“and now a few words from our sponsor” (audible groans I as ascend the stage)
… or “Les, we thought we’d kick of the training session -as you’re here- with a few words from you”
I think I’ve been introduced this way over a hundred times in my management career. I was rarely warned, and rarely prepared. But I coped. At the beginning badly, but as time and experience wore on, I coped better.… Read more