Binge Thinking

So, back to the mic in the loo story - Ros Palmer

Three of our team recently returned from a two week to the States where they presented to over 150 enthusiastic and welcoming attendees.  It is safe to say that the team also loved it even when  Jules managed to forget that she had a super small, super powerful, mic attached to her shirt and went off for a ‘comfort break’.  We don’t need to go into details, but all the delegates gathered in the room found out exactly what kind of comfort Jules was looking for until her colleague Jo burst into the Ladies restrooms shouting ‘Jules stop. You are miked up and live!’.  

Jules likes to look at the whole episode as an excellent example of how she was able to overcome the hindering thoughts in her head as she re-entered the room to take the stage again and managed to replace them with helpful thoughts.  These started off with, “Well I’m a cockney and those who can actually understand me will perhaps just think that is what we do” and turned ever more positive as she used the embarrassment to her benefit by having the delegates engage in an exercise to turn their thoughts to the positive, whatever the situation!

It seems that we are no longer divided by such a common language and even Jules and her cockney lingo was understood.  Ian (northern from Middlesborough for those of you unfortunate not to have met him), even managed to have translators from three countries understand and thus translate what he was saying on a recent charity trip he undertook to Macedonia.  Mind you, he was focusing so hard on his perfect diction and making himself understood that when it came to the questions and answers section he did find himself at a disadvantage as he had forgotten to wear his headphones.  Consequently he could not hear the first question translated into English for him to answer.  Again, not to be hindered by such an oversight, he choose a question in his head, nodded a lot then answered it and then discreetly picked up the headphones.  The audience seemed delighted so it must have been good advice (and a good question not to mention excellent head waggling!). 

Don’t you just love seamlessly working on the global stage?

Till the next entry.  Think on.