Step 1...Check!

Yesterday I wrote about how busy our sub-team was as we were getting ready for our preliminary presentation that took place this morning. There was a lot to it. All three of us had our presentations to put together - one on the training program, one on the incubator program and one on their IT structure. Then, we had to get them to our PA, Candra, in time for each of them to be translated. Somehow we got it all done and we were still able to go out last night for a few hours and have some fun.

This morning was our presentation. Of course, things at the hotel did not start off as anticipated. We planned on leaving the hotel at 7:45am because our presentation was at 8:30am. As of last night the hotel is heavily booked because the President's (who is from here) daughter is getting married next week. Apparently, there is a public reception so many Indonesians are coming to Solo for the celebration. Even though I was at the restaurant at 7am there were hardly any seats available. I ordered three cappuccinos to go - for Donnacha, Candra and me. It took over 30 minutes to get them. While I waited for the coffee I sat out in the lobby, had a light breakfast and sipped on some coffee. We finally left the hotel at 8am with about an 8:15am arrival at STP. Then, we had issues with our presentations uploading and Candra's laptop started doing an update just as she was trying to print off our presentations in Bahasa. Fortunately, we were pretty well pulled together by the time the leadership team arrived.

I must say, we rocked our presentations! I was a little nervous about mine because even though we did a lot research and interviews I was afraid there were maybe holes in our understanding of what is currently happening with the incubator and what they still are in need of. All three presentations couldn't have gone better, really. During our slides on finding and recommendations there were a lot of smiles and heads nodding. It was rewarding and assuring to see that they are in agreement with the direction we are moving it.

So, now we have a lot of work to do on our final documentation we will be giving them about how to follow through on the recommendations we have made.

It's really exciting, though. Seeing our hard work coming to fruition is a great feeling.

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