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1Matt Abrahams is the co-host of the podcast Think Fast Talk Smart.
Matt is a lecturer in Organizational Behavior at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business where he teaches classes in strategic communication and effective virtual presenting.
Matt has helped many presenters worldwide deliver their message on the TED stage, in the World Economic Forum, and at Nobel Prize Presentations.
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1. Don't be me-monster. Make sure we are not talking ourselves too much. Disengaging others.
• Using questions.
• Using Paraphrashing is a great tool to interrupt me-monster politely.
2. Make sure we are more interested. Not trying to be interesting.
• Listen, Pause and say tell me more.
• Asking follow up questions:
• I am curious to learn more.
• What more can you tell me about that?
• Ask Specific questions:
• How does that play out? What came next?
3. Make sure we are using more supporting turns rather than switching turns.
• Supporting turns: keep you on the same topic
• Switching turns: switch to different topic