Davos Quest Board Filler
Down the Winters one reporter revels in his Davos jaunts. CNN's Richard Quest used a gimmick early on [see 2018's eg]. And continues with it to this day. Which is good news for us sellers, as there's often a decent tip from each year's flavour.
Audience interaction flows, prompting reaction aplenty.
He takes a traditional flip chart pad easel, here with whiteboard showing. Writes some framing title. And encourages each Grand Fromage to scribe their wisdom.
This time's slant, "what gives you hope?"
Asking for one-word answers. In their preferred pen colour from standard pack choice.
His original prompt shown up top.
Without any guidance, the first respondent writ large, slap bang centre, and with fairly normal handwriting albeit a possibly revealing long curly tail there.
Eager attendees braved the cold and added in during the week.
As more interviewees took part, a modification.
As the week ended, wincing at how close the board might have come to being in small or large part 'wiped', the final work proudly displayed.
The accumulated insight of around thirty 'luminaries'. Each probably the very kind of 'leader' that has got us into precisely the onrushing/fabricated (you choose) existential mess meritocratic capitalist freedom faces.
Still. Any seller that's done a 'round-the-room at the start of a workshop type session will recognise the drill.
In a similar sense, an advantage adorns later response. Seeing what and how others before have done brings both bias and opportunity.
When you've captive contributors throughout, you are permitted to ask for amendments though.
Note here, you get a variety of writing styles. Some angled orientations. A smattering of underlining. One person amplified another's tip ('I'll be a little bit unoriginal and circle Economy'). Astonishingly there's but a single symbol; ♡. And a lone soul couldn't resist trashing the spec with two bullets of their own.
All add to the thrill of the end point of assessment.
With our prospect, as here, we'd get to answer the question posed.
In this case, is there hope?
And in either case, what do you do now, together?