Conference/ Training Session

I have always wondered what people feel when they are sitting at a conference or a training session. I don't think its just me, but there are quite a few others at the corners trying to hide their yawns, or speaking quietly on their phones or checking their mails and some sleeping quite openly (sometimes snoring loudly!!).

Well, can't say that this is true for every single conference or training- in most cases this is true. Unless there is a bunch of science geeks with their heads together pondering over some really complicated and illegible rocket design or some newly discovered micro organism, I have never seen these sessions holding people's attention for more than half an hour, especially if the communication is one sided. And, since my MBA days, it feels like I have entered a never ending session of PPTs. 

We spend so much time preparing presentations, many of our performances are judged on how well we can use the special features of Microsoft Power Point, but are equally uninterested in other people's presentations. Feels like you are sitting in a theater, forced to watch a Chinese movie without a subtitle. Actually, the subtitle is standing right in front trying his best to impart his knowledge, but after the introductions and the Agenda, your brain for some reason refuses to take it in. Its quite strange, that people who don't spend even 24 minutes in a day of 24 hours on thinking anything other than their immediate universe, become so imaginative that they can practically draw pink elephants with little straw hats coming out of their ears!!! Literally. If you don't believe me, take a peek at the last pages of the notebooks used in a any such sessions. Mine has creative vines and a beautiful scenery of a hut, mountains in the distance complete with a river. Oh, and not to forget the trees and the fence.

So, any such fellow attendees, who have to endure such phenomenons in the near future, stock up on your notebooks and pens and give full rein to your imagination. Who knows, we might get the next Harry Potter out of one such session?? After all, J K Rowling did get her block buster idea at work ;) Or you might get the idea of your next blog topic- just like I did...