Tips for businesses - scheduling with others
Let's pretend that you've come across a dynamic, active business that provides Perl training in Australia, and you're eager to market their courses to the rest of the Asia-Pacific region. You have an agreement on how to handle bookings and payments — or at least you've been sent a proposal and you haven't objected — so it all looks pretty good.

The training manager informs you that they're very busy in the coming year, so please make sure that she gets any proposed dates ASAP to make sure there are no conflicts with existing arrangements.

Do you:

1. Work with the training provider closely to arrange dates.
2. Don't liase with the training provider, but instead look at the training provider's freely available on-line calendar and organise courses that don't conflict.
3. Ignore the training provider and their calendar, organsie some dates that may or may not conflict, and send them notification after advertising has commenced.
4. Ignore the training provider and their calendar, and instead organise dates that suit you. Don't tell the training provider what the dates are, even though you've started to advertise the courses. When the training provider asks for dates ignore them for the first six requests, and then finally respond.

If you answered 'd', then congratulations! You're in the same league as many other international training organisations.