Matt Abrahams

You just don't want it to be distracting.

So there's some rules or ideas around movement.

So move when appropriate during transitions.

You know, stand-up comedians have a rule that they try to follow is you never want to walk during the punchline.

You want to land the punchline.

All of us, when we communicate, we have punchlines.

We have things that really we want to have land.

Stand still during that.

But as you're doing the setup, move side to side.

When you start, come in, move forward.

So movement can help you with that anxiety, but it also can help your audience understand what's important and what's not important.

So if I'm transitioning from one point to the next and I physically move or I turn my body at the table if I'm seated, that signals information to you that's helpful for you to know we're moving from one place to the next.

So use this need to move in a purposeful way.

Right, because you're distracting your audience.

Even Chris Rock, who moves a lot, will sometimes stop during the punchline.

in terms of what you observe with people's expect audiences expectation of how engaging something is yeah so i i see this play out in a couple ways one when you when you think about a multi-generational workforce or a place where multi-generations are together you know people of our vintage although i'm older than you are are expect relationships and communication to unfold in a certain way and i think younger generations expect things to be quicker and more transactional and when we come together that can

breed misunderstanding and sometimes conflict.

I see it play out there and I find it really interesting and I try to coach the students I have that they have to be appreciative of the ways in which people connect and the ways in which people expect information to come in.

If you're just going to keep texting me things and I actually want you to pick up the phone so I can hear it in your own voice, that's going to cause some issues.

We have to appreciate that others have different ways of taking in information.