We all have been looking forward to this day as the preparations have been proceeding. Today, the business seminar has actually started and we had at least as much fun as expected.
As planned today's seminar cases were taught in two different classes at simultaneously and we were able to experience a fantastic level of quality as for the lecturing and the participant's contribution. We had participants from all over Managua and its suburbs, Masaya, and La Chureca forming a group of about 35 people.
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We started the day of with and introduction in which the project and the seminar was introduced and we had the chance to present ourselves as students from Babcock that would be teaching the next two days. This was followed by an ice breaker that gave all of us, the participants and the Proyecto Nicaragua community, to get to know each other. After that the lecturing could be launched to cover the brainstorming tool (OB), flowchart and bottlenecks (OPS), break-even analysis, and pricing. We also had a lunch all together and a few more ice breaker actions. These included working the human nod and Sarah's intro to square dance!
Overall, we had a great time with the participants and are honestly looking forward to get all back together tomorrow to take it from here!
Hasta manana, amigos!
