by Kathy Morris, Vice President and Executive Producer
23. June 2009 10:40
Dateline: Frankfurt, Germany
Event: Global Leadership Council Meeting for 200 top partners
Room Set Up: Six people to a round table with electricity run to every table and a computer hub run to every table to enable each of the attending partners to have access to the internet throughout the meeting.
Challenge: Enter the Keynote Speaker, Benjamin Zander. He surveys the room set up and says to the client, I will need theater-style seating for my presentation. There is a 15-minute break between the content presentations that afternoon and his keynote address. The client and the hotel perceive the challenge as unhooking all 33 tables, taking them out of the room and resetting 200 chairs. (They further envision the nightmare associated with resetting the room for the following day.)
This is where possibility thinking kicks in. There was an open space between the first row of tables and the stage that would accommodate approximately 90 chairs. There was a space in the back of the room that would accommodate the remaining 110. Pushing all of the 33 tables to the back of the room would require a massive effort. But disconnecting just the first row of tables—six in total—lifting them over the intervening tables and setting them down in the back of the room in the open space would take coordination, but a minimum of effort. Then the chairs could be walked forward and set.
The break ran 15 minutes as scheduled and the keynote address on “Creativity--Thinking Outside the Box” began on time.
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Kathy Morris has spent the last 10 of her 35 years in the communications business with Quicksilver. Her unique ability to rapidly ramp up on a client’s business, then present targeted information through the creative efforts of the production team she manages have been key contributors to the growth of Quicksilver’s live meeting and webcasting offerings.
