It’s training season at big organizations

Abstract

Summer is well past, and fall is here in the US. For employees of large organizations, that means training season. Our companies rightfully want us to grow in our jobs and become better managers or scientists or salespeople, so they arrange training opportunities for us. I’m trying to be positive about this fall’s training, I really am, but it can be hard. Maybe I have a chip on my shoulder because I am not a trained journalist. C&EN has great reporters and editors who went to journalism school and great reporters and editors who didn’t. Yes, the learning curve was steep at first, but I became a journalist on the job. Likewise, I can’t help thinking I can be a leader and manager by figuring it out as I go. In recent weeks, I participated in training on three organizational levels at the American Chemical Society: training for ACS leaders,