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Hi Tom,

I'm glad I'm the first to leave a comment on your presentation at the 'Leaders in Dubai' event today.

First of all, I thoroughly enjoyed it, nay - I immensely enjoyed it, every minute of it but was thoroughly shocked at the person beside me who was fast asleep, snoring in fact.

I loved your concept about renaming HR and CTAO, Talent Development, etc, etc and remember voicing those same concepts about a year ago to my organization, basically from the point of view of giving the ppl who worked in HR a purpose to their work i.e. giving them a reason to get up each morning. Of course, it fell on deaf ears and I could definately hear some snickering in the background. Which also brought me to my conclusion that no matter what the department name was changed to, if the ppl who worked in it did not have the right attitude, it was never going to work.

I would like to sign-off by quoting WIKIPEDIA on the meaning of TAO, which is part of CTAO " In Chinese, the character TAO itself translates as "way," "path," or "route," or sometimes more loosely as "doctrine" or "principle" - Perhaps if HR ppl look upon their career as builders of a path or way to 'serve' their customers (employees), perhaps then we could see the true potential of HR really coming through and justifying our position at the head of the table.

Thanks again for reminding me again never to give up in my beliefs.

Regards
Frank

Posted by Frank Farrell at November 17, 2008 2:11 PM

Frank - someone sleeps during a TP presentation???!! - that has to be a first. Did you check his pulse? :- )

I had the immense pleasure of watching a ‘Tom gig’ of 4 successive, 90 minute sessions in one day in London in 2006 and I stayed wide awake for the 6 hours. I was hooked completely. I can only conclude this guy must have been at the hotel bar until the early hours the night before. I hope his company - they probably paid for his ticket - will ask him for a report of what Tom said. But I'm not bitter :-)

Posted by Trevor Gay at November 17, 2008 2:39 PM

Excellent presentation, pulled no punches (well almost none)got to the heart of the matter....I left very charged up to go out and K.I.S.S. my colleagues and : ) more!

Can I suggest weekly podcasts...(if you're not already),,,people (i.e. me) would pay for a weekly dose of straight talk and then not have to wait 6-12-24 months 'to be reminded of the things (I)already know'....until you come back through again

GREAT GREAT GREAT presentation...come back soon!

Posted by Peter DeBenedictis at November 18, 2008 8:38 AM

TP's on the 3rd line of the starting grid at http://www.leadersindubai.com/ - Excellent! TP would need to be involved in a huge disaster to move higher!

Posted by Mike L. at November 18, 2008 6:07 PM