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Sticky Learning Lunches #26: Give Your Presentations Oomph
Today’s topic, Your Online Presentations Lack Oomph Part 2. Use the ‘ONLINE POWER’ mnemonic to be a more powerful you online and a great online presenter.
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Nathan Simmonds:
Good afternoon everyone. Welcome to today’s Sticky Learning Lunch. We’re just waiting for the last few or the next few people. The last few people to arrive into today’s session. Just gonna give them the opportunity to arrive as we get set up, feel a little bit more light on this situation. How are we all on a scale of one to 10, one being terrible, 10 being phenomenal? How are we feeling today so far? Chris, good to see you again, Colin to see you. Gina, hello again. Joanna.
Nathan Simmonds:
Thank you very much for being here. Tim, tens, nines, Howard, new face. How are you sir? Good to be with you as well. Thank you very much, Christopher. Appreciate it. Benjamin, good to see you. Kira, wonderful to see you again as well. Thank you very much for being here. Just while we’re letting the last people in at one to 10, how are you feeling? One terrible, 10. Phenomenal. Where are you on today’s scale? We can give it not even 30 seconds, and we’re gonna dive into today’s content and nine with an explanation.
Nathan Simmonds:
Mark. Crikey, definite, 7.5. Let’s see if we can lift that up a little bit with today. Right? Let’s dive in. Drink as you see herbal tea. Make sure you’ve got a drink. You’re set up. You can must stay hydrated through this conversation. Phones, as always, that’s what I’m looking down at right now. Let’s make sure you are on flight mode. Get yourselves, get the distraction zeroed out, and give yourself full attention to you, your personal development and where you are going with your skills, with your work and with your thinking.
Nathan Simmonds:
Fresh notepad, clean page at the top of the page keepers, that’s what you wanna write is keepers at the top there. These are the things you want to remember, the things that you want to keep hold of the things that you want to read. And when you go back into it, it brings up the new thinking, it creates new ideas and invokes the imagination to keep that learning embedded, to make sure you are consistently building that behavioral change that’s gonna help you be even better than you were yesterday.
Nathan Simmonds:
Let’s dive in. Welcome to today’s Sticky Learning lunch with me, Nathan Simmons, senior leadership coach and trainer for MBM, making Business Matter, the home of Sticky Learning. And we are the leadership development and soft skills provider to the grocery and manufacturing industry. These sticky learning lunches are all about helping you be the best version of you right now in this current situation.
Nathan Simmonds:
Maybe you are working from home and helping you to return back to work as well. Colin, on the ball helping me to remember being, get on my full screen because that’s the thing I always forget ’cause I just get carried away and, and, and power into this information. Today is part two of online power. It is about online presentations. It’s about creating engagement and being more engaging when you are delivering conversations over zoom or via web conference.
Nathan Simmonds:
And today is all about the power. So yesterday we talked about online. Today we’re talking about the power behind that, how engaging, thinking about the content that you, that you are delivering and the conversations that you are having with your people, how would you rate the level of engagement that you create? Again, one, not so great, 10 on point. Everyone’s with me all of the time. All the actions are clear, everyone goes away and does what they need to do.
Nathan Simmonds:
Got a five and they’re nice. I love the honesty. 5, 6, 6. What else? Any more numbers? Let’s see who else. We’ve got one. Terrible, 10. Phenomenal. How would you rate the level of engagement that you create with your people? A lot of fives. We’ve got some people we’re all feeling right in the middle about this. Six. Good engagement, but it would be better if I had a camera. Absolutely. I don’t talk too much about tech here, but making sure that it is, it’s high definition.
Nathan Simmonds:
Seven 20, whatever, you know, over a thousand ideal. What’s one thing that you could all do right now that would help you to improve that engagement? Whether it’s from yesterday’s content or something else you’ve seen me do or someone else do? What’s one thing that you could do that would help you to improve that engagement with your teams and inside your conversations? Let’s see that in the questions box as well. Let’s see what good ideas we can share amongst ourselves to give that peer to peer coaching and development right now.
