New black belt stars

We're nearing the end of another Black Belt, and I expect to see some of this lot on stage some time soon after a particularly operatic version of Robbie's Angels at the end of our quiz night.

We found Pam's spectacularly jargon-filled description of her outing to a German Spa very enlightening, and were impressed by her creative use of fruit to illustrate her points ... And also v.useful for illustrating cultural differences after I managed to translate 'German Spa' said in Pam's cultured tones into my "I'm from Yorkshire, you know" equivalent of 'jam on spa'. (I did think it was a bit of an odd subject!)

I'd also like to reassure regular readers that standards are as high as ever on Black Belt, and we did NOT award a quiz point to the team who described the purpose of the Sears model as "to justify internal comms' existence."

It was particularly reassuring that our new social media slot is working well, and all our teams knew what RSS stands for. Unlike one previous group, pre-social media slot days (you know who you are), who just guessed wildly and came up with such likely gems as 'Reuters syndication system.'

Disappointingly, however, everyone found our new additions to the question list far too easy. In particular, it took fractions of a second for people to correctly answer "Who does Liam think fancies him?" (everyone). And one team added 'Everyone AND Sue' for good measure.

Much chocolate has been consumed, and a good time has been had by all ...

Sue

Comments

[Felicia Macdonald]

Such a good course. We had an excellent time, and I'm pretty confident about using the "we" word.

I have promised to set up a meeting, for London communicators at least, to take things forward. Of course, anybody else is more than welcome!

OK, this is my first ever post to a blog, so I'm going to sign out now. I have a distinct feeling I'm not being very audience aware! I won't be introducing blogs to our CEO just yet...

[Sue]

Hi Felicia, in my humble opinion I don't think you have to agonise about your audience when you comment, you just get to say what you think. So here's to this being the first of many times we get to hear your thoughts - welcome to the blogosphere!