| If you don't speak French - like me - you will have no | | | | Just think how easy it is to make a meal in your own |
| idea what this title means! Translated it means "to put | | | | kitchen when you have all the ingredients and you can |
| in place". | | | | find them easily. It's the same in our office. We can get |
| I attended a speaker training in Memphis, TN and on | | | | so much done when: |
| the first night of training we all went to a professional | | | | A - We know what needs to be done |
| cooking school to prepare a meal together. It was an | | | | B - We can find everything |
| incredible experience! | | | | C - We keep focused on what we are doing |
| I've never seen such a clean and well stocked kitchen. | | | | We ended up all at the same time sitting down to an |
| We were given instructions and then put into groups to | | | | incredible Italian dinner. I couldn't believe it! I even helped |
| each make part of the Italian dinner. It first felt totally | | | | make homemade pasta! |
| overwhelming until we realized how working in a | | | | 'Mise en place' is really a state of mind. When you truly |
| kitchen is just like how working in our office should be. | | | | grasp this idea you will always make sure you have |
| Since everything had its place and was labeled, even | | | | everything you need before starting a project and you |
| though we were in a strange kitchen we quickly got | | | | will prioritize the steps and get them in the right order. |
| our bearings and started to prepare the meal. In other | | | | Here's to great cooking and an efficient office! |
| words 'mise en place' - everything in its place. | | | | |