Descript Review (Digital Marketer’s Perspective)

Look at how I’ve been editing these videos believe it or not. I have had several people ask me: what am I using to edit these videos? The answer to that question is descript. I am a huge fan of this tool. The value descript offers content creators, marketers, Etc, is just so immense that I really do feel like everybody needs to know about this tool.

If I were to give you the value proposition of descript, in my own words, it can significantly shorten the amount of time it takes you to record videos. It will then undoubtedly make the editing and production process significantly faster and then finally, there’s a bunch of AI Andor marketing tools. You can then use with descript to dramatically improve the marketing effectiveness of your videos, getting them seen by more people all that type of stuff. If you are interested in creating YouTube videos, drip is a great tool because you’re going to be able to spend less time making videos and being able to publish videos faster before I was using drip. I was only able to do about probably one video per week and now I’m able to do two pretty consistently in a similar amount of time.

Now, in this video I’m not going to be giving you an entire tour into descript, because one there’s plenty of you know documentation type videos you can find from drip directly. All about that. I’M just going to be showing you exactly how I use it and we’ll be covering probably my top 10 features, while I end up showing you exactly how I’m doing it to edit the videos that I’m making for my business. So, if that sounds interesting to you definitely stick around for the whole video, because I think it would be pretty mind blown before we get into that, though, if you’re interested in learning all about how to improve your company’s branding website and digital marketing to ultimately generate more Leads and grow revenues then definitely subscribe to my YouTube channel.

I’Ve been putting out videos just like this one to two times per week, covering the topics I just mentioned and also make sure to like the video, because that’s very helpful, all right.

So, let’s just dive right into it, we’re now looking right in my descript account. As you can see, I have been using this for quite some time. There are a lot of videos in here and I just want to run you through the features that I’m using I’m in a descript project. This is a recent video, that’s probably already out by the time you’re watching this and the way descript differs from every other video editing tool is that most tools will have you edit, based on this timeline, feature which we’ll talk about in a second but drip is Different because it generates a transcription of everything you said in the video and then, if you want to make edits to what you say, then you just need to edit the transcript and it correspondingly will take place in the video itself. So, let’s just say this: I I think just didn’t make any sense and I’m like.

I just need to cut it. Then I just cut it there and it’s gone.

That’s how the editing works. Now I don’t want to do that, so I’m going to hit command Z and go back. This is huge because you don’t need to have a whole lot of editing or video experience or knowledge even to make videos. Now, if you know how to edit a word doc, you can edit a video essentially with descript, which is what makes it just such a cool, powerful tool and ultimately, there’s really just like nothing on the market like it right now. I want to cover Studio sound so with Studio sound. It essentially will edit the audio and use like this AI Al algorithm to edit it I’m not exactly sure how it works, but what I do know is that it definitely does add a much more. I don’t know you could almost call like a studio like sound to your voice, so I just want to play you one back example of where here it is off currently in this one video, I made about presenting creative work to clients.

So, let’s listen to the first sentence: really quick! What’s up everybody welcome back to the YouTube channel if you’re new here my name is Bailey canning so from there one, I’m using a road mic on my iPhone, so it is pretty good quality. I would say definitely much better than the standard iPhone mic but, as you can hear in the background, maybe there’s cars in the background there are some other things going on and my voice sounds slightly.

I don’t know, I guess a little Hollow, but if we turn on Studio sound it’s already on and you can adjust the intensity as well, I put it at 90 %, cuz, generally, 100 % seems a little overdone sometimes, but now, if we listen to it, what’s Up everybody welcome back to the YouTube channel if you’re new here my name is Bailey canning. I think it sounds a lot better. It says a lot Fuller and richer sounding and then also there is no background noise and there were cars is constantly coming in and out behind.

So, if you just know, you’re going to have some background noise, while you’re filming videos, whether you live on a busy street or you work from home – and you got kids who are crying in the background Studio sound is going to be super helpful. I do also think when it comes to making videos believe it or not, the audio is actually a bit more important than video, especially when you’re first starting out. So, if you just have an iPhone, that’s totally fine, but I would definitely recommend investing in something like a road mic or even this Yeti microphone. It’ll really do a lot to where you can probably get away with a $ 100 mic or so for a lot longer than you could for upgrading with something like the studio sound. I can’t tell you how many times it saved me from background noises.