Nathan Simmonds:
Continually ask for feedback. Great one. Do it at the relevant points. Convey enthusiasm and passion. Absolutely. We’re gonna talk a little bit about that today, Howard. Thank you. Check out eye level for camera if I have one. Yes, when you get one, just make sure it’s there and you can, and you are looking into that person’s eyes when they’re looking at you. I read your supposed to amplify yourself by 20%, but not sure this, right? Are we talking about sound and projection?
Nathan Simmonds:
If that’s the case, one of the key things is making sure that actually you are standing up, that you are opening your chest cavity up and you are able to put a little bit of air behind what, what you are doing and then start to kind of get a bit of oomph. Test, testing and experimentation is huge. Why? Because if I use the, the equipment I’ve got here and I don’t understand how I sound here or how I sound over here when I’m using the same volume, how does that change and how do people engage with me?
Nathan Simmonds:
Jane, thank you very much appreciated. Jane says, love how you use questions to engage and keep engaged. This is, this is the whole point. It’s got to be a two-way dialogue. Yes, there’s gonna be moments in this 20 minutes when I’m gonna fire information at you. I also want you to know that you’re holding that information and by me asking questions to you, it’s helping me to make sure that you are on track.
Nathan Simmonds:
It’s helping me to make sure that you are paying attention because I cannot see you in the nicest possible way. What I can see is if you are looking at different windows and browsers, so if you are currently looking at a different window or this, what, what you are see in the video of me, I can see if, if that isn’t the, the the top most layer, which means then you’re looking maybe your email or you’re looking at another webpage whilst this is going on in the background.
Nathan Simmonds:
So I’m this, I can see. So I use these statistics afterwards to see how engaged you are with this and with me. And the engagement scores on average with the go-to webinar is about 52%. When I work with individuals and work in this space, it ranges from anywhere between 62 and 81% engagement, depending on the content I’m delivering and how I’m talking to people. Because, because of the questions I’m asking, how many screens do I do you have open, I only have two one window and then I have the rear display, which is PowerPoint.
Nathan Simmonds:
But I can see when other people have got, you know, they’ve minimized the windows and they’ve got selection of tabs open. If I’m not the top one, I can see whether you are engaging with me or whether you’ve got something else over the top of that or something that you, you deem a higher priority. So it’s about that engagement. It’s about watching, you know, and me gauging those reactions and, and feeling how people are going at and then asking the questions to bring dialogue back.
Nathan Simmonds:
This is vital for when you are doing this with people in, in your team meetings. In your presentations. Ask questions. One, because it creates a certain amount of authority. If you get stopped by the police who’s asking the questions, tell me in the question box, if you get stopped by the police, who’s asking the questions, James laughing.
Nathan Simmonds:
It instantly creates a certain amount of authority. I’m interested in you and your response is, ah, he’s interested in me. Therefore, you know, okay, this, this person. There’s a level of trust or engagement or, you know, or rapport being built here. What’s going on here? Let’s, let’s answer these questions and see where this conversation goes. This is super important. We understand this as well, but look, let’s dive into this today.
Nathan Simmonds:
Today is all about power. We’ve got about 12 minutes to power through this policeman usually asking sarcastic questions. Yes, they tend to do that because they feel they can get away with it. We’re not starting with the P today. I’ll come back to that in just a minute. We’re gonna do that at the end. The first one is what is over your shoulder? You, when you are delivering content, it is vital. You understand what is behind you. Give your prime example.
Nathan Simmonds:
So if you look at the interview series that we’ve done on the Making Business Matter YouTube channel, we recently started doing some interviews and podcast style conversations. Initially you’ll see the first one and this comes into the W of me and what the background is in my home office. What you can see though, along with how I’ve changed the background here, what I’ve done is I’ve changed the wall, the whiteboard is on.
