The next decade....what's in store?

I coulda slept late

Lawks, if is anything I dislike is being dragged out of bed and don't get any reward. Probably the only reward was getting to see the dog Penny earlier than normal.

Mr Smith could have just sold us the manual, and the organizers could have halved the fee, because there was nothing there of substance.

Foreign consultants are way over rated.

Ok. Reached there on time, chatted with a couple people I knew, had some tea (mi fraid of hotel coffee. From experience, invariably it's a server who knows nothing about brewing proper coffee who is sent to make it. Those of you who are coffee drinkers can probably count on one finger how many times you've had good tasting coffee at a conference).

Sat at a table, said hello to the people sat next to me. Then the presentation begun.

First he told a story about taking 15 boys sailing from Miami to the Bahamas. He said it was relevant to the theme of the session, but blow me down with a feather if I could see the real relevance. OK. Maybe there was a little to do with needing something like a compass in business. But he took too long with the story, went off on too many tangents and so he didn't get into the session really until about 20 mins after he started.

Then after he got into the session, he showed a bunch of slides from US organizations of some of the practices they have. Well, most of them might not be workable in the Jamaican context, so why show them? He coulda put that in a handout for us to read!

There were 10 points to follow in creating high performance organizations. He only got through 7 because of these irrelevants inserts. He gave some group exercises for each table to do, and then gave us 2 minutes to discuss!!!!!

He didn't go to Adult Learning Principles 101 clearly! Adults want discussion. Adults want practical things they can take back to their organization and implement NOW. I was talking with a lady who joined our table late and she agreed with me.

Now I would love to have looked at the evaluation forms. I rated the presenter and the content as Fair. I rated the facility, administration etc as Good. I wonder if, because Mr Smith is a caucasian American, the participants gave him very high marks? Well if they had any sense and looked through the humour and guffaws, they would realize that they left with a manual.

The organizers coulda just mail the manual to me and I coulda slept late!

Posted by yamfoot at August 29, 2005 07:52 PM