I would have probably ruined the video it’s a great tool to have highly recommended.

Definitely one of the main features of using drip. The next thing I want to talk about is the fact of how it can automatically remove filler words. Let’s look at a video that I still need to edit. Why don’t we just take a look at this video that I already filmed the first parts of it.

Let’s see there are these filler words that it’s already highlighted here, I say: yeah lots. Sorry Mom! I know I got to get better at that, but with d script you can just literally have it say: remove filler words.

So there’s like this actions, toggle remove filler words, it’ll, highlight everything and then boom. One click remove all and they’re all gone looks like. I said 22 filler words and they’re. All gone very helpful saves a lot of time if you’re familiar with the traditional timeline editor of video tools. You know how long that would have just taken me to edit out one by one real, quick as you’re watching this video. If you would like to pick my brain on your company’s marketing strategy as a whole, then definitely feel free to book. A free strategy call with me link in the description you can book time directly on my calendar, but long story short.

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Essentially, if we go back to the actions toggle here and we just say short and word gap, so anything above 3 or seconds more, that’s generally what they recommend. You can see.

There’S 36 of those instances here and they’ve highlighted them here again. This is 36 separate edits I would have had to make if I was using something like iMovie, but with descript I can just hit short in all and then boom they’re all shorten and that just saved me a ton of time. Another feature I wanted to cover real quick, which I have not used, but it is quite a powerful feature if you wanted to use it is that there is this option to record over something you said. So maybe you just say it something. That’S like factually inaccurate or you just messed up a word or something and as you go back and look at the edit and you’re in the middle of the edit, you realize you messed up and it’s going to be very hard to go back into the video.

What you can actually just do is Dub over it, so you can re-record over it right at your desk and then it will essentially match up your lips or it’ll do the best it can using a variety of different AI tools, and then that way you can Then re-record over it, which could save an entire video quite frankly now another thing you can do with it, which I’m not even sure I’ll be able to do right now, is that you can record it directly into the script. So if you wanted to, you could go and record and then essentially it’s pulling up my iPhone right now. So let’s see you could record right into the script. If you really wanted to and then from there, you can then pause as you’re recording and all that type of stuff.

Now the reason why this is a really key feature, in my view, is that before I was using this recording the script feature. What I would generally do when creating videos was, I would just turn on my iPhone, and I would just record everything in one long cut, which was not an efficient way to do it because often times I would do the same segment like three or four times, And try to pick out the best one, but now with the recording the script feature, you can just record your videos as you go along. So you know 30 seconds here, 1 minute there 2 or 3 minutes there. You finish it up and then you can review as you’re doing it to make sure it’s a good cut and before you move on, so it’s saving me a lot of time.

It’s making that initial rough edit a lot faster. So now, if you’ve used this recording to script feature, you can save 20 30 minutes that you would have to do just cutting the initial edit of getting rid of all the duplicate talks you gave, and it just saves a lot more time again. So another huge time saving feature here also another thing worth noting is that descript has a built in screen recording feature. So, if you’re familiar with tools like Loom, it’s the same exact thing. This is really great because it’s actually what got me onto descript as well, because I think the intro starter plan is like between $ 10 to $ 15 a month or something like that and Loom itself is $ 10 a month or something like that again. Just to have the screen recording functionality, so descript has that already baked in, and it makes it a lot easier to edit again because again in descript, you can just edit based on the timeline and so yeah.

The screen recording is a great tool. Now, when it comes to adding effects in descript, it’s actually very easy and by effects I’m talking about like animations or just even text effects, add a lot more visual interest. So here you can see. This is a video I did all about like the benefits of web designer will help you bring to your business, but I was able to animate in very easily all of the points I was talking about. So these are some of the benefits. So just using this text tool you can just have a piece of text, so this says text and then I can just drag it right in and then I’m not going to go into like the scene’s functionality here CU.