Nathan Simmonds:
I’ve also changed where the desk is. So you can see you get a different view of what’s behind me. So rather than me being at a peculiar angle because of the lighting that was you covered yesterday, I’ve now shifted it. So the lighting is fairly neutral, fairly, but the background is much more much more professional, much cleaner, much tidier. And you can, you can see a different a very different scenario, different scenery in that.
Nathan Simmonds:
So be thinking about what’s going on behind you, because even though someone’s looking at you, they’re also looking at what’s behind you. Whether there’s mess, whether there’s distraction. And everyone remembers that situation where the man was being interviewed in Korea when his son turned up halfway through the interview is just being aware what’s behind you and how you’re creating that space.
Nathan Simmonds:
So have a think about that first, you know, before you dive on that because you wanna zero out as much of a distraction if people are judging your home. Decor, decor, decor, decor. You know, you want them to be focusing on you as an individual. Just come in here when you see people working in messy offices too, it does not seem professional.
Nathan Simmonds:
Agree. Hence the reason why you only see this part of all not my creative space as I like to call it, which is underneath the desk on here. There’s quite a lot going on, but you wanna make sure they see certain elements. It creates an atmosphere, an ambiance that goes with what you do when you are doing it. Super important. So check what’s behind you. First of all,
Nathan Simmonds:
The w is for wardrobe. We covered this a little bit in some of the first sessions. The first sticky learnings we did, crikey, six weeks ago, seven weeks ago maybe. What are you wearing into your sessions? What message are you conveying through your outfit Every session? I do predominantly in my wardrobe. I don’t have any other colored shirts other than my short sleeve ones. For summer, I wear a crisp white shirt 99% of the time, normally, unless it’s the end of the week and it tends to be a T-shirt with a jumper maybe.
Nathan Simmonds:
But again, thinking about what are you displaying, what are you creating and what are you telling the world? The phrase that’s often used is address for the job that you want to do. For me, when we’re doing the presentation piece, it’s dress for the message that you want to deliver in accordance with the people that you want to hear it. It’s very easy to overdress for certain organizations. It’s very easy to underdress if you get it wrong. Think about who you’re delivering that message to. Think about the content of that message and how you want it to be received and how you’re gonna address to convey that in the strongest possible way.
Nathan Simmonds:
So think about your working from home wardrobe and, and when you’re gonna wear that so that you can actually convey that and deliver the message in the best possible way. Is only, as I said yesterday, part of the the, the challenge we have is how our brain or our brains are overworking. Where are we now? Nine weeks in, 10 weeks in maybe for some of us to this, the, the, the physical distancing that we’re experiencing now.
Nathan Simmonds:
Who here currently, yes or no is still getting tired halfway, three quarters of the way through the day because of the number of, the number of video calls that they’re doing? Yes or no? Who’s getting tired at this point in time? Yes. And we’re still doing it, aren’t we? Even after nine, 10 weeks, it’s still tiring. Who else? I’m restricting that now. He has a good shout. Yeah, restrict your time.
Nathan Simmonds:
Jane has put on there, you know, absolutely great thing on him. I’m restricting that now, which is why we do ears only all of a sudden we go into lockdown and it, everything’s video conferencing. What happened to good old fashioned telephones? Call me. Old fashioned. Call me strange. Just because we’re in lockdown doesn’t mean we need to do video conferencing all the time unless we’re doing this content here. And Joanna, thanks for being here again. It is your third time today. I had, I think it was Jane yesterday, this was her third one.
