by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sometimes we just don’t understand when someone else doesn’t understand.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I was recently attending a meeting online. This was one of those ZoomerTeams things where the PowerPoint was on the screen and the presenter was talking in a room with one of those microphones on the conference table.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I couldn’t understand what the presenter was saying. Once an hour I would say something like, “Excuse me, I don’t understand what the presenter is saying.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Speechless confusion followed. “What? How can you possibly not understand what we are saying?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n I proceeded to explain about microphones and facing the microphone instead of facing into the computer screen and speaking clearly instead of with a hand on the jaw and all sorts of basic presentation skills and the like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Can you understand us now?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Yes, I can because you are now facing the microphone and trying to speak in an understandable manner.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Then the meeting would resume and the speaker would speak into the computer screen while leaning their jaw on their hand and speaking quickly with hems and haws and such. I couldn’t understand. I would say that once an hour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I gave up. Just my problem. I guess I need to improve myself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Or maybe we could all do a little better at these things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Dwayne Phillips Sometimes we just don’t understand when someone else doesn’t understand. I was recently attending a meeting online. This was one of those ZoomerTeams things where the PowerPoint was on the screen and the presenter was talking in a room with one of those microphones on the conference table. I couldn’t understand what […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,32,63,477,312,275,257],"tags":[225,154,183,478,313,276,258],"class_list":["post-4147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clarity","category-communication","category-expectations","category-honesty","category-humility","category-listening","category-respect","tag-clarity","tag-communication","tag-expectations","tag-honesty","tag-humility","tag-listening","tag-respect"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4147","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=4147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4148,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4147\/revisions\/4148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}