That’s something you’re going have to learn on your own, but it’s super easy to make it disappear and appear as you need and yeah honestly in iMovie or Final Cut. I would have zero idea how to do this, but with drip I literally watched like a 2 or 3 minute video tutorial, and it became pretty clear how to do it really great for adding a lot more visual elements to your videos, which are ultimately going to Do a lot more to help people stick around one thing I would be remised if I did not point out, though, is also that, for you experienced video editors and I fall into this category, because I do know how to work with the timeline a bit.

Dripta still does give you the timeline option, so this is super helpful. If you need to do like advanced type edits, it does give you this option and there’s other tools. You can use right here, but it really does definitely want you to be using the main transcript as your primary editing tools, but just so you do know it does give you the timeline, which is huge. Another thing I wanted to point out with d script is that it makes it super easy to take this one long form video clip and then it turn into very short form clips of anywhere between 30 seconds and 2 or 3 minutes, which are super great for Just getting eyeballs on your content on social platforms and then ultimately driving people back to the longer form content.

So, as you can see in this project, I have a bunch of different clips that I have here.

So, this is like a 2-minute clip.

It looks like about the role the designer can play essentially, and so, if you do want to make Clips one, this makes it super easy to stay organized, especially if you’re working with a marketing team or you’re going to have a marketing person. Instead of just having a bunch of random files in iMovie, this makes it super easy, but for example, say I wanted to just find anything to clip out so say I like this starting here and then, let’s just say, it goes all the way to this.

For example, even though it doesn’t just stick with it, if I just hit copy to new composition right here, it’ll then take that one segment and then now it’s its own clip. So this makes it super easy, as you can see, for just social posts and for just staying organized and keeping all of your Clips organized another thing. I wanted to talk about real, quick and this is still in beta, but they did just recently buy out a company that offered podcast remote.

Recording. This feature is really only for podcasters or people doing interviews on their YouTube channel, but it is going to have a built-in remote recording studio, similar to Riverside, which is what I use for.

The interviews and podcasting on my channel Riverside is super powerful because it takes your local audio and video, which is going to be a lot higher quality than the audio and video being recorded over like a zoom or Google meet call, and essentially that’s going to be Built in right into descript I’d be curious if they raise their pricing because obviously they’d be pretty well Justified if they did, but it’s just huge because now, instead of paying Riverside, which I believe is like over $ 200 a year for the plan I’m on now, I can save it just by going all in on descript, so I’m going to wait till it’s out of beta and also probably until my Riverside plan expires next year, but I do think this is really cool. And last but not least, I definitely wanted to talk about all these AI tools which I’ve been using.

They just added these recently, although they did have a couple, but now they’ve really upped their AI games. What I’ve been using it for is automatically creating chapters which are super important. You can see here, chapter generator, so, for example, if I were to go into this video and it’s like how to turn your website into a lead generation machine. If I wanted to make the chapters which are super helpful for YouTube, I can just ask the AI now there’s a bunch of different AI tools. You can do as you can see, but I just want to add chapters and then I will take away this CU.

I don’t really care how many there are add chapters into the script.

It’s already it’s going to scan real, quick, clock, the entire video and then come up with chapters and it’ll be timestamped automatically, whereas it’s used to take me an extra-5 minute. Every single YouTube video to add in these chapters, which I think are super helpful, because I use them a lot when I’m watching YouTube videos, I definitely use the chapters. This is huge so right here I can tell you this is all pretty solid. So, if I add it to the script, I already have a solid understanding of where all the chapters go and then I can see the time stamp so 8:52. This will change. Obviously, like you can see the raw edits almost 30 minutes, but now I have all the chapters done. So that saves me a lot of time going back into what other AI tools they have.

You can now automatically turn it into a blog post or video there. Also, coming out with a crazy feature, I saw where you can upload your voice to descript and then you can give it a script and then it’ll have your AI generated voice over the script, so that you could use a podcast. Based on that. So honestly, I wasn’t expecting much from when I first saw that, but I watched the video quite honestly, it’s pretty compelling I’m not going to lie. If I didn’t know ahead of time, it was AI, I’m not sure I would know and again this is just like a new feature. Give it a year or two, I’m sure, it’ll be pretty amazing and then and then you can also find good Clips automatically, which is super helpful, especially if you have a long form podcast, so yeah, a ton of AI tools. They were ahead of the AI game.