Nathan Simmonds:
You know, there’s a lot going on with, and we’re making a lot of demands on ourselves visually and mentally as we’re doing this switch to ears only go and use a telephone. And the reason I suggest using a telephone is because when we’re doing video conferencing, what’s the reason people normally turn the video off? Let me know in in the chat box, in the, in the question box, what’s the reason people normally turn the video off if they’re doing video conferencing,
Nathan Simmonds:
You are halfway through the video conference. Someone turns the video off, not my hair day tied or distracted, not dressed properly. They don’t wanna be seen, don’t wanna see that. Yes, exactly this. There’s stuff going on multitasking. They’re either multitasking, they don’t want to be seen, they’re being distracted, they’ve just thought about something else. The challenge is, is if we are using Zoom or whatever, go toeing and we go ears only people are either gonna think we are doing something or there’s part of our brain that says, oh, they can’t see what I’m doing.
Nathan Simmonds:
I’m gonna go and do something else. So we switch the distraction onto ourselves mentally. So it’s important we understand when we wanna go. Ears only just dive on a phone call. Stick your earbuds in, you’ve got it on the phone. And psychologically you’re already shifting yourself into that position just to make a phone call and do what you do when you’re doing a phone call, which is fully pay attention with just your ears and zeroing out. And I think it’s around 66% of your brain is, is proportion to the visual stuff that we’re doing. Not completely.
Nathan Simmonds:
It’s a mix of different things between motor, motor functions and hearing and, and all those sorts of things. But it’s blended in with the visual functions of the brain. If we zero that out, we can focus on the ears only our brain will fill the blank in. So take the time and take the pressure off your brain. The r power is reality. This there, multiple people have said, and we’ve known this for a while already. In in in what we’re doing now. There is no going back. There is no returning back to normal in floating speech marks. Is there, I think my prediction, a lot of businesses will potentially fail if they think they’re going back to normal.
Nathan Simmonds:
They will say that the crisis is over. Homeworking is finished, everyone back to the office. And that’s one of the first catastrophic mistakes that some businesses will make as engagement crashes through the floor and disappears through the bottom of the basement. And then you wonder why people are leaving because they haven’t got the right structures in place to support them doing the best work they possibly can using this kind of technology in this kind of way. This is the new norm. This is part of the brave new world.
Nathan Simmonds:
So it’s important we get used to it, understand the functions, understand the different platforms, and understand how you can best benefit and, and, and use them. Whether it’s the webinar function in Zoom which is part of the paid for platform or whether it’s understanding how you mute everyone and making sure they can’t take themselves off mute, which I’m no doubt has caused multiple problems in team meetings.
Nathan Simmonds:
So understand the functionality of it and do your best to kind of give yourself the time and the breaks and et cetera. You need to recharge your battery, your social battery, as well as your zoom battery or web conferencing battery. So that actually can come in and deliver the best, as we talked about yesterday. It’s making sure that then you’re giving yourself those breaks. Before we dive into this last part very quickly, what’s been useful so far from these last four elements before we get into the p for power? What’s been useful so far?
Nathan Simmonds:
I will take the phone. Yeah, make that call. Just do Yeah, absolutely. Get on the telephone ears only. It doesn’t have to be video. Yeah, correct. This is normal now. Exactly. Definitely ask some more questions to avoid the t the tumble would absolutely remember. I can still pick up the phone. Yes. For some reason it’s like we forgot the telephone. I don’t, it is strange how the brain has the, the human brain has latched onto this modality because everybody’s doing, ah, this is what we need to get into.
Nathan Simmonds:
Understanding the o the over ow. O oh ow over shoulder wardrobe. Good, thank you. My brain went to overwhelm for something. Understanding the overwhelm concept said ow. Right? We talked about this briefly yesterday. I said there might be some strong language when we get to the, when we get to this part today,
Nathan Simmonds:
Just to make sure everyone’s okay with this. Please, please, can everyone type their favorite swear word in the questions box? It won’t be shared with anyone else. Just wanna see how, okay, we are with swearing. ’cause I want, there’s one straightaway. Cry. Pow Joanna. Good, . Good, good, good, good, good. There’s a reason I don’t really, absolutely fine. I’m completely okay with that. I’m just gonna say this. So I’ll leave the exclusive up there and you can fill it in for yourself. The first thing we wanna look at
Nathan Simmonds:
It’s your message, not you. When I talk about the proud presenter, it’s about understanding. You need to be proud if you are delivering content, if you are delivering a message, if you are delivering something that you need to convey to those people, that audience, it is about the message, not you. When we start to make it about ourselves and our, and our egos, we’re starting to think, what are they thinking about us? And in truth, they’re thinking nothing about you.
