Wednesday’s – Interview with Senior Manger of Enmax
Published on 13 Jun 2007 at 4:08 pm.
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Filed under Ideas, Tracy Rambling.
Good Morning Mr. Perri,
I am the author of the website/blog “Calgary Business Marketing”, I would like to ask you a few questions in regards to the 2007 awards gala dinner you attended last Tuesday at the Telus convention centre? Who was the key speaker and what was some of the highlights of their speech?
Tana Goertz.
Tana’s 5tips to be unforgetable1. Be you
2.Be persistent
3.Be straightforward/to the pointBe decisive, say what you mean and mean what you say
4.Be a mover on’er – leave the negativity behind
5.Be a problem solver – are you a hero or a zero Heytana.com
Fake it til you make it!
This was a slogan she was using to tell you that if you do not exhibit the 5 things above that you can fake that you are until you train yourself to actually do them.
Did you find the event to be valuable to the Calgary business community?
The keynote speaker was a finalist on the Apprentice 3 and as such had some valuable marketing insights for entrepeneurs in the the Calgary Business community.In terms of the this event, she was more valuable in terms of selling her positive attitude concept to the audience of primarily project managers.
Did you find that there were a lot of Calgary business attendees or was it more the larger companies?
It was primarily attended by larger corporations who have completed large projects in the Calgary area. There were also many project consulting companies represented.
What were some of the awards that were presented?
Project of the year
Project manager of the year
Distinguished individual contribution to project management
Distinguished company contribution to project management
Did your company receive any awards?
We were nominated in the project of the year category and were a finalist in the Distinguished company contribution category but did not win either of these.However, the person who won project manager of the year was the project manager for our nominated project so we were very excited for her win.
Back to the key speaker, is there any further information that I can get on her, or for that matter the rest of Calgary?
She has a website www.heytana.com
Would you attend an event held by the key speaker again?
I would not make my attendance decision based on whether she was speaking at the event. I thought she was an interesting speaker, with an abundance of confidence. I find that she was a bit too aggressive for the corporate crowd which this even was focused on, however I think she would really appeal to an entrepreneurial audience.
Thank you for you time and I look forward to talking with you in the future.
