I was recently at a convention for professional communicators and public relations people. All of the speakers and all of the attendees were in the business of communicating messages well—and getting paid for it.
And yet I was struck by how many speakers seemingly didn’t care if their audience could even see them. One speaker had recently gone through leg surgery and didn’t want to stand for his hour long presentation—understandably. But, he then proceeded to sit down behind a table from a position that was impossible to see by one third of the audience because he was hidden by a large wooden lectern.
