It was 7:45pm on a Friday night, October 8th 2010, 6 top executives and young professionals gathered at the Safeway auditorium at Pleasanton for the CAAEN 2010 Annual Event with this year's theme "Inspirational Ladership Affecting Positive Change".
It's a question and answer session with 6 senior executives from start-up companies to public listed entities. Several take-aways that I got from this meeting are as follows:
1) Use metaphors to illustrate your point
One of the executive who make every single point with a metaphor and it sticks in my mind so vividly. He definitely out performed the 5 other executives in the way he presented his answers.
2) Use the word "We" instead of "You"
One of the executives responded questions with many words using you should do that, you should do this, your manager should do this and that..... I found it rather annoying as it's a general human nature that we do not like to be directed.
So I improvised, that maybe if we use the word "We" should do this and that... it will create rapport with audiene.
3) Breath of knowledge
One executive probably over 50 years old who doesn't seem to be tech savvy... was talking about facebook and amazon kindle. I almost couldn't believe it!! But he make a good point of reading through Amazon Kindle, you'll have thousands of books in one location and you can browse through them quickily.
I recalled my Senior Business Leader (Judy Fong) once told me that we need to read in breath to widen our knowledge and not solely focus on one or two topic of interest. This will enable us to be able to blend in and converse with others in a social or networking setting.
My conclusion, I'm getting an Amazon Kindle and subscribing to Business Week and few others magazines.
While these are the top 3 learning points I inferred from the meeting, they obviously talked and discussed on various topics on innovation, communication, managing change and leadership.
Overall an good 2 hours seminars that went by like a flash of lights.
Cheers,
Kian
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