In reply to my post from last Friday, Jen Lambert as issued a reply (complete message here). In it she writes unequivocally:
“Let me be as clear as I possibly can:
- I have nothing but admiration and respect for Barbara Bruno. I consider her to be a luminary in our industry and I am grateful for her leadership and contributions to the recruiting profession.”
And:
“If you have ever been the fortunate recipient of Barb Bruno’s training, you know like I do, that none of those descriptors fit her or her work. There’s a reason Barb calls her newsletter “No B.S.”-she’s not a B.S. trainer. She’s the real deal! I look up to her and use her “No B.S.” standard as a measure against which I evaluate my own work.”
Fair enough.
As I said in my earlier post:
“I have met Jennifer, she seems like an intelligent, engaging, capable, successful and insightful practitioner of our craft. She is currently the Cahill ATD new trainer du jour, so clearly she must have some interesting thoughts to share, as Danny doesn’t let just anyone train his recruiters. So, yes, I am compelled by her message of enthusiasm and new thinking that makes up the second half of her personal message to her readers, which is compelling…”
She ends her reply message by quoting from Craig Silverman’s Facebook comment to this tread there by ending her message,
“Onward and upward.”
I couldn’t agree more.
Let’s keep it positive and focused on the ways we can raise our profession up with training and techniques that will make us all more successful. There is no need for, what more than just this observer, felt were negative jabs or ambiguous innuendo when the message that Jen has in her Recruiter Revival contains such enthusiasm and field tested techniques that will stand on their own.
Additionally, I w9uld like to apologize to Jen knowing now that she did not intend to “contemptuously mock” Barbara Bruno in any way. I am glad she has cleared that up for all of us who read what she wrote in her original promo in a manner entirely inconsistent with her intention. But our perceptions were an unfortunatel reality of that simply unnecessary intro to such a fantastic message about her upcoming webinar and it’s content. Another great lesson for us all on being careful with context and innuendo. For those of us who know and respect Barb, we couldn’t help but think of her in the context of that initial message.
Jen has 1100 signed up for her Recruiter Revival on the 14th, I hope she gets double or even triple that number to join her for the positive, intelligent, creative new ideas and perspective that Danny and NAPS believe she has to offer.
Sign up now before it is too late, and my best wishes to Jen for a fantastic webinar Thursday.
“Onward and upward” for a positive and successful 2010, and don’t forget to join Jen this Thursday.
Jenifer Lambert Responds 100111
This sounds much more like the Jeff I know!