Program Recruitment Talk at Maha Bodhi School

Maha Bodhi is a huge school located in the east. It was a wet Wednesday morning and the school has requested my team and I to conduct an assembly talk to spark interest to the kids and hoping that they signed up for the YES! program.

For that session, I planned to to something different from my previous talks. As we were given only 15minutes, I removed a few elements from my talk and hope that I can hit the mark within that 15minutes. Cutting corners has never yield results.

There and then, it happened. It happened one of those days where everything do not seem to work. The videos in the slides were not functioning(and it's the same set of slides that i used previously) and my wireless presenter was not functioning, resulting in me going back and forth to the computer to move the slides.

I was honestly disappointed with myself after that talk. My colleague told me that it was good. Deep down, I knew I have not given my all.Apart from the technical matters, I felt that I did not do more to engage the crowd like i usually did. I broke one of my training commandments; Rapport is the bridge to acceptance of information. I made a conscious mistake of discounting the rapport building part and forced information through and through.

The school was targeting 40 students and they hoped that the talk will help them get that numbers. A few days later, my colleague said that there were 50 students and now the school is trying to filter the numbers down to 40. Was that a success? I don't know. Personally, I think I doubt my assembly talk made any impact.