Will Kintish

Business trainer Will Kintish, who blogs at Being Kintished, is coming to Malta to lead a seminar convened by MGIMalta next week. From The Times business supplement:

The seminar in Malta will be his first here, having been invited by George Farrugia a director at MGI Finconsult Ltd. "I came across Will in June 2004 while attending an MGI European meeting in Brussels organised by our Brussels office," Mr Farrugia said. At such meetings a day is always reserved for professional development and Will was selected for that year. In our companies we sometimes have to take on many roles. We are accountants but most of us also have to take on the role of employers, marketeers, negotiators, business administrators and so on, roles for which our profession never prepared us. While the best course of action would be to delegate such roles to suitably qualified persons, one must learn as much as one can so as to avoid costly disasters."

Mr Farrugia said that day in Brussels with Will Kintish was a memorable one. "He was serious and humorous at the same time and involved the audience in his presentation through the day. He didn't stop either through the coffee or lunch breaks. Pointing to a group of us having coffee, for example, he tried to explain the message that our personal postures conveyed to outsiders." Mr Kintish has visited Malta on holiday before, he said, but it had taken two years to find a suitable opening in his diary for the seminar. Mr Farrugia was convinced of the need for such an activity.

"Increasing one's confidence when in the presence of strangers is something that we can never have enough of both in our social and professional lives. Therefore, learning how to interpret a room full of strangers, how to join in discussions with such strangers and follow up such new acquaintances for potential business opportunities is a skill that we should learn from a very early age. Personal communication skills and self confidence will, at the end of the day, determine who will succeed and who will fail Mr Farrugia said.