I found out at work yesterday that I have been selected to attend a 5-day Strategic Planning Forum to be held on the Gold Coast at the end of March.
I made my application (which consisted of an interview on paper eg. "Tell us why we should select you", "What can you personally bring to the forum" etc) and a case study to highlight a current business issue/challenge in December last year and I didn't think much more about it until my manager approached me yesterday to say that I had been selected!
I've read the draft agenda and it is FULL ON!! I have to arrive on the Sunday and the conference starts on the Monday morning. All the days start at 8am, finish around 5:30pm, have 45 mins for lunch with dinner starting at 7pm! I don't leave until the following Saturday!
Even though I'm sure it will be lots of hard work, it should be a rewarding week as I'll get to meet lots of people from other business units and get to apply some strategic planning techniques to actual challenges my company faces as some of the case studies written as part of the application process will be used during the week.
And the slightly cool thing is, I get to stay here.
2 comments:
That's fantastic Lou - I knew you'd get invited.
So much for a quick surf before conference...
Looking forward to seeing you on Friday :-)
Oooooh! Nice hotel dude!
Hope the sting from the barsteward jellyfish has subsided now - sounded nasty...
Hope you got the mail with the arrival dates on - I'm on the lookout for the biggest carton of PG tips in the world for Jo!
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