Great advice for speaking! It’s a great feeling to give a keynote and see that response. In my experience, it’s almost always in response to a story.
Also a great aspiration for writing. It’s just harder to “see” when the writing hits. For my clients, learning to dial their writing into that same mode is the goal. Like Brandon Sanderson says [paraphrased], “Every chapter doesn’t have to be everyone’s favorite. But every chapter needs to have the potential to be someone’s favorite.”
I feel that this applies to interviewing as well. Look at how the interviewers are acting. Are they engaged or do you need to pry them for next steps etc.
If you can get a ELU moment you have a great shot!
Liked the part where you say “we keep on talking to finish what we had planned “. As I became more experienced I’ve realised it’s important to pause after making an assertion to give the audience a chance to refute or agree and then move ahead.
If I’m presenting to a peer there will be occasions when they will ask “intellectual” questions because they want to understand what I’m saying. Why is that bad?. Eg: if at Amazon I say “we should penalize sellers who have customer return rates beyond 95th percentile of peer group” they will ask - how many sellers will be impacted and what is the benefit in terms of better conversion to customers . What’s wrong with this if their eyes don’t light up immediately?
I think this advice applies mostly in “sales” situations so why didn’t you caveat it as such?
Great advice for speaking! It’s a great feeling to give a keynote and see that response. In my experience, it’s almost always in response to a story.
Also a great aspiration for writing. It’s just harder to “see” when the writing hits. For my clients, learning to dial their writing into that same mode is the goal. Like Brandon Sanderson says [paraphrased], “Every chapter doesn’t have to be everyone’s favorite. But every chapter needs to have the potential to be someone’s favorite.”
I feel that this applies to interviewing as well. Look at how the interviewers are acting. Are they engaged or do you need to pry them for next steps etc.
If you can get a ELU moment you have a great shot!
Wow. This is great/deep...
Deep in that.. the practice of TALKING and WATCHING/INTERPRETING at the same time
... the mindfulness and consciousness necessary is honestly unnatural to me. But I'm encouraged / challenged to work on this.
Thanks!
If anything, perfect the start and the end. The rest of the story will flow.
Liked the part where you say “we keep on talking to finish what we had planned “. As I became more experienced I’ve realised it’s important to pause after making an assertion to give the audience a chance to refute or agree and then move ahead.
If I’m presenting to a peer there will be occasions when they will ask “intellectual” questions because they want to understand what I’m saying. Why is that bad?. Eg: if at Amazon I say “we should penalize sellers who have customer return rates beyond 95th percentile of peer group” they will ask - how many sellers will be impacted and what is the benefit in terms of better conversion to customers . What’s wrong with this if their eyes don’t light up immediately?
I think this advice applies mostly in “sales” situations so why didn’t you caveat it as such?