Picking a course
Monday, 8 Aug 2005 | Work in Asia
Although I’ve already decided to start taking a course in Thai - I figured it could never hurt to know more than the few holiday phrases I learned - I am now also looking into some professional courses that might be useful for me when making the move to Thailand.
Why focus on what seems to be such a minor detail? Because I’ve been so busy with work this year, I haven’t been able to touch my educational budget for 2005. Last week I was told to sign up for a course before August 20th, or the budget would be blocked. I’m deciding together with my boss what would be the best one for me in relation to my current job.
But maybe it wouldn’t be such a bad idea to think about signing up for another course. I’ve been a regular customer at Intermediair Management Training for so long. I must have spent over €10.000 with them by now. So I think when I sign up for another one, I should try to make them give me a course for free or at least discount it. I don’t know if they will, but I’ve heard they do do that. So I should at least give it a try.
Question is, which course should I take? I think it should be one that is primarily useful for me when making the move to Thailand, something that will look good on my resume or will help me in finding a job there. A couple of options I’ve been looking into:
- Summerschool in innovations: teaches concept development for products and services, how to maintain further development and strategic innovations.
- Summerschool financial management & performance measurement: how to interpret financial reports, make decisions based on that, install control systems and measure results.
- Accountmanagement: gain more insight in customer relations and sales, use your own personality to support that process.
- Salestechniques: learn more about the dynamic of salestalks and how to make them work for you the best way possible.
- Professional growth: learn how to grow in your position, based on personal ambitions and qualities and those of the organisation you work for.
I picked these based on the brief descriptions and printed the full brochures for bed-time reading sometime soon. But if you have any ideas which would be interesting and why, please let me know!