#25 Presenting with AI (1): Story — What Do You Want Them to Feel?
Someone is presenting in an online meeting. Half the cameras are off. One person is writing emails, another is reading something else. Afterwards, the presenter says what I hear more and more often: I would like some meeting rules. Cameras on, no email, full attention for whoever is speaking. I understand the wish. I also think the rules would not have saved that meeting. Many employees landed in a hybrid world of communication during Covid and never really learned how to communicate in it. There is more to do than fits into a day, and, I suspect, many of us have trained ourselves on thirty-second videos. But a good part of it sits with the sender: how you win a room's attention, and how you keep it.
If you run a company, this is your problem first. Decisions get made where someone presents: the board meeting, the sales call, the project review. In a Microsoft Research analysis of 34,524 meeting records, someone sent or answered email in roughly three out of ten meetings, and the odds...
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