Tamk Consulting Academy (click here for more details)

Here is information about the TAMK Consulting Academy (TCA) for which I am an assistant, temporary coach.  It is an EXTREMELY interesting concept and is designed to give the International Business students experience in solving real world problems.  Below is a brief overview of our latest meeting.

By the way, Analeise babysits for Anni, the woman third from the left.  She babysits Leo every Wednesday afternoon.

Visiting the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health (click here for full story...)

I went to the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health (Työterveuslaitos).  This is the second longest word in Finnish that I am able to pronounce.  There I set up some more work to do for the rest of the year...

The office for this branch is right across the street from TAMK.  You can see that it had just snowed the night before.  Because it was somewhat warm that morning, it was really foggy.  As a side note, some of my students that are working on their Advanced Topics project are working on a project for security and terrorism.  Their original topic was HUGE and they would have needed several books to finish.  Instead I made several email inquiries and they are now writing their research on this building.  They have found and translated the best practices and regulations for Finnish building security and are comparing these to the emergency plans for this building (Hippostalo).

One of my Professional Development and Communication Skills classes wanted to look at Office Ergonomics. (Click here for the full story...)

I am teaching Professional Development and Communications Skills with Mike Garant.  I am letting the class choose their own topics.  Here is how the 'Office Ergonomics' talk went...

Getting started for practicing Office Stretches.

Teaching Financial Risk Management (click here for the full story)

My colleague Pia asked me to teach Financial Risk Management and I learned the similarities to Risk Control.

Places we shop in Tampere (click here for more...)

Here are some of the places that we either regularly shop at or are specialty shops we thought might be interesting.

Places to Eat in Tampere (Click here for more...)

Here is a list of some of the places we've eaten in Tampere...

The Most Beautiful Library (click here for more...)

The Metso Library is one of the most beautiful libraries I have ever seen.  It is very close to our house and we go quite often.  They don't have every book in English that I might want, but they do have quite a bit.  Last night Kate and I went there and took these pictures: