The new Person to Person Gathering sub-team of RQT has been diligently working on plans for “new and improved” gatherings. The members of our sub-team are Kiet Tran, Rosemarie Valencia, JR Sloan, Lisa Scheyer and Celia Durham.

As you will see, it ain’t just for breakfast anymore! After reviewing the results of the RQT Survey taken by the previous team, we took a mini survey and asked you questions in order to find out how we could improve the gatherings for better participation. From the mini survey results we found out that nearly 75% of Financial Management would prefer to meet for lunch rather than breakfast. We also came to the conclusion that most people wanted to attend an event once per year. We have scheduled four events for the year which will include three lunches and one breakfast. We plan to invite each employee at least one time per year. The purpose of the gathering is to get away from your daily work for a meal and to meet employees from other departments to do some networking. Hopefully you’ll make contacts with people in other departments so if you ever need to call another department you will know someone in that department as well as be able to put a face with a name.

We also have come up with some pretty great topics and speakers. For our first gathering we have scheduled George Bridges, Dean and Vice Provost of Undergraduate Education to speak on “How the Undergraduate Needs You” and will be ordering some delicious box lunches from Briazz Catering Services. Future lunch plans include watching and discussing a humorous training video.

We are pretty excited about our new events and hope that each and every one of you in Financial Management will attend. So keep your eyes peeled for your invitation because everyone in Financial Management will be invited and we know that you won’t want to miss out on these new and improved Person to Person Gatherings!