EDIT - Reposted to follow on from previous day.
Week 3, Day 5
Trip - Glasgow meeting
Agenda - Meeting
Transport - Car
Hotel - Home
Baggage - Leather laptop bag
Additional Info - It’s Friday!
Today’s trip was another day visit to Scotland, this time Glasgow. When I originally confirmed todays meeting I tried to combine it into yesterday. Driving between Edinburgh and Glasgow is only around 45 minutes but the diaries of others did not allow for this. I knew yesterdays visits would be completed by midday at the latest, so I saw no point in staying overnight in Scotland. I would much prefer to come home, sleep in my own bed, then return the next morning up the west side of Scotland.
My alarm was set one hour later than yesterday so I left around 7am. A trouble free two hour drive got me near Glasgow by 9am and I managed to get a coffee and check emails before the meeting started. I had invited another colleague to the meeting so I caught up with him before it started. He had an interesting two days touring the North of Scotland before coming back to Glasgow for this meeting.
Todays meeting was really an introduction, so I explained my companies role within my customers business and we discussed how we could help each other going forward. This was a nice meeting for a Friday as there was very little in terms of follow up needed from both sides after the meeting. We concluded by penciling in a few training and meeting dates in the coming months.
By 11am I was back in the car and driving towards home, stopping off for lunch around 1230.
On arriving home it was a normal Friday of clearing out the email that I could and winding down for the weekend. You can probably guess what my weekend will involve after the last two detailed in this report.
I started to put together a presentation for the UK team meeting next week. As part of this I am looking at doing something a little different with the team. I have a few ideas around a team building exercise and perhaps doing a small quiz to make it a little more interactive. As part of my new role I feel it’s important to help develop others within the UK team.
I once read an interview with Kevin Spacey when he was promoting House of Cards. This has been one of my favourite programmes of recent times, I bought the first two seasons on DVD and subscribed to Netflix for the third. He feels passionate about helping others get into the acting industry "it's a responsibility for anyone who breaks through a certain ceiling... to send the elevator back down and give others a helpful lift.” This can apply in many industries, I feel it important to help develop others in a similar way that I have been allowed to. In new current role I can play an active role in doing this.
The last job of the week was to contact the courier regarding my failed passport delivery from yesterday, but there was no answer. As I need this back by Tuesday I called the delivery depot and established my parcel was there. I asked them not to redeliver and arranged to go myself to pick it up on Monday morning.