In a world filled with distractions and devices, our attention span has shortened over the years. So how do we ensure that our important messages break through the clutter? These three short Ted Talks from expert communicators offer tips.
Whether you are an academic, a scientist, a CEO, or a manager, your messages are competing for attention with the latest viral cat video. Jim VandeHei shares what he’s learned about delivering messages that break through over his years in journalism and in leading two media companies, Politico and Axios. In his 15-minute presentation, he talks about how to radically rethink the way you write to keep people’s attention in a distracted digital world.
What’s the best way to make a good point? Organizational psychologist Niro Sivanathan offers a fascinating lesson on the “dilution effect,” a cognitive quirk that weakens our strongest cases — and reveals why brevity is the true soul of persuasion.
Often it feels like the only thing we can agree on is that we can’t agree on anything. World debate champion Julia Dhar offers three techniques to reshape the way we talk to each other so we can take our disagreements somewhere fruitful — over family dinners, during work meetings, and in our national conversations.