If I had the power to re-name days, I would call the last two “Fine Tuning Day” and “Culmination Day”. With the final presentations on Tuesday night, each team spent many hours improving their PowerPoint slide content as well as rehearsing the actual delivery.
As usual, the leadership team has been committed to each team’s success. In this case, we practiced our presentations for all 6 of the leaders on Monday evening. Adaptability is one of the key characteristics needed for a GLOBASE member and these past days have followed suit. The best room available to us for our practice presentation in front of the leadership team was in a sort of computer lab with an employee at the desk and the occasional person walking in and out and pausing to observe the odd mix of foreigners. The back wall that we faced as presenters was all glass, which was a bit distracting with people milling around and shopping outside. As usual, each of us had the opportunity to allow ourselves to be distracted, or choose to be flexible with the setting and focus as best we could. In the end, the leaders gave us a balance of encouragement (to keep plugging away) and coaching on how to “fine tune”.
Tuesday evening was quite the event, which met in a large meeting hall in the La Palm Hotel. It was exciting to see the clients from all four companies attend, but they also brought some of their employees, friends, and family. Other contacts we had made from trade organizations and the cocoa industry attended as well. In all, there were about 50 of us with an even mix of Ghanaian business people and Kelley folks. The leadership team gave an outstanding presentation about IU and the Kelley School of Business. All four teams presented the best I have seen. However, the best part of the whole evening was when each of the clients from Emefa Jewellery, Kingsbridge Microfinance, All Pure Nature, and Aid To Artisans Ghana took the microphone. Some confessed to having doubts about the programs value, but all sang the praises of Kelley and the GLOBASE program, while celebrating the valuable consulting they had received and the friendships they had built. Does it get any better than that?
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