RETA Breeze Sep-Oct 2022

will still be developing materials to educate those who operate and maintain those automated systems. We will still be developing Certification and testing to validate the knowledge of those same individuals. Our challenge is to remain relevant to the worker of the future. To accomplish that, we must be ready and willing to change and adapt to the needs of the workplace of the future.

Josh changed. He changed roles—he was promoted from a Refrigeration Manager to a Refrigeration Trainer. He also changed his e-mail tagline, and I really like his new tagline. Now it reads: “Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.” – Benjamin Franklin. That is a profound truth that teachers and instruc tors of adult learners must know and understand.

You know, I guess change can be good. When things change, we need to change in response.

Keith Harper RETA National President

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