Matt Abrahams

I had to announce – I mean this sounds so silly, but the gym is closing in 30 minutes.

But as a high school student, I had to say that with 100 people in the gym.

That was nerve-wracking, but that was part of my desensitization.

So cool.

Oh, absolutely.

And unfortunately, some of those opportunities and jobs are changing and we have to find other vehicles to help people.

I

When I left high tech, I taught high school for two years before I graduated to do what I'm doing now.

And I learned so much about communication teaching 14-, 15-year-olds that I never learned working in adults-running organizations like I did.

So getting these opportunities is precious.

yet we don't have a lot of those opportunities.

One thing I think we can all do with the younger generation and even colleagues we have is role model and talk through some of the things that we're thinking about in terms of our communication.

So I, with my children, will often say, I have to have a difficult conversation tomorrow with a colleague or with a boss, and I'm really worried about this, or I'm thinking about saying it this way.

We don't often get meta about our communication, and yet there are learnings that we can pass along.

And, you know, you you saw it.

I see it where we're both affiliated with our teaching.

I mean, people are brilliant and they're really good communicators, but they don't weren't always that way.

They had to learn and they had to do it.

And when you start talking to people, which I have the advantage of doing is asking them, how did you get to do that?

What do you do?