Yasir Khan
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254 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 4 Mar
Yasir Khan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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What do you think is the number one thing or one mistake people make in their presentations? Shout some words at me as I walk around. I'll get off stage, I'll walk around and I'll collect all the words from them. So I heard this, I heard that, I heard this. All of those are great answers, but that's not the number one thing. And then I will go into my speech. So how are they feeling?
Hey, everything that we said is contributing to his speech. And now it's a conversation and not a performance.
To answer your first question, do regular check-ins. And regular check-ins are just these quick questions. Raise your hand if I'm on the right track or nod your head if you've seen this before. Just these really, really quick engagement points so you know they're still with you. If someone's on their phone, at the very least when they hear it, they know they have to be sucked back in.
Now, a trick that I use is if I know the people in the room and I want to get their specific attention, I'll call them out by name. So let's say there's 10 people there. So for example, Michael, you remember in our last meeting, right? We did X, Y, Z. So what I'm talking about here is immediately when they hear their name, oh, okay. Right like that.
You have to be attentive to people. Now on Zoom, the way I would do this, if I don't know anyone, I see their names pop up. So I showed up. I had no idea who anyone was in the room. I was really nervous. Hala, what do you think I did in that moment? Exactly. I was really nervous before my speech. So I will just look at their name. I will get their attention. I will place them into my speech.
That way they feel acknowledged throughout. So if there's 50 people in my Zoom call, I will take many different names throughout it. So every single person feels recognized throughout it. Remind me of your second question.
Yeah. Does it aid the story? Does it aid the purpose? Body language can get very distracting as well. I remember I used to do this entire play with my hands and people had to tell me, hey, relax a little bit. You're putting on this. It doesn't contribute to your story. So if it adds to the story, great. I naturally use my hands a lot.
But in meetings specifically, I've noticed that the more controlled your hands are, the more confident you sound. Because if you ask me a question, Yasser, Are you really a good public speaking coach? Oh yeah, yeah, I'm a great public speaking coach. I've done a lot. You can see all this uncontrolled movement in the moment and that shows you I'm not very confident.
Now, whereas if you ask me the same question and I'd move nothing about my body, you ask me, why are you such a good public speaker? I'm a really good public speaker because I've done this enough. I didn't move my body at all, but that showed stability and calmness and composure. So it really depends on the context. It's not just more or less. It's what's the context?
What are you trying to communicate?
Yeah.
Well, what happens when we can't see someone's hands psychologically? We just don't know what they're holding in their hands. We don't know if they're holding a weapon or what it might be. If someone's hands are under the desk in their pocket behind their hands, subconsciously, it creates uncertainty.
I can't see his hands or I can't see her hands. I wonder what they're doing. I wonder what they're hiding, right? So similarly, if someone puts on a hoodie in the middle of the night and is walking down the street and you're walking towards them, just because it's dark, you can't see them, they've got a hoodie on, there's uncertainty.
So that's why when you reveal your palms, it shows that you're friendly. It shows that there's a lack of, I'm not hiding anything. So open palm gestures tend to be much easier on the eyes to perceive a message.
Let's do it.
Admit to your own limitations first before you tell them what to do.
So if I said, go vegan, it'll change your life. Your diet sucks. You're probably not going to go vegan. But if I said, man, I love eating meat, but I, for some reason, when I would go to my jujitsu class, my stamina would just run out. Then I met this guy who said, hey, have you tried going vegan? I said, are you out of your mind? He said, I didn't like it either, but I tried going vegan.
It really helped. So I said, okay, I tried it for a month and oh my God, did it help? My stamina was through the roof. So if your stamina is an issue, give it a shot.
Count the number of things you will share. So if I said, Hala, today I'm going to share a couple of things with you that will help with public speaking. Or, Hala, today I'm going to share five things that will help you with public speaking. Which one sounds more intelligent?
All I did was number it. And it does so much because it makes you think, oh, this person has thought about it enough that they know how many numbers are tied to that equation. Quick little tip.
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