They already had AI features like 2 or 3 years ago. So definitely a lot of stuff going on here, all right so yeah. That is how I am using dript as of this moment, to record edit and produce videos and then ultimately get them published onto YouTube and then the various different ways, I’m clipping out content and repurposing them on places like LinkedIn. Hopefully, you found this video to be very helpful. Hopefully you can see how descript might be able to work in your YouTube workflow and make producing videos a lot easier. Let me know if you have any questions, I think it’s a great marketing tool.

Um – it’s not just me saying this. I know a ton of people that I really respect in the marketing industry, colleagues of mine, that I know directly, who are all recommending drip and are all using it to produce content themselves, one last disclaimer in this video. I would say: descript is not meant to compete with Adobe Premiere, end or Final Cut, although I’ve recently saw in Premiere they added the transcription feature.

So it just shows you that descript is like a Pioneer in the video marketing space at the moment, but definitely, if you’re looking to do like super cinematic like 4K or 8K, videos that have like movie level production quality on YouTube, then yeah you’re definitely going to Be better suited with something like Adobe, Premiere or final Cod, but descript is not really trying to compete in that area. If you ask me, for my opinion, not knowing anything about the internal workings of the company, rather, they seem pretty clearly focused on like content creators. Podcasters marketers, Etc to be able to give them an easy way to create and edit videos and then ultimately giving them a variety of different publishing tools, so they can get those videos in front of as many people as possible.

It’s always very interesting to see. What’s the latest features are going to be in drip?

I really couldn’t recommend enough.

I’M on the highest tier plan, I PID for it a year in advance. It’s great. I love it yeah.

It’s really made everything I’m doing quite honestly, possible cuz. If I was going with iMovie, this would all be a lot harder, quite frankly, hopefully, if you’re an in-house marketer or a business owner, you can see how you can implement this into your content. Marketing workflow, if you have any questions, leave them in the comments I’ll.

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Cracking the Code: Ultimate Team Performance, the Google Way

You know, what makes the best teams and Google is not exactly new Google studies is back in 2012, looking at all their teams through their project Aristotle, to outline what are the five key factors that makes a team effective. In this video, I will walk you through those five key factors and also making sure that you have tools to implement those key factors in your team ready for an upgrade. My name is Greg Enjalbert. I’ve had about a 20 year corporate career when I went from being a trainee to eventually a vice president and managing director of a business and I went from managing just one person myself to eventually about 1000 people.

Today, I’m a master coach, helping people team and organization to know themselves to design their future selves and to become their future selves project.

Aristotle was a study research at Google that was about finding what makes team effective.

The study began in 2012. And it involves hundreds of interviews from different teams, 180 teams across Google and the researchers analyzed a range of factors which included the team composition, the communication patterns, and also the work practices of each team.

It is called Aristotle, because it’s related to a quote from Aristotle, which is the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. That is, Google’s study was very much based on data, the team used a mix of qualitative and quantitative methods, including interviews, surveys, and observational data, and also use machine learning algorithm to sift through all this large amount of data that they collected with regards to what effectiveness meant for Google, it meant an evaluation which was done by the executive evaluation of the team, the team leader evaluation of the team, the team member evaluation of the team, and also sales performance against quarterly quota.

So it was a mix of quantitative objectives and at the same time, some important cultural objectives and without further ado, the five key elements. Number one is psychological safety. The second one is dependability, then you have structure and clarity, meaning and finally, impact. Psychological safety is a concept that refers to the degree to which individuals in a team organization feel safe to take interpersonal risk, such as expressing ideas, asking question or admitting mistakes without fear of negative consequences, or why is that good, it allows for open and honest communication.

With collaboration and experimentation, the team is more likely to identify problems and opportunities, it is also more likely to propose innovative solutions, and that makes a team work together to achieve their personal and team goals.

