Welcome to Manager Tools. Today's show, Routine Town Hall meetings. Part 2. Here we go. Tell me about the logistics and physical space.

Yeah, I mentioned earlier about physical space being a factor for skip levels, but bigger rooms and bigger audiences are fine.

And from the standpoint of scheduling and efficiency and the singularity of your message, right?

Not having to say the same thing 50 times, you don't have to say it five or six times, is way better, but look,

you get to a bigger room and most people say, oh, it's just a meeting.

It's not really just a meeting anymore when you've got 100 people in a room.

Most of you are going to need a microphone. I don't, but you don't speak every

week like I do. You're probably going to want a lavalier, microphone, a lapel microphone. It's

wireless, but that sometimes takes weeks with your IT departments to set up.

You may feel you need a podium to stand on.

I hate podiums.

I think they shall be turned into firewood and put in my fireplace at this time of year.

But some people like to anchor themselves to it with white knuckles at the side.

And if that's the place you're going to start,

and you can actually talk to 200 people

while standing

white knuckle lit a podium, okay fine, start there.

But if you give three or four of these

the next couple of years and you're still standing white knuckle

to podium, don't ask why you're not a chief administrative officer or chief

operating officer or chief executive officer because that matters.

Your ability to be a compelling public speaker for large groups matters at

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