In person

I’ve talked here many times before about the importance of breaking the pattern when you are communicating or presenting.

(and by the way, yes, I recognize the irony of repeatedly talking about the virtues of breaking a pattern)

I’ve also mentioned that breaking the pattern can be surprisingly easy, that it can often be accomplished simply by changing your greeting, using a different color, stuff like that.

Here’s another way, something few of us had in our toolkits until a couple years ago…

In the past few years, since the pandemic, the world has become much more friendly towards remote presentations. In fact, in many places, remote communication is now the norm.

Which means that you can break the pattern simply by being in person.

It wasn’t like that 10 years ago. In this short from the podcast, Nick Richtsmeier reminds us of that:

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