Hi everyone welcome to the A6 and Z podcast I'm sonal and I'm here today with an

episode all about one thing but also many things which is how to moderate and I don't

mean moderate in life like everything in moderation I mean it in the sense of moderating

when you're speaking whether managing or participating in a meeting presenting a

talk doing a panel or live discussion even a a podcast, and more.

We also go deep on something that's top of mind right now given the pandemic, which is that

many knowledge workers who have the privilege and ability to work from home are now

communicating entirely online and virtually and many will probably

continue to do so well beyond.

So how does that change moderation?

Where do the differences between in-person and remote as well as the evolution of tech and tools

come in. Our special guest for this episode is Matt Abrams who's a lecturer on

strategic communication and virtual communication at Stanford's graduate school of business,

where he also has a podcast called Think Fast Talk Smart.

He's a principal and co-founder of Bold Echo,

a firm that helps executives and anyone really

who wants to improve their communication, learn new skills, or just improve upon and sharpen their existing skills.

Our conversation offers frameworks and lots of concrete tips for moderation across all kinds of modes and mediums, including covering

how to manage unruly discussions, how to prep and the tensions between being scripted versus

not, how to manage ticks, how to translate physical and

nonverbal presence even in virtual environments, differences between parasocial and social

interactions, does that change things? tips for managing speaker anxiety and how to structure a panel,

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