Monday again!

Today was one busy day in the PM office.  Three different groups with three different goals and one office.  We all spent the morning preparing for our various field visits.  I took Fredy and Eugenio (the two ejectors) and their two tecnicos to the hotel salon so we could get connection to the internet and I could show fredy how the Salesforce online system workes.

The group of 4 tecnicos I set up in a corner next to a plug (as the iPhones had no charge) and let the two proficient tecnicos who had attended two of our training sessions teach the other two tecnicos who had only attended one.  I wish I had gotten a picture of the four of them in the corner with their heads together but alas was very well occupied working with their two bosses.

At the end of the session, the first for Fredy on the computer, he told me he was really excited because this meant that he did not have to bring or keep track of all of those pieces of paper he has, so far, been responsible for.  The tecnicos who were working in pairs also seemed to pick it up.  Fredy's tecnicos who found it challenging last time around started to get it thanks to the help of Eugnenio's tecnico team.  A really cool ripple of the salesforce.com skill transfer I got to observe first hand.

While I've discovered, going back into the salesforce.com system to check their work, that they forgot one small field I feel that they understand the terminology and depth of the platform and that making these types of small tweaks should not be too challenging.  It was a really great training and I can feel the learning coming easier now that tecnicos and ejecutores have been repeatedly oriented to the system; they are familiar with the terminology and seem to more naturally think of stove building as levels inside of levels.  When I asked one of the Tecnicos at the end of the training how he felt it was going he said it's al about the repetition, just like learning how to build stoves, it seems hard when you first learn but by the end it comes naturally.

Returning to the PM office for lunch we got to see each of the groups off in the afternoon to their different sites.

I went with the verifiers into the field and had the chance to see several more of the stoves and one of Don Ricardos famous charlas.  See below.

We also walked up and visited several traditional stoves... this was an especially muddy pathway and poorly functioning traditional stove.

And below, the verification crew + Esther + Ricardo after a wander through Concepcion

People arriving home from the fincas... it was a pretty overloaded truck!

Again a day filled with some really incredible stoves built and reminders about how far out there we get and how horrible those traditional stoves are.  Another Honduras day, totally full.  Tomorrow some more training!

Other piece of big news... our ArcGIS high resolution maps have come through... thank you Stevan for making it happen in Colorado!  Screen shot to come...