John JonasOwner, OnlineJobs.ph · Scale Your Business with Filipino VAs

Giving clear instructions #ytshort

16 Jan 2024 · 0 min

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A short advice clip by John Jonas on how to give clearer instructions: when someone makes a mistake, repeat the instructions, recognize that obvious things to you may not be obvious to others, and prefer screen recordings to typing because they allow faster, clearer demonstration. The content emphasizes repeating guidance and using screen recordings to talk through tasks.

Obviously, we don't always know when we're giving clear instructions or not, but when they do something wrong, give instructions again, go through it again, and recognize that maybe there are things in this that you understand that seem obvious to you, but that they don't know yet and aren't obvious to them. I almost always do this with screen recordings, partially because I'd rather talk through something than type it, and partly because it's way faster to just show it exactly than to try and explain it in an email.