Hi guys..
"Aaila.. What you doing here..??" one fellow asked me in a Finance Seminar last week. Embarrassed to hear that i felt a divine enlightenment to write this post after a long time.
If anyone had enjoyed attending most boring of seminars then I must say im one of those so called talented freaks. Being in consulting / Finance field, seminars come as part and borrowed parcel of life. Few days back I attended one more seminar and it turned out to be a good outing for me! Till now regular attendance in Seminars has given me some material to type down thoughts, views, feelings, opinions, judgments (Whatever jatra u assume..)
- If you want to experience how people look at a guy they think he's in wrong place then simply attend a finance seminar wearing your fav jeans. I swear they'll make you feel like a beggar, no matter even if you’re wearing a Red Tag Levis' or Lance Lee coopers.
- Do not act like a satellite looking here and there or you'll end finding more satellites.
- Speakers generally are people who explain the matter and then explain why the matter explained should not be explained the way it’s explained. For instance, in a tax seminar speaker said Section xxx talks about this and that but that 'this and that' can not be 'this and that' as 'this and that' is not the way 'this and that' is.
- People tend to look at their watches more in Seminars than they look at it some other times. One should really wear nice watch. Aint mate
- Most of us always expect the big guns to deliver a proficient speech no matter even if we’ve heard them speak same words in earlier seminars. People never blame them for lack of new words or same joke but blame the pathetic organizer for paying him.
- Seminars are new method of ‘networking’. No matter how much u r interested in speaker, ur satellite will always catch some people offering unwanted business cards.
- Tax seminars are most interesting ones as per me. They never conclude but elaborate only to end the session by standard sentences like- “Participants may deliberate on this issue”, “Whether it would be available or rejected?”, “A question arises, and no one has any answer, hence participants may further argue..”, etc etc.
- People attend seminars to find answers and end up with more queries. Cause generally elaboration in seminars is exaggeration of thoughts. I recently heard one speaker arguing with a fellow over whether common streets where a milkman operates generally, be called as his place of business. I even saw some few (including me) noting down the case law on that. Oops, where’s the note..!
Above list is relative; different for different people. However, whenever my boss asks what u learned in Seminar (Being co. sponsored), I’ve only one answer- “I can elaborate on that sir...!”
5 comments:
Nice one...! to read amidst these days where the CPE Hour deadline for 2008 is fast cornering.
Being in the same profession even I have experianced the same. Perhaps a bit more coz I have been attending CPE seminars that are mandatory for last two years now.
The funiest of them were the IFRS seminars where the speakers were told to be the 'so called' eminant personalities of that field, who have written tonnes of literature on the topic.
But in Seminar ... they talked abt stray things like... from US Recession to run down to the latest flik -'The World is Flat'. No one understood what the speaker was upto.
I concluded that CPE Seminar spokesperson should be the one who has the talent of pretending to be giving & talking a lot about the topic but eventually ends up delivering none to the audiances.
In short, ensures that the 'know how' still remains with him and is not passed on to the fellow-professionals !!!
good one mate!! keep on writing! only one comment on ramanand's comment: Buddy thats what his (the speaker's job is) if he delivers the knowledge next time they will get some one else to talk.....so the morale is keep on attending atleast the food i great isnt it! unfortunately u guys being in India u guys wont be getting good wines over here we get that as well, so u can enjoy atleast that part of the seminars i.e. of course if u have test for the wines!!!
Brilliant, u have given a fresh perspective to look into these seminars..these are things all of us notice but never analyse it from an angle or depth you have done......gr8 work
good...seminars is one more place u see some studious gals...thnx to them till date I have managed to sit for some of the seminars...offlate for networking..moreever good to see NL comment... Rama as always elaborative !!
Well another master piece!!!
Ur blog reminded me of a seminar i attended jst few days back..n all i remember is we were getting breaks for eating something or the other after every one hour..so we ended up eating more than learning anything :)
Thanks for taking down to the lane of some sweet as well as yawning memories...
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