Get Your Point Across in Meetings by Dianna Booher - Tip 1
Channel: Dianna Booher - Communication Strategist & Author
Date: 11/04/2012

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Executive Communication Expert Dianna Booher
--- Communication Skills:  1st Tip to Get Your Point Across in Meetings
Be Obscure. 
Try the direct-mail approach. Start with a provocative or intriguing statement to get people's attention and whet their appetites for the main course. For example, here's an obscure statement that would make me say, "Tell me more. What do you mean by that?"  What if you said:
---"So maybe we should hire only those with NO experience in this industry."   OR:
---"I've got an idea: Let's beat them at their own game." 
When the point's "not all there," you'll grab people's attention for your elaboration to follow.