HK!CC

What a waste of our $ and time today. HKICC, the h0ng k0ng
International C0@aching C0mmuniTy, hosted a conference in Shanghai
this afternoon. It's topic was about Executive Coaching community in
China and how this approach will help Chinese biz management. There
were 3 sessions started at 2pm, every 45 minutes. Dinner to follow.
I did not get anything out of it!!! The panelists, man...., could not
contribute to anything that I did not know or worse, nothing. OK
except the 'client-side' panelist who told us her experience in broken
English. Then all the sessions did not have a Chinese guest speaker;
rather, it was all foreigners and one session was from a Japanese
woman who could not speak English. O yeah, the conference got this
American woman all the way from the US to tell what essential skills
needed to be an Executive Coach. Wasted my time in the room sweating
because someone didn't know how to turn the heat down from 35C. You
see, I wasted one of the most beautiful sunny, blue sky days indoor
thinking I was conned. O that American woman couldn't delivery what
needed in the 45 minutes alloted. What kind of a presenter or a coach
are you? If you can't do it in 45 minutes, you are not capable.

Later at dinner, this same American woman was making a speech; She was
the guest of honour and the "featured" speaker from the conference
organizer. She had to read from script in her hands. And at one
point, she couldn't even make out the words on the cards!!! So who
wrote it? Her speech was like someone reading a paragraph in "mono"
tone.

There went our RMB 1,200 for the conference for two people; at least,
we didn't have to worry dinner tonight. Tex Mex night at the hotel
buffet.

After sharing our notes, iron-wife and I had nothing good to say about
this conference. We said "NO" to attend again by the same organizer
with a long page of comment. In short, we said "This conference had
nothing to do about "Executive Coach" influencing China business.
This conference felt like a business chasing scheme by your
organization yet you have no idea what you are doing. In your
sessions, there was no single Chinese speaker. There are lots of good
coaches in Beijing and in Shanghai; please do you own proper research
to seek out the best people here to present. I did not get anything
out of it; ." We wrote blunt. Iron-wife was funny. She got a hotel
staff to hand in our feedback forms with specific instructions of
waiting for a few minutes after we left first. Ha!

And that my friends, we wasted a gorgeous afternoon stuck in a smoke-
filled hotel listening to absolutely rubbish sessions, from 1:30pm to
6:00pm. That was a lot of dough, RMB 1,200 just to have a Tex Mex
buffet. Too bad I already had my chicken wings at lunch. Meat out....

Looking forward to the gym tomorrow. Besides walking all over
Shanghai the last few days, I didn't go to the gym. Time to get back
into it.