You are talking to a highly-educated member of the Latin American professional or executive classes about the difference between meetings and conferences in his country and those in the English-speaking world. You have been surprised at the lack of any two-way communication, the total absence of the use of flip charts and simple facilitation skills, for example.You lament the lost opportunities for dialogue or mutual learning. You say that 'at home' there are Flip-Charts in most offices, training centres, in team-rooms, in business, in government, in schools, police-stations, universities, in the city, in the country. Even if they are used only as a rough note-pad, for a daily “To-Do” list for an office, or messages, or reminders, or to record an idea, they are useful tools.
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