Today we had a seminar about bottled water for MKT1001. The first run-through was dire. Used the running order on Grant's email - started with the history of the market, moving forwards to the Mahalo video finishing with One Water video. I did ALL the talking. This group is often uncommunicative but this session seemed punctuated by long periods where everyone just stared at their shoes. Only a couple of people actually volunteered information. Very tedious.
I have to repeat the session with my 5pm group (always there grudgingly as they hate the slot). I was initially dreading doing the topic with them, but when I arrived I was delighted to see a larger than usual crowd.
On the spur of the moment I decided to run the Mahalo video first to introduce the topic. I followed it up with a discussion about their own current purchasing behaviour and then brought the history in. They were very communicative and it went fine. Still fairly quick - we were done in 40 minutes, but it felt OK, like we had covered some good ground. Also they were happy since on this dark snowy night they were done a little early. I was happy too!
Why so different? There are definitely some more lively personalities in the second group.
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