It has been a couple of weeks since my last post. During that time I have been to Alice Springs in Australia’s outback.
For some time I have believed that “immersion” events, where the whole audience is immersed in a single conference theme is a more effective learning model than the traditional company or association conference where speaker after speaker rise to deliver their standard PowerPoint presentation.
Financial advisory group Synchron were brave enough to try my concept at their bi-annual advisers conference held in Alice Springs (in Australia’s Outback).
In brief, the conference was designed as an estate-planning scenario that reflected on a number of “real life” situations as they emerged in the life of Alice Springs trucking business owner Richard (Dicky) Goer.
In the opening scene, Dicky attends a meeting with Financial Adviser Mick Madden (played by me) following a suggestion from his wife Amanda.
Over the scenes that follow:
- Dicky is in an accident and is hospitalised
- Dicky dies and there is a funeral
- At the will reading the wife discovers that he has a very pregnant girlfriend (and they have a wonderful fight in the lawyers office)
- Dicky rises from the dead (misdiagnosed)
- Attendees present their advice based on the facts revealed as on-stage presentations.
At each stage various “experts” are called in to give professional advice about ares such as:
- Business structures
- Powers of attorney
- Investments
- Insurance
- Insurance claims management
- Retirement funding
- Wills
Maybe I have found a new career.
The Main Players
After the Accident – Dicky with Adviser (Yours Truly – red tie) and Lawyer
The Funeral
Rising from the dead
