NB – this is adapted from an ‘enrichment lecture’ I gave on board the Quantum of the Seas in late 2022. Some of the comments are trip-specific – but the point remains the same 🙂 It was on the old Sun Princess, back around this time in 2015. I was in an elevator on the…
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“… even before Covid-19, buffets were under fire as potential petri-dishes of infection…”
“I didn’t want to intrude. But maybe I should have.”
“Over the years there have been so many mentors, bosses, employees, and friends I’ve made in this game … too many to single them out”
“Then there was the couple who had signed a lease on their new ‘gourmet hot dog and donut shoppe’ in the heart of a tourist town – just 2 weeks before the Covid-19 shutdowns began.”
“There will be threats in 2021. We all know that. But there will also be opportunities.”
“… public speaking isn’t about the speaker – it’s about the public …”
“US President Abraham Lincoln spoke for just two minutes. But that two minutes was one of the most powerful rallying-cries in American history – the Gettysburg Address.”
Every trainer or educator starts out with an idea of what they would like to impart, a rough outline of how they want to impart it, and a basic concept of what they want their trainees to do with the knowledge once it has been imparted. Of course, many trainers never get much beyond that…
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