I've just been to the Triple i conference at Whittlebury Hall. Unlike the last conference I attended this one had a reasonable volume of attendees who weren't either speakers or suppliers. I had been asked to speak on Talent Management. Fortunately I was speaking just before lunch on the first day so I got it out of the way. Practice prevents p*ss poor performance and fortunately that was the case. Gary, my coach, came over on Saturday evening and we refined the script and then over the next day or so I practiced it a number of times. This paid off. I sailed through the presentation and garnered a number of compliments afterwards which is most gratifying and suitable payback for the effort put in. If anyone is interested in the script from the presentation, let me know and I'm happy to send it out.
The conference was sponsored by about 10 suppliers which meant you had to sit down and spend time with them. I thought it would be a complete waste of time, but at least 2 of the suppliers have products that might prove useful. There's no getting away from the suppliers because not only do you have pre-prescribed chats with them all at regular occasions, they also sponsor tables during mealtimes where each meal you find you've been moved to a different tables to give another set of suppliers an oppportunity to talk to you!
I met some very nice people though amoungst the delegates and certainly opportunities to expand my network. I shall be picking up on that over the next couple of days. I shall be very glad to spend more than a few days at work each week over the next month, I don't feel that I've been on-site enough with all the extra-curricular activities I've had going on, so I need to correct that fast.
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