Royal Wedding - Is it good for the UK

Royal Wedding – Like it / Don’t like it! But has it been good for the UK.

Whether you are a fan of the royal family or not unless you avoided TV, Newspapers and the Internet for the past month you wouldn’t have been able to avoid the hype building up to the big day for William & Catherine on Friday.

I have to admit I’d had enough of people talking about the wedding a week before it happened and resolutely told myself that I wouldn’t watch it. That said come the day I found myself glued to the television in a pub surrounded by friends watching the event unfold.

With ceremony and the kiss on the balcony out of the way our conversation quickly turned to was this a good thing for the UK and in particular a good thing for London. We speculated on that amount of money the wedding had cost and how much would it bring when you added up the impact of tourism, merchandising, advertising and many more possible revenue streams. I’m sure we weren’t the only group of people having the conversation that day.

One thing that particularly struck me though is this conversation started with a group of about six friends and in the end perhaps a dozen more people sitting at the tables around us contributed to the debate. Somehow this event had given everyone something to talk about …. Something unifying! Looking in the papers in the past few days there are many reports of the two thousand street parties across the country and many report the same thing. “A greater sense of community”

On reflection this for me is one of the greatest benefits of this whole event. I’m always pleasantly surprised when people come on communications and influencing skills training with us and they report back as one of the key benefits being better relationships with colleagues and also people from their greater community. By our nature we are social beings and anything that promotes that has the possibility to promote our happiness both at work and at home.

So as we head back into work after another long weekend take the opportunity to strengthen relationships by talking about your experiences of Friday. Even if your experience was to lock yourself away so you didn’t see the event at all.

It becomes a little easier to get a conversation going when you have a common interest or event to talk about.

If you’d like to become the kind of person who can always get that conversation going (even when there isn’t a royal wedding to talk about) then come and join us for a preview of our flagship programme on the 10th May at the Sheraton Park Lane Hotel 6pm – 8.30pm

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David Anderson
Managing Director