05-30-2007: It's How Good You Want to Be

On the third and final day of the Foo & Pullen presentation skills workshop, the message is loud and clear. It is about YOU. And as Paul Arden proclaimed - "It's not how good you are. It's how good you want to be."

05-29-2007: Focus, Focus

The second day of the Foo & Pullen presentation skills workshop is about focus, focus and more focus on the finer aspects of presenting. Or in other words - Purpose, Preparation & Practice. Repeat three times. And then repeat again and again and again and......

05-28-2007: Positives & Negatives

The intensive 3-day Foo & Pullen presentation skills workshop kicks off with an impromptu introduction by the participants and a list of the positives and negatives analyzed of our presentation skills.

04-19-2007: A Smile in the Mind

That sly feeling of elatedness and accomplishment crept into my mind as I saw this ad at the bus stop first thing in the morning waiting for the bus. Not the best of ads ever made, but I guess it's something that puts a smile in your mind, when you think about the innumerable rounds of brainstormings and client meetings that went over it in the first place.

For a better stirring of the mind go for this 'Smile in the Mind'.

04-03-2007: Talk, Talk

It was one of those lucky days of not being in office, but doing an offsite workshop. Got to meet and do some thinking and fun stuff with a bunch of smart people from our offices in the Asia-Pacific region. Underwent some warm undercurrent of brain tremors. Took some bathroom breaks to not get caught in the middle of a sitting-in-the-meeting-pretending-to-be-taking-notes siesta.

Overall, it was a fun and fantastic gathering of some funny, friendly and fine ad folks. Something like Hugh McLeod's 'Echo Chamber'. Talk, Talk and more talk. But definitely not cheap talk.