The first point I mentioned there was the trainee workshop in Henningsdorf (close to Berlin). You have to know that Bombardier Transportation is divided into several divisions like "Light Rail Vehicles", "Propulsion and Controls", "Bogies" (that's where I work) etc. The PPC (Propulsion and Controls) trainees wanted to have an inter-divisional workshop so they invited us, the Bogies trainees, from Siegen and Derby to Henningsdorf.
All together we were 8 trainees and you can see it in different ways;-)
- 4 from PPC and 4 from Bogies or
- 7 guys and 1 girl or
- 2 from England, 2 from Sweden, 4 from Germany
As networking was the aim of the workshop, we already met Sunday evening at the "Brandenburger Tor" (see picture). After a short sightseeing tour we went to the "Biergarten" to get that networking started. And it was successfully continued on Monday night...
Monday morning we started at the company at 9:00 with the agenda and a short introduction to the PPC division. After that we visited the plants of PPC and "Mainline and Metros". The training session started after lunch and was on Cultural Awareness. To be honest I had expected something like a lot of ridiculous role plays and a boring presentation but it wasn't at all like that. The trainer was really good and I think I learned a lot from his examples and exercises (which weren't ridiculous at all). On Tuesday the training lasted from 9:00 to 17:00.
Besides of the training, I found it really interesting to get to know those other trainees. Before I had not even know there were trainees at Bogies in the UK... And I was surprised to find out that the trainee programs are quite different: at PPC it lasts a year and includes two stays abroad, the poor Bogies trainees stay for 2 years at the same site.
In brief: I enjoyed the very useful training session and the networking with 8 really nice people.
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