The amount of meetings I go to is crazy. Not only is it usually last minute and lengthy, it is mostly boring. I'm not used to Ghanaian style presenting, I can't maintain my attention as it sometimes takes hours to explain a simple concept. We spent 30 minutes on one slide recently, it had about 2 bullet points on it. On the plus side, the descriptive stories and anecdotes can be entertaining, just after 5 hours I'm usually happy to skip some of the finer details...
So my last meeting was a training session that I have attended at least 4 times already, but I'm more there for 'support' or just 'representing' the organisation. So I amused myself. I did a small study, with the results shown in the following picture;
So in summary;
the presenter took a call while presenting 3 times
the presenter wasn't listening once (this is pretty impressive, must have been an off day)
someone falls asleep: 0. awww, a rarity too, but I was up the front and I'm sure a sneaky nap was had without me seeing. It's the whole point!
the power went out twice (which means projector goes off)
twice I laughed when nobody else was laughing, and sadly, three times everyone laughed but me, I had no idea what the joke was...
only five times did we defer from the actual topic of the training for at least 15 minutes. This is probably a record, especially for the presenters as they love a good story, laugh and the sound of their own voice (there's always one presenter...isn't there!)
I guess it was a small training, because only 7 people answered their phone in the training 'quietly'... and by quietly I mean I could hear the conversation, or I could see them ducking under their chair, or leaning back, or looking up so their voice traveled upwards, and therefore was 'not' disrupting.... that's a personal favourite trait here. The quiet answer of the phone....
We started 2 hours late which wasn't too bad, and the last person arrived 3 hours late which was pretty good too. So all in all, I managed to amuse myself, and it was a good meeting.
So my last meeting was a training session that I have attended at least 4 times already, but I'm more there for 'support' or just 'representing' the organisation. So I amused myself. I did a small study, with the results shown in the following picture;
So in summary;
the presenter took a call while presenting 3 times
the presenter wasn't listening once (this is pretty impressive, must have been an off day)
someone falls asleep: 0. awww, a rarity too, but I was up the front and I'm sure a sneaky nap was had without me seeing. It's the whole point!
the power went out twice (which means projector goes off)
twice I laughed when nobody else was laughing, and sadly, three times everyone laughed but me, I had no idea what the joke was...
only five times did we defer from the actual topic of the training for at least 15 minutes. This is probably a record, especially for the presenters as they love a good story, laugh and the sound of their own voice (there's always one presenter...isn't there!)
I guess it was a small training, because only 7 people answered their phone in the training 'quietly'... and by quietly I mean I could hear the conversation, or I could see them ducking under their chair, or leaning back, or looking up so their voice traveled upwards, and therefore was 'not' disrupting.... that's a personal favourite trait here. The quiet answer of the phone....
We started 2 hours late which wasn't too bad, and the last person arrived 3 hours late which was pretty good too. So all in all, I managed to amuse myself, and it was a good meeting.
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