Why do these things happen to me?

Going through my e-mail, I noticed an item from Dr. David Hilson from  www.risk-doctor.com.  He’d received a recent flier from the BCS on my talk and he wondered what I was planning to speak on.

Just as I began to feel a warm glow from someone expressing an interest in the event I read on and my blood turned cold.   It seemed I’d been described as “a well-known consultant, expert and author in Risk Management”.

Here we go again!  I’m always being described as “An expert in . .” when I give talks.  I always prefer to stick to the truth – that I’m someone with lots of experience and a system for project risk management that works.  Anything else I leave to the audience to decide for themselves.

I sent David a brief note to confirm that this seemed to be a case of the organisers selling me enthusiastically.  After all, they are charging people to attend the evening, so they’ve got to do all they can to get people interested.

Hopefully we’ll have a great evening and get to swap ideas on the night.  In the meantime I’d better become better known and finish the book, otherwise I’ll run the risk of being oversold.