Dear Friends
A couple of days back I received a call from the CLO summit organizers. A CLO summit is going to be held in Mumbai in the month of September 2015.
The lady on the phone informed me that they would love me to be their speaker on ROI subject provided, I SPONSOR OR PAY to SPEAK. She also mentioned that this is a good way of marketing yourself (when I had not asked).
Pay? I was shocked. I was aware that people pay to get speaking opportunity, but I least expected to get a call from them. Especially when I did not even apply for a paid opportunity.
Though I was very happy that ROI is been considered as a topic for the summit, I equally was disappointed for this pay to speak opportunity. She further stated that 90% people who speak in the summit are from corporates are invited guest speakers, and the remaining 10% were from consulting experience who are generally paid speakers.
And because I came from consulting background I need to pay. I am sure many would be willing to take this opportunity.
Of course! I politely declined.
The mere thought that I need to pay to share my knowledge and expertise in the ROI subject especially for the CLO summit was not acceptable to me.
I realized a couple of things when you are asking for sponsorship
1. Are we really interested in sharing knowledge or we just want to market ourselves.
2. I would have been more than happy to share my knowledge had they invited me as a guest speaker.
3. Inspite of this being a CLO summit, though it is the need of the hour, ROI is still neglected issue.
4. Are these summits a marketing platforms instead of knowledge sharing and HR people meeting and learning from each other.
Yes everyone has a choice and I choose mine.
What would have been your choice...
Do write your comments on wagle.sonali@gmail.com
Lv
Sonali...
A couple of days back I received a call from the CLO summit organizers. A CLO summit is going to be held in Mumbai in the month of September 2015.
The lady on the phone informed me that they would love me to be their speaker on ROI subject provided, I SPONSOR OR PAY to SPEAK. She also mentioned that this is a good way of marketing yourself (when I had not asked).
Pay? I was shocked. I was aware that people pay to get speaking opportunity, but I least expected to get a call from them. Especially when I did not even apply for a paid opportunity.
Though I was very happy that ROI is been considered as a topic for the summit, I equally was disappointed for this pay to speak opportunity. She further stated that 90% people who speak in the summit are from corporates are invited guest speakers, and the remaining 10% were from consulting experience who are generally paid speakers.
And because I came from consulting background I need to pay. I am sure many would be willing to take this opportunity.
Of course! I politely declined.
The mere thought that I need to pay to share my knowledge and expertise in the ROI subject especially for the CLO summit was not acceptable to me.
I realized a couple of things when you are asking for sponsorship
1. Are we really interested in sharing knowledge or we just want to market ourselves.
2. I would have been more than happy to share my knowledge had they invited me as a guest speaker.
3. Inspite of this being a CLO summit, though it is the need of the hour, ROI is still neglected issue.
4. Are these summits a marketing platforms instead of knowledge sharing and HR people meeting and learning from each other.
Yes everyone has a choice and I choose mine.
What would have been your choice...
Do write your comments on wagle.sonali@gmail.com
Lv
Sonali...
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