I suppose it had to happen eventually!  We’ve been rolling out a lovely piece of work for one of our banking clients that has involved a prop box.  In that box is a whole wonderland of toys, props, and things to help our delegates think symbolically about the value they add from a service context.  Swords, bloomers, feather boas, thick glasses…the list goes on!

In fact, we played a really funny joke on Clint (our account manager) about it, even when we were presenting to our (very) senior clients during the pitch.  We included a really large pair of bloomers, and a really really large bra in the box he presented to them, and we were all in stitches while he tried to find the right metaphors as he pulled them out of the box (gotta put on your ‘big girl panties’ when things get rough, and adding ’support’ to the sales taem….you get the point).

Anyway, we landed the deal, and are in the execution phase.  Our trainers are travelling the country, obviously going through airport security, with their box of tricks!  Most times they got through with no issues, but dear Tracy Olivier, our KZN-based trainer was not so lucky, and has issued a heads-up to all trainers on the circuit right now:

“By the way, warn all traveling trainers to take the handcuffs out of hand luggage,  very funny story….  In a nutshell after convincing them they were harmless props, they let me go back out again, have my bag retrieved from Baggageland, which does not take two minutes, with looks of suspicion and even some “hey, how you doing?” looks from bystanders. And me trying to convince them with very red checks that they are props for training.    Still laughing out loud as I am writing this“