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Four Essential Tools to Make Your Messages Stickier

Anchors, signposts, echoes, and loops help prepare listeners and reinforce your messages

Kate Zabriskie
Mon, 01/03/2022 - 12:02
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They’re with me, I just know it, at least I think they’re with me... OK, maybe not. Oh no! They’re gone. Well, thank goodness that’s over!

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Has that happened to you? How about the following:

• I addressed this issue 30 minutes ago. How did they forget so soon? They have minds like sieves—easy in and easy out. Frustrating!

• He seemed surprised when I called on him. It’s his area of expertise. He kind of recovered, but imagine what would have happened if he hadn’t known the topic. Frankly, it wasn’t a great moment for either of us.

Too often, trainers, facilitators, and speakers think people are with them and retaining information, but in truth, they’ve misheard, drawn incorrect conclusions, taken mental vacations to the Bahamas, or worse.

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Submitted by Jennifer Wolfe (not verified) on Tue, 01/04/2022 - 13:58

Four Essential Tools to Make Your Messages Stickier

Thank you for an excellent article, well written, to the point and much needed for . 

I loved it and will use it as soon as possible.

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