Amy Edmondson who is a professor at Harvard first coined the term psychological safety. In 1999. She did a study in 2003 That shows that 16 Operating Room teams learning to use a new technology for cardiac surgery with once we had the highest psychological safety were successful in implementing it compared to the ones who did not. So we certainly want to see psychological safety in the health industry. Here are some practical ways that you can implement psychological safety in your team start each team meeting with a checking exercise where each team member will be sharing, how they feel, what they’re working on, and also what challenges they’re facing foster active listening ways measuring how much time everybody is taking in meetings to talk, because you want to make sure that everyone is heard.

And check at the end of the meeting. Ask yourself Are we all understood the same thing from this meeting? Do we know where we’re going, you can also do a feed forward exercise individually where each person share what they want to improve, and each person is giving a suggestion to that person about how to improve if you want to know more about this exercise, check here. Psychological safety is essential about building trust. And if you want to build trust, check out this video here and you will see plenty of practical exercises for how you can do this.

Dependability refers to the degree to which team members can rely on each other to get things done on dependable teams member reliably complete quality work on time, the opposite of that is to shirk responsibility.

So what is dependability? Good offers people take responsibility for their work. They communicate clearly about their progress and roadblocks. And they’re committed to delivering results.

Here are some practical ways that you can use to increase dependability between team members. For example, Google uses the OKR system – objective, key results – to make sure that they have clear expectations between team members. whatever tool you use, make sure that you start by having that in place and make sure that there is also an interaction between team members To ensure that every goal is understood clearly by each team member build clear definitions of each person’s roles and I use the plural for roles here because each person in a job might have different roles to play. And each role is usually attached to a domain of responsibility which needs to be clearly defined act as a facilitator for your team members success be a connector to resources in the organization that you people should have access to mentor on topics that you know well and that your team members would benefit to learn from.

And finally, coach your team members so they can find their own solutions to their problem, dependability as a clear link to the concept of meaning, impact and motivation, because people can only work really dependably, if they know why they’re doing, what they’re doing and the impact that they’re producing.

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Structure and clarity refers to the degree to which team members understand their roles and responsibility and understand the team goals. It is also the process of fulfilling those expectation and also the impact that each team member is having on the team effectiveness. So why is it good to have structure and clarity, it makes it easier to coordinate efforts and collaborate.

You can also allocate resources more efficiently, there’s usually a reduction in conflicts as people don’t overlap on their roles. People are fully accountable for their roles so there’s no shirking and decisions are faster because people are pulling in the same direction.

Here are some practical ways that you can use to build structure and clarity in your team.

Ask yourself, how much am am I allocating every week to share critical information with my team? And what is that essential information that my team might need to have? Have you actually asked them? How are you setting up your objectives individually?

And as a team? Have you reserved the time for this? And same as for dependability, use the concept of roles of domains and the person who is in charge of those domains? To clarify roles and responsibilities in the team? How do you ensures that information is shared efficiently and without taking too much time and adds the right level of quality and quantity for the effectiveness of your team.

All of those points are not about telling your team what to do it is about you facilitating individual and collective discussions for what needs to happen in the team. Meaning refers to the sense of purpose and fulfilment that team members derive from their work. It’s not only the personal meetings that people have in their work, it’s also houses personal meaning is applied to the meaning that there is for the team’s work. So why do we need meaning because if leverage is the key human need, which is to have purpose in our life, and it unifies your team with a shared view of the world and what your team is fighting for, it makes every team member feel special individually with a personal meaning and at the same time, feel a sense of community with a shared meaning. Here are some practical ways that you can bring meaning into your team’s work, do a personal core values, icebreaker exercise with your team.

Ask them to pick one core value, something that really matters in their lives, something that helps them decide what’s right or wrong in their life and ask them to write down why that value is important to them. Then once they all have their core values and split your team into pairs, and makes them share with each other their core value, then repeat as much as you want with many different people and different core values. also review your organization values. What does your team relate their personal values to the organization’s values? How can you create a wording that is specific to your team about the core values that there is in the organization and the meanings that it has for your team.

