Craving Creativity!

After nearly a quarter century writing technical manuals and carefully crafted mission statements as an insurance industry professional, I find myself looking forward to expressing my creative side by participating in the Helium community.

My insurance career has taken me to many different areas of the country where I have had the privilege of experiencing much of the diversity that makes the United States such an interesting place to live. I have lived and worked in Tulsa, Oklahoma and had the opportunity to learn the difference between Native American "sovereign lands" and "reservations."

I called Michigan home for seven years where I enjoyed the excitement of the "Motor City" - Detroit and the slower paced, unique culture of the "Yoopers" in the Upper Peninsula with their love of ice fishing followed by the hot sauna.

My current home is in the appropriately named, central Illinois town of "Normal" with it's Midwestern charm offering a calming backdrop to challenges that accompany raising a teen aged son.

While the world of premiums, deductibles and experience rating plans has been extremely good to me over the years I'm very anxious to branch out and write about a wider variety of topics. Helium appears to be the perfect place to satisfy my craving for creativity.

My passion is ...

learning about anything and everything

I know too much about ...

Trivial Pursuit questions - my family refuses to play against me anymore!

My parents always told me ...

study hard and be a "good girl"

My childhood ambition ...

to be a scientist at NASA and analyze the rocks that the astronauts brought back from the moon

My favorite memory ...

helping my grandmother with the ironing and having tea and toast with her

Why I write ...

to share my ideas and learn about myself

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

currenty reading "My Lobotomy" by Howard Dully

My first job ...

summer playground supervisor

My best moment ...

when my son was born

My inspiration ...

my faith. If Christ gave his life for me I need to do something worthwhile in return

Jobs & Careers > Career Path & Goals What does diversity training really accomplish?

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"Why do we need to spend time learning to use the new word processing software?" "What is the point of communication' training?" "Don't you think that this customer service training' is just a colossal waste of time?"

These questions sound fairly ridiculous, don't they? Surely no thinking person in today's business environment would question the need for employees to receive training in areas so critical to achieving business success, would they? But substitute the words "diversity training" for any of the items above and I'm certain that many of us have heard comments such as these ...

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