Kilts

A quote from the latest newsletter of the company I did my (money well spent) Prince 2 training:

Last month, Advantage Learning was selected to present a paper at the biggest gathering of Project Managers in the World.

Over 3,000 people attended the PMI Global Congress in Washington DC and the headline speaker was President Clinton.

So it's not your average trade show and it was an honour for Advantage to be invited to present PRINCE2 from among hundreds of possible speakers and topics around the world.

We decided to give it 100%.

We hired a booth, decked it out in tartan headed to the kilt shops on Edinburgh's High Street. As an Englishman in a kilt I thought I would burst into flames but, as a true believer in shameless selling, Jo and I pulled on the plaid and got on the plane...

We didn't expect America to know much about PRINCE2 but we thought their knowledge of Scotland might be a bit higher.

We were disappointed. In descending order of interest the best questions were:

3 - "Why are you wearing those kilts" ?

2 - "Are they from Australia" (more than once) and, easily the winner;

1 - "Are you from Pennsylvania, because you're like the Amish people." I had to ask for that one again, just make sure...

Good grief.

posted by Blakey UK @ 9:45 pm