This week it has been 2 years ago that I concluded my association agreement with K-Infra from Spain. At that time business was slow. The Certified PPP Professional Program had just been launched so I decided to follow the program to become a certified PPP professional. Becoming aware of the merits of the program and since I had already been delivering numerous PPP trainings in my career I also got interested in becoming an accredited CP3P trainer. However, that required becoming an Accredited Training Organisation or getting associated with one. I soon realised that becoming an accredited training organisation would be quite an investment in time and resources so I started looking for such an organisation to become associated with. After some screening I learned that K-infra from Spain was the leading CP3P organisation led by Andres Rebollo, one of the main authors of the CP3P Guide. I decided to contact them and take one their courses to get a sense of who they are and their abilities. I was pleasantly surprised and expressed my interest to Andres to become an associated trainer. Luckily he was also interested in my expertise and experiences and we concluded a 5-year trainer agreement.
Once you sign such an agreement, you think you have done the right thing though obviously you cannot be certain. Will it match with the team, will there be enough business, do we understand one another, do we want the same things, etc.? Aside from football, there haven’t been that many successful collaborations between the Dutch and the Spanish. We have been even on quite opposite sides for some 80 years. However, it can be concluded that the partnership has been quite successful. I have been able to deliver numerous well-received trainings through K-infra contributing as such to the further development of the company.
The saying goes that in times of crisis, you learn who your real friends are. Well, if anything, this partnership has proven be rock-solid. Even though we don’t share an office and we don’t see each other regularly, we have been able to communicate intensively in the past weeks to adapt our service offering to the new situation. A result of trusting one another, the willingness to help and the willingness to accept mistakes and move on to fix it. Not focusing on the financial consequences, though focusing on doing it right.
Therefor I want to say thanks to Andres, Laura, Cristina and Aranzazu for working apart together and compliment them for keeping the company afloat and being committent to making the best of it despite the difficult circumstances in Madrid and the challenging market conditions. Happy to be part of your team.
Stay strong