One of my very favorite things to do in the entire world is to empower other people and to help them become their best. There is such an incredible bliss in seeing other people get jazzed about the possibilities of something that it fills me with a wonderfully warm fuzzy feeling all day. Today was one of those days where I got to empower people and support them as they shared their knowledge with the world.
We’ve launched a new lunch and learn training program at work called Technovations and one of my responsibilities is to work with the speakers to make sure they have their presentations done and that they’re prepped to do their speech. Technovations isn’t part of anyone’s job description so the presentations sometimes get hurried if we get busy with other things and don’t have time to do the prep work we’d like to. We also have varying levels of speaking experience, so it’s a mixed bag and sometimes difficult to predict how things we’ll work out. I worked with the guys this week on their presentation and helped them out as much as I could.
Our help desk guys presented today and I could tell they were really nervous starting out and they were reading their slides, but as they got in it and gathered confidence in what they were doing, they started doing better and better and connecting with the crowd. I stepped in a few times at the beginning to coach them and help get the material back on track, but by the end of the presentation, they were interacting with the audience like pros and starting to really get into sharing their knowledge with the audience.
The energy in the room became palpable because the more our presenters got into the material, the more interested in the topic. It was incredible to watch the “Ah Ha” moments as people learned something new and to watch the confidence on our presenter’s faces as they realized that the folks they were presenting to were people just like them and everyone wanted them to succeed
Truly cool and blissful stuff when you get to empower other people to better themselves.
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