Speaker 3
I think I have a pretty straightforward answer to your question, Matt. And my answer would be that someone is an authentic communicator when they are the same person in public speaking that they are in private. That is, you don't see a change in the character, the demeanor, or even the things the person says. They're really the same person. And I think if you say someone's an authentic communicator, that's a great compliment because it says that they're really natural when they're speaking in public and they're not gonna tell you something different than they would have in private.
Speaker 2
Yeah, interesting. So being that same person speaking the same way. I don't know if you have any data on this, Glenn, but I'm just curious. When we all move to virtual communicating or communicating in an intermediated way, I think a lot of us became inauthentic just because we had so much to pay attention to. I mean, we've got all these volumes and buttons and all this. Do you have any instinct as to the difficulty that virtual communication had on authenticity or its impact on authenticity? So
Speaker 3
I don't have any data and I haven't seen any really good research on that. I mean, my impression is pretty similar to yours. I think that a lot of people became what I would consider much more artificial when they're online than they were in person. On the other hand, you see the same thing, you know, when people get up and speak in person sometimes. It's not just a virtual setting where you see that you think like, wow, that's a different person. I've had people say, well, I don't know, just something happens and I become a different person when I'm speaking. I don't necessarily think that's a bad thing. Some people are probably better communicators when they're doing that, but it does make you wonder what's going on that makes a person change.
Speaker 2
Absolutely. Well, maybe there's some research and collaboration that we can do on that because I'm fascinated by how the environment influences people's authenticity. Before we end, I'd like to ask both of you the same three questions I ask everybody who joins me. Are you guys up for that? Yeah, absolutely. Excellent. All right, we'll start with you, Glenn. If you were to capture the best communication advice you have ever received as a five to seven word presentation slide
Speaker 3
title, what would it be?
