One promising thing about taking on two employees so close together is that, as a manager, I have hit something of a stride while training them. When I first brought K.Lo on board, I worried a lot about whether she was getting enough managerial attention, and then stopped worrying for the sake of maintaining my own managerial style, and some semblance of sanity. New employees don't tend to be very interactive, at least as far as holding a full conversation goes, and though many managerial guides on the market push the importance of excessive verbal interaction for early language development in the workplace, I had decided at some point that it was better to just do what comes naturally.

Regardless of my un-loquacious nature, managing a two-year employee forces quite a bit of verbal interaction, and I can't help but think N.Lo is benefiting from K.Lo's own training. The stories we read, the workplace conversations, and even employee reprimands inform N.Lo on a daily basis of workplace culture. K.Lo experienced a much quieter environment in her early days of employment, and I will be curious to see what the difference yields, in the short- and long-term, for N.Lo's own career.