Currently training a student at my dayjob and she had to do a survey for school. Our team only meets up in full once per month, and so we could only really do the survey either in 1 week or in 5 weeks.

I pushed her to prepare it in 1 week, so we’d have time afterwards. It certainly was a bit of a tight schedule to work out all the details.

In particular, I wanted to give her a firm structure, as she’s still sometimes chaotic when explaining things. So, I had to dump a lot of thoughts about that structure on her in that week and figured, she’d only really remember the vibes.

Well, team meetup day comes around, I do an impromptu presentation for our team to explain the context and from there on out, she took over, conducting the surveys and explaining each participant the structure+questions.

And damn, not only did the structure work quite well, she was following it down to a T.
I almost wish she would have winged it a bit more, but I did provide that firm structure and that she was able to remember it all, that was just seriously impressive. Made all the surveys a real breeze for her.