ANSWER IN ONE LINE

We often see several busy folks in various roles who don’t have time to  listen more or they don’t want to. Some may talk more and listen less or don’t listen too. We also heard people listen to ask questions more instead of understanding. So such contexts we have a challenge.

  

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How to articulate a scenario or point to a serious audience who may not have time to listen at all? With some reasonable preparation, one can achieve this.  First, get the big picture and understand WHY we need to present first of all. Try to find out what is the benefit of the person receiving the message. If you can get that clarity upfront, it is easy to tune your 30 seconds or 1-minute pitch to that audience. That can be presented through a verbal update or a single executive summary or even in a single short mail. Your subsequent conversations completely depend on how you succeed in delivering your short time pitch. Eventually you land up in making the busy listener completely listen to your originally planned topics, if you could advance sequentially building the interest with short updates planned effectively.  

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  1. Soham ChachadOctober 3, 2020 at 9:52 PM

    This was the most awaited one, great Jayaraj Sir

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  2. Jayaraj NarayanaOctober 3, 2020 at 10:04 PM

    Thanks a lot, appreciate your time to go through.

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  3. Satheesh SadanandOctober 4, 2020 at 2:39 AM

    The ability to summarize a lengthy message into 1-2 lines of actionable statements is key to successful communication. Whether we like it or not, every person is pressed for time and would like to get to the point fast.
    The flip side of this is that many times the one line summary could get rejected if the listener does not have the patience to go through the details.

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    1. Jayaraj NarayanaOctober 4, 2020 at 10:24 AM

      Thank you Satheesh, appreciate your comments with your experience too.

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  4. UnknownOctober 4, 2020 at 10:42 AM

    Useful knowledge.

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