Alpha Papa Boardroom Flipchart Skills
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Aha!
Alan Partridge hosting a siege became the radio DJ's first big screen outing in 2013.
About fifteen minutes in, there's a scene we can call Boardroom.
Our hero Alan bursts in to the management meeting of the new owners of his radio station. As seen up-top.
Having told his late-night show colleague, Pat, he'd stick up for him, when he sees his own name on the list of possible firings, his volte-face is swift.
Note the contents of the flipchart. A kind of mini-mind map. Pretty uninspiring. I trust your sheets don't look like this. All one colour ink. Buzzword bingo. And not 'you' in the centre.
Still, luckily Alan grabs the initiative,
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Have you though, ever practised how you flip the chart? Should you ...?
At least Alan knows to use a new colour. And who doesn't love a big thick red.
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Arh. Never write with back to audience. Never stand face-on to easel.
But do ...
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... fill that page.
Which, as we see through glimpse later in the denouement, is what sticks.
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As the new brooms pose for a team snap.
Which away from the comedy value of not checking what's behind you when having your photo taken, is a decent reminder that you may well leave the room, but your message need not.
And I remember the days fondly when deliberately crafting a page that would be written part-way through the pitch. So when leaving, I'd purposely bring it back to the front. Leaving it on display for whoever arrived next, to see and discuss.
And I know of more than one occasion when this specifically helped lead to a deal.
Aha, indeed.
Corner coming up.
You never know what's round the corner.
More corners, usually.
Imagine a world without corners.
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Everyone would be going round in circles.
Wow.