Afterburner

A recent meeting was led by Afterburner, an organization whose speakers are former fighter pilots. The audience loved their fighter pilot analogies that made learning communication skills easy and fun.

The meeting’s message was tied together by incorporating the company’s social responsibility philosophy. Attendees spent an hour building airplanes for children of military personnel, who would attend the dinner later that evening.

After dinner, the children sat at the front of the stage for a presentation geared toward them, where the pilot reviewed many of the same philosophies from the day before. The kids had a few questions during this session.

“If the raft is in your seat, how are you not already in it?”

Kid 1: “Can you drink when you’re flying?”

Kid 2: “That’s only when you fly first class.

Doing something nice for families who do so much for our country felt really good, but when the kids came up with these questions, the place erupted with laughter as the “child in all of us” came out.