Adding value through relatable life experiences

Robin was one of the newest and youngest members of the team attending the training session. As the facilitator shared ideas, strategies and tactics for dealing with the various situations that the team may encounter, she found herself really leaning in to try and absorb and retain as much as she possibly could. It was harder for her because other than a few part-time jobs and her education experiences, Robin could only image some of the scenarios as they were being

Sean was in the same training session, and although new to the company, he had many years of experience in the industry. Since he had been in the industry for so many years, he had a lot of knowledge that others in the training class had lacked. Sean also brought with him so many relatable life and work experiences, making it easy to connect the concepts being taught to his job function.

During an exercise the facilitator paired the newest person with the most experienced person to go through the exercises together during the training. at meant that Robin, the new college graduate, was partnered with Sean, the most tenured person in the training. Initially both Robin and Sean felt uncomfortable about the pairing. Sean believed he would learn nothing from someone so young and inexperienced and that

CHRISTY STEADMAN Editor csteadman@coloradocommunitymedia.com

LINDSAY NICOLETTI Operations/ Circulation Manager lnicoletti@coloradocommunitymedia.com

ERIN ADDENBROOKE Marketing Consultant eaddenbrooke@coloradocommunitymedia.com he would have to do most of the work. Robin was intimidated at rst and just wished that she would have been paired with someone closer to her own age. By the end of the training Robin and Sean were working and collaborating so well. At the end of the day the facilitator asked for lessons learned from the training. Robin shared that although Sean was much more experienced, that his willingness to share information and connect real-world stories to the exercises helped her to connect the dots better to the concepts being taught. And Sean shared that although he believed that his young counterpart could ever teach, “ is old dog any new tricks,” that Robin’s natural curiosity taught him that he certainly did not know it all and it reminded him of the need to be more curious himself.

I don’t know about you but I get to experience this very thing every day. Our own team is made up of some very young, incredibly bright, extremely driven, and curious team members. We are also blessed with, let’s just say, a little more gray than the rest of the team and lots of lessons learned over the years. And we have others on the team somewhere along their own career and life journey that bring so much to the team in the way of critical thinking, wonderful experience, and knowledge.

What makes our team meetings work so well is that those of us who have been around for a while appreciate the new thinking and insights that those just coming into the business are bringing to

SEE NORTON, P13

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Let’s vote green: No on 2O Welcome to Colorful Colorado. People visit and move to Colorado envisioning bountiful nature and green space. Denver, the “Queen City of the Rockies,” was once considered the “city in a park” because of its tree-lined streets and its large parks. I cannot say that I recognize that Denver anymore. e concrete-covered built environment has grown exponentially, and the tree canopy and parks necessary to maintain the title of “city in a park” have not kept pace.

Denver has 6% designated green space. is amount of green space is behind even that of our largest cities, which have an average of 1525%. Even dense New York City has set aside 14%.

How can this small amount of green space be considered adequate for our health and quality of life? It is critical that we preserve the little bit of unpaved green space we have left.

is includes Park Hill Golf Course, which will be voted on this April 4.

e conservation easement on the property prohibits development forever on the full 155 acres. Once one parcel of land protected as open space or park land is rezoned, other green spaces become fair