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Teachable Moments

Thanks to Liz at Eternal Lizdom for posting her topic for Weds Weekly Writings. This week: Teachable Moments When I first thought about this topic, my mind went immediately to parenting. Once we become parents, I think it is our automatic responsibility to have teachable moments with our kids when necessary. However, my next thought traveled to the workplace. Hmm...I thought, now that would be something interesting to write about. I have worked at my current company for 10 years in various roles in the same basic department (IT). The various roles have taken me from software marketing and development, technical writing, quality assurance, support, documentation and to the business analysis career that I am pursuing today. With each experience I have encountered people and many teachable moments. First, a teachable moment is something to me that is not necessarily something where I am the teacher. It is something where one, some or all parties involved learn something valuable about lif