Imagine that you’re a consultant at P5COM. What does that mean? What does your day look like? Qurien Brouwer explains. He is 25 years old \u2013 no children \u2013 and has been a consultant at P5COM for 3.5 years now. Today he’s working on a maternity care project.<\/p>\n
6 a.m. \u2013 the alarm clock goes off<\/strong><\/p>\n I hop in the shower and ask myself: What should I wear? Today I’ll be shadowing the staff in the planning department, but I’ll also be meeting the director. Right, casual smart rather than the usual suit. While having my coffee, I go through my notes for today once more. What’s the director’s name again, what exactly is the situation at this maternity care institution, and what is today’s objective? Next: into the car and off to the client.<\/p>\n 7.30 a.m. \u2013 at the planning department<\/strong><\/p>\n I ring at the door of an office in the middle of a residential area and meet the planners. First some coffee and small talk, and then the shift starts. The first families with new arrivals call: \u2018Can you send someone round?\u2019 The planners look for a suitable midwife as soon as possible and organize the care. I map out the planning process with markers and large sheets of paper. What are the potential best practices? What are the problem areas? And just as important: I pick up loads of jargon in these four and a half hours. Parturition and Braxton Hicks contractions no longer hold any secrets for me.<\/p>\n 12 midday \u2013 meeting the director<\/strong><\/p>\n The director gives me a warm welcome at her office. We soon discover that we\u2019re both from Rotterdam. Which means rolling up our sleeves and getting down to work \u2013 just the thing for this project. We roughly discuss the entire project and have a look at the first findings from this morning.<\/p>\n 1 p.m. \u2013 lunch<\/strong><\/p>\n My college and I walk to the nearest supermarket for sandwiches and something to drink. On the way, we go back over the P5COM training day from last Friday. Exercise and sales training: a winning combination!<\/p>\n 1.30 p.m. \u2013 working group<\/strong><\/p>\n This afternoon, one of the working groups starts in the client’s organization. I go over the details of our presentation and approach again with my colleague. Yes, the working group itself is on track. We discuss the details, confer briefly, and work up a rough outline with the employees for the brown paper meeting where the processes are to be mapped out.<\/p>\n 4 p.m. \u2013 develop the result<\/strong><\/p>\n I look for a quiet hot desk and work out the morning on the shop floor and working group in further detail while they are still fresh in my memory. I email the list with actions and decisions and write out the process from this morning again \u2013 this time the final version.<\/p>\n 5.30 p.m. \u2013 back home<\/strong><\/p>\n I close the door behind me and leave for home. In the car, the operations manager calls to ask how the first day went. The answer is simple: it was a great, effective day \u2013 one that produced more questions than answers. But we are lucky: the project still has three months to go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Daily report on a maternity care project Imagine that you’re a consultant at P5COM. What does that mean? What does your day look like? Qurien Brouwer explains. He is 25 years old \u2013 no children \u2013 and has been a consultant at P5COM for 3.5 years now. Today he’s working on a maternity care project. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":798,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"hashtag":[85],"class_list":["post-1870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-article","hashtag-about-p5com"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n