Mia (36 years old)

Fragment from an interim evaluation interview with her department head at Prospects

Since I transferred from the City of Ghent to this job in the private sector, I get so much more satisfaction from my professional life. While as an environmental planning expert, I would get fed up with the cumbersome structures in which we worked, I am much more pleased now. Here, my position as an environmental consultant allows me - albeit within the pre-established lines of our parent company Alphanumerics - to act much more flexibly, and I can simply get more things done in less time.

Because you feel strongly about permanent staff training, I can closely follow the latest developments with regard to efficient use of space and act accordingly in my daily practice. The international coaches who confront me with cases from other cities every week are particularly useful. In fact, the ease with which I can communicate and exchange views with them thanks to the holograms and simultaneous translation robots still surprises me a little. The problems that I am presented with there and the stepby- step solutions we jointly look for challenge me to stay wide awake and optimize my own tasks time and again. I really look forward to occasionally work as an international coach myself within a few years, when I will have achieved my main performance indicators.

Last night, I rather feared I couldn’t be present here today. After work, I sprained my ankle on the electric scooter that I use for my short commute. But fortunately, thanks to the quick help of the local safety drone, which helped me up and ensured that a cold compress spray was ready upon returning home, I was able to recover quickly. I did not have to leave my chair at all, as the drone also alerted the food printer of my refrigerator, and I got a delicious vitaminized dinner last night. Just what I needed to be focused here today!