Matt Abrahams
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
working out at the gym, seeing my son for dinner.
At the end of each one of those phrases, I've landed my phrase, I'm out of breath.
I'm training myself how to do that.
You'll get rid of many of your filler words.
Fantastic.
You don't have many filler words.
There are two ways to answer that question.
One is about time.
How long does it take?
My mother has a wonderful saying.
She likes to say, tell the time, don't build the clock.
Many of us are clock builders when we communicate.
We say much more than we need to.
So if you have to tell a story, think about what's the most critical few.
In the military, they talk about bottom line up front.
Get that bottom line up there.
So don't say more than you need to.
The other part is you have to make the story engaging and relevant to the people you're talking to.
A lot of people have such a preamble to get to the start.
A colleague of mine likes to talk about parachuting in.