Condiments: The small things count, sometimes

While having breakfast at the airport, I glanced over at the condiments counter. I realize that the only items I take from it are creamers for my coffee and the stirrer.

Then I continued to look as I see others take huge globs of ketchup and chilli sauce. Then they come back to take packets of sugar, creamer and basically anything else in the counter. Wow, that's a lot of condiments.

Each of us have a need to complete our meals in our own ways, I guess. Some need more some need less some need none.

This reminds me of a time when I was conducting a training session with a few friends. As trainers, we all had our own styles and use our own variety of props and presentation styles.

One was heavily using PowerPoint presentations, flip charts and markers to draw diagrams. Another was purely verbal and uses his superior language and oratory skills to get his point across. Another lady trainer very wisely used games, videos, audio interviews to highlight learnings. The whole seminar was a great example of many meals put together to suit different styles of learning and therefore brought out the best of the group.

So it does not matter what are your choice of condiments. As long as the meal is appropriately appreciated, that counts.