One Step Ahead 2 – Chapter presentation – Part 2/3

 

One week before of the Big day, my chapter sent a promotional email, announcing the event. I couldn’t avoid sharing it with my personal Social Media. 

This is me:

And this was the other speaker, yes, you can google it, he is an actor, bishop, writer, and professional speaker. 

My thoughts at this moment “Oh my gosh! This will be more challenging that expected”

The big day arrived, as the session was scheduled in business time, I was expecting about 50-60 people, in a training environment.

When I arrived at the place, I saw that. 

I asked my only POC in the chapter about the number of attendees, about 130…at this first moment I wanted to disappear.

First TODO, test the computer…as always, issues with the connections, how that was possible, I tested hundred times at home, with different monitors, friends projectors…and as always. Murphy’s law.

After, I observed a camera; I asked if they are going to prepare as a webinar, or share in someplace, my POC explained that they were going to test it for the first time. Again, I wanted to disappear for the second time. I wasn’t aware of that.

The moment arrived; I did one step ahead and did my presentation in the stipulated time.

After the presentation, my tablemates congratulated me. 

We had an amazing lunch and networking time, and then a professional speaker started his speech. Wow huge a difference! Then, I’ve realized that I was lucky to start first; else, I really would have disappeared. 

Lesson Learned 3 - Don't assume anything

Lesson Learned 4 - Be prepared for technical issues.  

Lesson Learned 5 - Challenging opportunities make me grow.