of approximately six weeks, I seem to be involved in far too many courses. Nine days for a Lean Sigma course spread across two weeks, also eight days for two CCNA courses spread across two weeks, and another accumulated total of four days on other in-house courses. That’s 21 days in all.

It’s actually taking up more days, because for the CCNA courses, I’ve got to spend quite a bit of preparation time for slides, labs and other materials. So it seems like there’s not much time left to get other office work done. Too many courses just happened to end up being scheduled too close to each other, not that I had planned them to be so.

The Lean Sigma course is pretty interesting. It’s very long, though, stretching for nine days over two weeks. To minimize disruption to regular work, the two weeks are not consecutive, but split one month apart. Fortunately, the main trainer for the course is pretty good. The topics, at least some of them, can be very dry, but he manages to maintain attention. I’m sure the lessons taught will be useful and practical. I wonder, however, if the whole training course could have been expedited. Perhaps I’m looking for an express version of the course.