TJ WALKER - THE HABIT INFLUENCER - Personal Development | LIVE STREAM

It's lunchtime. We're taking a break here. It's the middle of a media training day. We have a lot of lunch brought in. People are milling about, eating. If you are in charge of a meeting, in charge of a training, realize it's not necessarily the ums and uhs that people are going to remember. They are going to remember if you consistently start late, if you penalize them for being late, if you keep them late, if you end the meeting late. And folks, this often shows up on evaluations. I'm not universally loved by every speaking audience, but I can tell you the evaluations do show I start on time. I end on time, often a couple of minutes early. So you've got to factor in time for people to have lunch, time for restrooms, restroom breaks. But if you say you're going to start at 9, start at 9. Even if everyone isn't there, you say you're going to end at 5, end at 5. Or better yet, end at 4. 55. It's attention to little details like this that often make a much bigger impact on the audience and your evaluations than the occasional ah or.