The first question i always ask is, who is your audience and what do they care about most? And i'll give you an example of why this matters in two thousand one. Apple and steve jobbscame out with the original eepod. The engineers were really excited because it was going to be five gigobites of data. But if they came out with this message to audiences and customers, less exciting. They didn't know what that means. Instead they said, a thousand songs in your pocket. I remember that, yes. So they spoke in a way that was alined with their audiences level of knowledge and what they cared about. We have to communicate concisely
As communicators, we often need to take complex information (e.g., financial, technical, or scientific) and make it more understandable for our audience – we’re experts and they likely aren’t. But having so much knowledge on the topics we discuss can often make the job more difficult: we dive in too quickly, forget about our audience's needs, or use jargon that goes over their heads.
In this episode of Think Fast, Talk Smart, strategic communications lecturers Matt Abrahams and Lauren Weinstein explore the “curse of knowledge” and offer specific techniques you can use to be more successful in getting your point across.
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