Client out of control! Need help!

[Ed Brenegar]

I agree with Ralph's perspective below.  If you need an out, say to the
boss, that participants will not be in a sit-in-chairs, listen to a speech
mode, and therefore will be a great disservice to his speaker.  If he wants
his money's worth out of the presentation, save it for a more appropriate
time.  Might work, might not.

Ed Brenegar
Leadership Resources
edb3 at msn.com
828/693-0720

-----Original Message-----
From: ralphsc <ralphsc at EARTHLINK.NET>
To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.IDBSU.EDU <OSLIST at LISTSERV.IDBSU.EDU>
Date: Friday, October 09, 1998 2:08 PM
Subject: Re: Client out of control! Need help!


>Chris,
>
>Speakers are death to open space.  Put another way, open space is death
>to speaking presentations.  Others here may put things in more spiritual
>terms, but that about sums it up for me.  I ran an OS once that had a
>speaker at lunch.  Couldn't for the life of me convince the client to
>drop the idea.  The guy came in and couldn't figure out why nobody cared
>what he said.  It was a very uncomfortable experience.  Never again.
>
>Ralph
>