Let’s talk about all those skeletons in the room 💀 💀 💀
Let’s talk about all those skeletons in the room 💀 💀 💀You bore your audience to death (or distraction) when you ➜
- Include no stories.
- Share just a bunch of data.
- Share too much info on each of your slides.
- Read the bullets on those slides. Bullets kill. *
- Look at the screen with your visuals rather than your audience.
- Start without gaining your audience’s attention.
- Conclude without a Call To Action.
- Forget to share What’s In It For Them, aka ROI (Return On Investment for the time they’ve spent listening to your speech/conversation or reading your emails).
- Confuse your listeners by being disorganized.
- Underestimate the level of experience of your listeners.
- Pace back and forth – it’s hypnotic in a bad way!
*Thank you, Region10 ESC
You resonated with this concept that “bullets can kill”! Welcome to this Speak For Yourself® blog. It was great speaking to you and your leadership team last week!
Happy Halloween!
Happy Halloween!Enjoy all those yard-art skeletons, but I don’t want any of them to show up in your audiences!
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We have received such great feedback from our team after your session last week! Also, you will be proud to know that I shared a story about my weekend with one of my team members instead of listing all the boring things I did over the weekend 🙂
Hi Rachel – Fabulous! Congrats on sharing a story, rather than a list, when talking to your team about your weekend. And thanks so much for your feedback about our @Region10ESC How To Communicate Like Duct Tape Workshop last week. Yay!