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The 500 Pound gorilla! For more follow @blair.singer

Name: The 500 Pound gorilla! For more follow @blair.singer
Uploaded: 2025-03-14T07:50:38Z
Channel: Blair Singer
Description: Short motivational talk (YouTube) by Blair Singer teaching a simple technique — phrased as "as is it" — to revive engagement in meetings or training…

14 Mar 2025

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Short motivational talk (YouTube) by Blair Singer teaching a simple technique — phrased as "as is it" — to revive engagement in meetings or training sessions by directly calling out observable group disengagement (the "500 pound gorilla"). The speaker explains expected outcomes: re-engagement, safe correction if wrong, or surfacing hidden resistance that may be sabotaging efforts.

How do you resurrect the energy of any kind of a group? Very, very simple technical terms called as is. And it's one simple question. In other words, let's say you're conducting a meeting and everybody's nodding their head, they're agreeing with you, but you have this sneaking suspicion that they're not buying in. What do you do? Stop right there and what we call as is it. As is it. Call it out. It's the 500 pound gorilla in the room. By saying you're nodding your heads, but I get this sneaking suspicion that not everybody's buying in. What's going to happen? A couple things could happen. Number one, for sure, they're all going to wake up and engage. Number two, you might be wrong, but there's no penalty for being wrong because you resurrected them and found out what was really going on. And number three thing that happens is you might surface something that could be sabotaging all of your efforts. Either way, it's a plus. If you're a trainer, the same thing happens in a room. You get a feeling that the room is kind of dying, that people.