How to Get Your Boss's Boss to Understand

Whether you’re facilitating a strategic planning session or chairing a formal board meeting, your job is not to be the smartest person in the room. Your job is to create the conditions where the group can do its best thinking and make defensible decisions.

This is good news for technical professionals. You don’t need to be the most polished speaker in the room. You don’t need to be the most charismatic. You don’t need to deliver the perfect slide. What you need is a communication system you trust.

Removing the entertainment techniques does not mean stripping out engagement. Engagement is essential. It means stripping out the parts of public speaking that are designed to entertain rather than inform.