By Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Time is a marvelous tool. Allow time between an action or event and the reaction or the feedback for the event.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I have spoken at large gatherings many times in my career (500 or 600 persons attending, most of them staying awake). I enjoy it. When I am finished speaking, I am full of adrenaline or the mental equivalent of that. I have been backstage when performers finish performances. Same thing with them. They are excited and more excited.<\/p>\n\n\n\n One thing usually happens when coming offstage or finishing a talk. All that excitement clogs the ears. I cannot hear anything people are telling me. Of course my ears are working. Of course I hear their words, but ask me one minute later what someone told me, and, well, I don\u2019t know. I have observed the same with professional performers. For a few moments after the performance, they don\u2019t take anything in. The input is blocked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There needs to be some time between the act and the react. There needs to be some time for the person to return to a normal state of mind so that their input is open and they can hear words and comprehend them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n When a performer or speaker steps off the stage and asks, \u201dHow did I do?\u201d Answer, \u201dLet\u2019s talk later.\u201d Otherwise, the reaction is lost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And now we bring this blog post to the real world of work. Someone walks in with a draft of a report. \u201dJust finished this. Tell me what you think,\u201d they say with sparkles of excitement gushing from their eyes. Answer, \u201dLet\u2019s talk later.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n A group of persons just deploys a new version of software. Same words, \u201dTell us what you think.\u201d Same answer, \u201dLet\u2019s talk later.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is why a project retrospective should be conducted a while after the project ends. This is why a book review should be delivered a while after the book is published. When the reaction quickly follows the action, the words fall to the floor. <\/p>\n\n\n\n What do you think of this blog post? Let\u2019s talk later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Dwayne Phillips Time is a marvelous tool. Allow time between an action or event and the reaction or the feedback for the event. I have spoken at large gatherings many times in my career (500 or 600 persons attending, most of them staying awake). I enjoy it. When I am finished speaking, I am […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,425,275,108,419,35],"tags":[154,426,276,222,420,157],"class_list":["post-3661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communication","category-event","category-listening","category-reaction","category-talk","category-time","tag-communication","tag-event","tag-listening","tag-reaction","tag-talk","tag-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3662,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3661\/revisions\/3662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}