How to Maximize a Learning Opportunity

Here’s a detail of my former office job I’ve never mentioned. The office we occupied was in a building in downtown Seattle. The space had been extensively renovated by a cash-flush dot-com for use as their corporate headquarters. They had a game room, a conference table shaped like a surf board, and a full screening room with raised theater seats and a little stage in front of the screen. Building the place out must have cost their backers a fortune. It looked great.

I believe they were in the office for about a year before they got bought out and absorbed by a bigger dot-com.

Then the company I worked for rented the office. The first thing they did was pay for extensive renovations. Mainly, they had all of the risers, the seats, and the projector, the screen, and the stage removed from the screening room, restoring the floor to a flat, level state with thin cheap carpeting. It must have cost a fortune. It looked cheap and lazy.

What did we use that room for, you may ask? Mostly client presentations and corporate training seminars.

I used to think about how much money they spent pulling out the theater seating whenever we’d host an event, and I’d set up the folding chairs, all pointed at a make-shift stage in the corner.

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