And when you talk about personal development plans, make sure that you’re linking that personal development to the team values and at the same time the personal values of the person. If you want to work more on building meaning in your team, then check out this video here which talks about the interaction that there is into personal values, team values and organization values.

Impact refers to the degree to which team members believe their work is making a meaningful difference. The impact here is about the organization’s goals though it can also be about a broader stakeholder impact. It can be about other employees, it can be about shareholders, it can be about the broader community around the organization.
So why having impact is important for team effectiveness.

We build our personal life story based on milestones and having impact Act is a measurable way of building that story. And he drives engagement in a big way, because people are feeling that they’re moving towards something which matters and engage people don’t leave an organization, it drives people to learn more, so they can have an even bigger impact. It creates a positive reputation for your team and the team members, which in turn will bring more trust and will make your team actually a magnet for talent.

Here are some practical ways that you can ensure that your team and your team members have impact have you defined what your team’s impact is on all its stakeholders, I think golden result is not the same thing as worrying what is the positive or negative impact that your team can have on others.

If your team is having positive impact, or even negative impact, make sure that you have systems that allow for the negative feedback to come back. And also for the acknowledgement of all the positives that you do from all its stakeholders, having an impact is great hearing it from the people that you’re impacting. That’s the real thing. If you’ve worked on the personal values of the members, then you will probably discover that people would like to have an impact outside of the organization.

And that’s an opportunity for you to discuss as a team, what could be team activities that you do which are outside of the organization for broader impact, have an impact is also about positively impacting the people around us with the way that we respect them and also acknowledge them.

A great way to do this is to know and use your love language. And if you’re intrigued, check out this video to know more. As you’ve probably guessed by now, there are some clear links between the different factors, the five factors that we’ve talked about for team effectiveness, so they reinforce each other you work on one will happen also when if you work on the five, it becomes a lot more powerful. Make sure if one thing is about those five factors is make sure that you know where you stand for each one of them. It’s hard to improve if you do not know what the gap is, as your team member the following that can be done whether individually or you can do it anonymously, depending on what you prefer.

How would you rate each one of the five factors of team effectiveness? If you put a rating from one to 10? What would it be once you know where the biggest gap is? As a question? What can we do to get better at this?

And also think about it from an individual perspective. Can your team members do a feed forward exercise on that factor of improvement one to one with other people in the team? I’ll leave you with a quote from Vince Lombardi, a famous sports coach individual commitment to a group effort. That is what makes a team work, a company work society work to civilization work. The five factors that we discuss are also supported by psychological needs that every human needs to fulfil to be truly motivated.

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Knowing Your Audience

Good day everybody, and welcome to the show. Today’s episode and the upcoming series is about knowing your audience in meetings, presentations, and conversations in general.

Why is that important? It’s pretty easy. Think about it.

You already know your thoughts. You know what you want to say. You know your story, your slides, whatever. But they don’t. So essentially, you’re never talking for yourself.
You’re doing it for others.

And in order to have a successful conversation, it is crucial that you understand who you are talking to. What do they expect? What do they need? How are they ticking?

What is the context? What are they able to understand and so on. To put it in a nutshell, if you don’t know your audience: imagine your boss asks you to give a presentation to a group of potential customers. This has happened to me too. So I created great, more or less self-explanatory slides.

In my opinion, an excellent job. The slides were in German. But before I went to the lectern I realized that no one in the audience spoke German, only English.

Also, most of the audience were not tech savvy, but my presentation was to show how capable I am, a Tech Masterclass. Also, my English business vocabulary wasn’t very strong at that point, so in short: useless slides, content that missed the audience completely, and I literally didn’t have the words I needed.

So, I would like to point out some important aspects and advantages of knowing your audience well enough before you address them, just in case you’re trying to achieve a goal.

I mean, if you are more the monologue type, then of course you can skip this episode. If you want to avoid misunderstandings, it’s important to find the right language for your audience. I’m not talking about foreign languages. Well, they’re important, yes, but I’m mean technical jargon and figurative language.

Technical jargon may be suitable for a specialist conference, for example, but not for general audience.