Nathan Simmonds:
They’re too busy thinking, what are you thinking about them? And we have this strange mismatch and I’ve shared that idea before and I’ll share it a million times before I die it. But it’s always about your message. It’s not about you. And when you put it into this context, I can make sure that I’m gonna deliver the right level of content, the right level of information that is gonna support these people.
Nathan Simmonds:
And I’m gonna do that in the best way possible. Does it matter if I’m wearing odd socks? Does it matter if my cuff links match my tie, which I do try and do. It doesn’t genuine genuinely matter if it does or doesn’t. And I’m starting to worry about whether I will miss content or miss out a word. And in truth, they’ll never actually know anyway. You’ll be the only person that knows if you miss any of your content.
Nathan Simmonds:
The person in the audience, the person on the other side of the screen will always feel they get a hundred percent value, a hundred percent of the content. Whether you know you’ve missed it or not. I just may know that today I may have only provided 75 or 80% of what I know I could be doing. So next time I’ll improve it. So when we start to think like this, all I’m gonna do is add value. I’m gonna convey as much of this message to these people as possible and they’re gonna get exactly what they need out of it. Number two, get passionate.
Nathan Simmonds:
Simon Sinek says, you know, people don’t buy what you do. They buy why you do it. And why I do what I do is ’cause I want to give people this information. I want to share this stuff, which is phenomenally important, phenomenally powerful and phenomenally necessary to help people get their message across. And if I do that in a monotone ’cause I’m too busy hunched over my laptop, sitting at my desk with a bunch of half drunk, you know, cups of tea behind me. Is anybody going to actually believe what I’m saying? How many of you would have turned up on day one of sticky learning lunches and still been here now or even now?
Nathan Simmonds:
Even if you’d turned up. Yes. So how many of you would be here today if yesterday was boring? Yes or no? Would you be here if yesterday was boring? No way. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Correct answer. Don’t do boring. I believe in what I teach. I believe in the lessons that I’ve learned. I believed in sharing that stuff that you can be more incredible than yesterday. Yeah. And that involves me making sure the message is clear. Never this, this is why I keep signing up. Thank for calling about showing up.
Nathan Simmonds:
What do I mean by this? If you can see this, I’m gonna turn around. There is an expletive in there for those that aren’t comfortable or prefer not to swearing, return the F’s and s’s you’ve been giving. Why? So I learned this recently and I understand this, you know, is from a, another coaching teacher that I’ve been working with or learning from, is we worry about this, this whole thing of I’m thinking, what are you thinking about me? And in truth, they don’t care.
Nathan Simmonds:
And that’s the politest way I can put it. And it’s understanding that we have to get out of our own way. We have to be honest about what we enjoy doing, be honest about our vulnerabilities, our past, and why we’ve got to what we, what we are, why we are here, so that people will listen to you. And it is mental health awareness week. So when we talk about vulnerabilities, I share that honesty with people so they can be honest with me back.
Nathan Simmonds:
And I do that with passion, with integrity to help them come to me and then to engage with that conversation. When I’m talking to you now about how to set goals, how to build your PDP, how to, you know, get yourself back to online presentations I need to get out of, of anything, any you know critical thinking. You know, the voice of the critic in my head that might be stopping. Oh, who do you think you are to do this? Who do you think you are to say that? Oh, they won’t believe you anyway. Thanks very much. Shut up.