Similarly, diagrams and statistics are very welcome in management meetings, but stock photos surely are not. These would be better suited to a marketing conference. And where do you wanna see code? Only where you can read code and where you can understand code and where code issues matter.

People generally have a short attention span and little patience. So be precise, relevant, and understandable. Otherwise, you will lose people after a short time. And if nobody listens or follows you, it doesn’t matter how brilliant your content is. Another aspect is the right tone.

Your tone should match the expectations and preferences of your audience.

A formal tone might be expected in academic or professional settings, while a more casual tone might be suitable for informal gatherings or creative spaces. Understanding your audience helps you to adopt the appropriate tone and language. By understanding the background, interests and level of knowledge of your audience, you can tailor your message to make it more relevant and engaging for them. This ensures that your content is appropriate and accessible, whether it involves simplifying complex topics for beginners or delving deeper for experts.

If your customers are selling cars, it makes no sense showing them a demo of someone selling clothes ’cause they won’t be emotionally attached, which makes influencing or let’s say even persuading them impossible. But if you know that background, you can show them value for their domain, speak the language, and solve their problems, which will for sure resonate with them. When you talk to non technicians, it’s never about explaining the exact solution anyway. Nobody will understand that.

It’s about explaining the principle in such a way that the technical jargon becomes completely irrelevant.

Let me give you an example. I was in a meeting once where we had to present our API. It turned out that the people were already lost with the vocabulary API. So that was a problem. They had no idea what it meant.

And suddenly someone got a bit courageous and asked about it, and then our tech guy explained it pretty much like this. API stands for application programming interface. In the context of APIs, the word application refers to any software with a distinct function.

Interface can be thought of as a contract of service between two applications. This contract defines how the two communicate with each other using requests and responses.

Standing ovation, ah, no, everyone was even more confused. We needed an idea. So I stood up and I pointed at the socket on the wall and said, that’s pretty much the API for electricity, your electricity interface, so to say. If you need power for an electrical device, then you need a plug, your input. The plug and the socket are normed.

Every plug has two thin metal pins, two centimeters apart that match every socket. If you plug it in, it will give you electricity. Exactly 230 volts at 69 ampere every time. That’s an API contract, a defined input, a defined interface, and defined outcome. I’ve used figurative example from the public domain that everyone more or less can relate to without using a single programming vocabulary.

Nevertheless, the principle was clear to everyone afterwards. Every time I give a presentation at a conference, I ask the organizers in advance about the typical audience.

How old are they? What is their professional background? Do they tend to be men or women?

What nationality are they? Why are they coming to this conference? And so on and so on.

This gives me a pretty good idea of the audience and what they’re likely to expect from my presentation. Listen, you can exceed expectation and that’s the jackpot.

But if you don’t meet expectations because they expected something else, it doesn’t matter how good your presentation is. Unfulfilled expectations are called disappointments, and you don’t want that. So my advice, prepare yourself. Victory loves preparation. Let’s make a simple template comparison to see how clearly the expectations of our immediate environment already differ.

Take a look at the following groups of colleagues, marketing and brand sales, direct supervisors, upper management, and customers to understand exactly what someone expects. You need to ask yourself the right questions to put yourself in the shoes of the person or group in question.

It is an advantage if you try to see the world through their eyes. Ask yourself, what are their KPIs? KPIs are key performance indicators, IE key figures that measure success progress or the degree to which objectives have been met.

What does the target group want to hear from me? What are the common problems? What should I definitely tell them and what should I definitely not tell them? What are the typical contact situations? And of course, as always, you should ask yourself the question, how can I benefit from the target group?

In short, if you’re one of those people who like to communicate efficiently and successfully, then I strongly advise you to prepare well for meetings, presentations or any other type of communication. There are many different ways to get a message across. The goal is to recognize the right way. To do this, you need information about the target group. So stay tuned because we’ll fill our information templates in the upcoming episodes, But I can already anticipate the most important information because it applies to all target groups.

Nobody, except for software engineers is interested in technical jibber jabber, and why should they? That’s what you are there for.

Tech is complicated and only for experts, but what it does can be explained to non-experts. So, see you soon.

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