Nathan Simmonds:
Step to the side coming through. So you need to return the whatever it is you’ve been holding, you’ve been giving so you can turn up and turn out. ’cause If you’re not doing that, people are gonna get bored. People are gonna fail to engage. People are gonna switch off. People are gonna be doing other things over the top of you and not listening. So when we stop worrying what we think other people think of us, get passionate about what we’re doing, we can deliver the message. And when we’re delivering the message, then we can tweak and adjust.
Nathan Simmonds:
We deliver the content, we listen for the feedback, we iterate and then we uplevel again. Test. We deliver the content. We listen for the feedback, whether it’s here, comments, you know, whatever testimonials we iterate and then we level up. It starts here though. Get out your own way, get passionate, deliver your message and all the other stuff will come time. What has been useful from today’s content that is gonna help you deliver an even stronger team meeting when you finish this conversation today with me?
Nathan Simmonds:
Be more incredible than yesterday. Yes, Karen. That is my language, is the words. Were some of the first words that come outta my mouth every single day. Go listen and answer all the questions. Yeah, it’s all about the message, not you. Every time it’s been good to reflect and then look to improve. Always. Even if you make Jane a 1% improvement every single day, it is not 365%, you know, improvement over a year. It’s compounded.
Nathan Simmonds:
And even if you spend, you know, the next a hundred days, one hour making an improvement over that course of that 100 days, at the end of it, you will be so far in advance of where you were and probably head and shoulders above all your competition as well. In any area you work on. Get passionate. It’s not about me. Absolutely. Information given about proud presenter and be passionate. Just a snippet. And from the experience side of things, I get this. I haven’t been for a while.
Nathan Simmonds:
I’m a lapsed member of of Toast Masters, but it’s just getting outta that own way and being in a safe environment so you can deliver content and share ideas and be vulnerable and just get used to talking about this stuff. Engagement, absolutely. Hope this has been useful. On a scale of one to 10, one terrible 10. Brilliant. How useful has the today and yesterday’s training been for you?
Nathan Simmonds:
9.99. 9 9 9. Good. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. 10 superb. Thank you very much. Really appreciate it. Announcements brief announce all this could do. Questions I’m gonna do, I’m gonna shout questions if you have questions. Now is the time to type them. I’m gonna do announcements over the top of it while you’re typing. I will forgive you if there’s any typos because of that. So please, if you’ve got questions, fire them into me right now in the questions box announcements.
Nathan Simmonds:
Firstly, thank you to everybody that has bought a pack of mental health coaching cards that has, they have been phenomenally successful and has been super high demand for them. And I just wanna say thank you to everyone that has bought a deck and have bought a set of those and is sharing them with themselves in their work. And, and this element over the last 10 days, we’ve sold 45 packets of them.
Nathan Simmonds:
So that means to me that HR professionals and leaders and individuals are buying those cards. And it’s gonna make one small adjustment to some of those conversations, especially in mental health. We know these are conversations we need to have. The decks of cards are going out there and even if people are using just one question out that deck, that’s a 1% improvement in the conversation. That’s all I care about. We can change the faith and dynamic of mental health conversations through these cards.
Nathan Simmonds:
Where do we get the coaching card? Where do you get the cards? There will be a link in the chat box very shortly as if by magic for the mental health coaching cards. This is mental health awareness week. It shouldn’t be a week. I get that. It should be every day. It should be a normal conversation, but should, should, should never turn into action.
Nathan Simmonds:
So it takes the difference between leaders buying those cards and, and HR professionals getting involved and teaching those questions to more people to make the conversations a reality. Thank you very much for that. If you have not signed up for tomorrow’s session, which is all about embedding behavioral change and making sure that learning is sticking, which is what we do at sticky learning at MBM. The link is also in the chat box for tomorrow’s session.
Nathan Simmonds:
If you have not registered, get registered and then we’ll have some more conversations about some of the stuff that goes on in my brain and some of the stuff that goes on at MBM making business matter and sharing that with you. Can you briefly go over, so we’ve got a question coming. Can you briefly go over the return, the expletive again absolutely remembering that it is, it’s about your message. It’s not about you, it’s about the impact that you are gonna create, not about what you are wearing. It is about the actions that those people will take as a result of you share in that message. Not whether they, you think you’re gonna miss your content.
Nathan Simmonds:
We then need to get passionate. We then need to switch the emotions on because people buy emotions, you know, is they say that is when you’re going through a job interview or selling a product, people buy results, they buy a certain no, they don’t, they don’t. You know, I’m a leadership and career coach and you can go to a million career co million career and leadership coaches out there. Why you come to me is because of how I make you feel, because of the way that I ask the questions, because of the way it helps you to move.
Nathan Simmonds:
You could go to Bob Jane, whoever, you’ll come to me because of the emotions. So when I get passionate about what I’m doing, when I’m with an individual, people buy the experience. This part here is kind of the, the, the foundation, the bedrock of it is returning the whatever you’ve been given, you’ve been giving, sorry.
Nathan Simmonds:
So, you know, how much do I, how much ego am I letting overrun my system? Oh, well I did that, you know, last year. They won’t wanna listen to me. Oh, I failed at this. Oh my wife left me or I’ve ruined my business. Or I got disciplined because I said the wrong thing at the wrong time in my earlier leadership days. Or was fired from a job for whatever, turning up late once ’cause of whatever. I can’t do that because of this. So you start to stick these labels on yourself about what you think other people will think of you.
Nathan Simmonds:
And we start to play emotional buckaroo, you know, the old plastic horse where you put the things onto it and eventually the horse goes crazy and the all the contents got flies off the horse, off the off the mule. But what we need to understand, even from a leadership and a personal development point of view and a presentation point of view, is, you know, labels are Velcro not super glued. And we can change them at any given given time and we can learn to respond and react in very, very different ways based on that. But if I’m constantly worrying about what everyone else is thinking of me, I’m always gonna get stuck in a moment.
Nathan Simmonds:
And this will always be based on stuff that’s happened in the past. It’s like driving around in a car, constantly looking out the rear view mirror and wondering why you’re crashing into things. The problem is though, that rear view mirror more often not gets so big and so all encompassing it becomes as big as the the windscreen. And as a result of that, we have more accidents. And as we’re looking in the rear view mirror looking behind us, we then get to see more things to complain about, about why our life was such is, is so difficult moving forward.
Nathan Simmonds:
So we have to return all of the things that we’ve been giving that have been holding us back. What are we pushing all our energy into that is holding us back. So when you start to think like this about whether it’s presentations, your job, your career, your development, where your are going in life, your career aspirations, your life aspirations, the moment we stop that and we can start to understand that maybe a sustained past doesn’t lead to a stagnant future, we can change the dynamic of what we’re doing and what we’re delivering. ’cause We’ll be more passionate about where we’re at and what we can give and what we’re contributing.
Nathan Simmonds:
Hope that answers the question, Tim. Awesome. Thank you very much for today. I have had an absolute ball delivering here today and yesterday. If your teams actually lemme ask a different question, who hears teams would, would benefit from experiencing some of this content? Whether it’s presentation skills, whether it’s personal development, whether it’s coaching skills, who his teams would benefit from having a conversation with me and helping to share some of this content.
Nathan Simmonds:
Appreciate it, Colin. If you believe your team members and people in your teams would benefit from seeing some of this content, whether live, whether it’s as a virtual classroom, whatever we do have virtual classrooms available, please reach out. We’re gonna put a link into the box below for virtual classrooms in just a moment. Please reach out. Let’s have a conversation. I want to help you to help your teams know to be even more incredible than yesterday. I want to help you to develop them even further. So your business just goes from strength to strength.
Nathan Simmonds:
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