Moment 47 - The Power of Good Communication: Nick Jenkins

Uh In terms of skills as well as an entrepreneur, you I heard you talk about public speaking being integral to You did public speaking at university. The skill I think that's important is the ability to be able to persuade people of your ideas. Not necessarily public speaking, but in every meeting that you go to, you need to be able to look people in the eye and convince them that your idea is right. And and that could be in a sales role, it could be sitting around a table with a bunch of developers and one of them saying, I think this is the right way forward. If you can't articulate yourself properly, then you're never going to be listened to. And that's a skill I think is is um

Uh it's being recognised in schools. I'm I I do a lot in education now. So I I I see now more and more they recognize that that's a skill that is really important that people you should be able to look someone in the eye and be able to explain yourself very very coherently. I I tend to actually believe I'd go one step further and think I can't think of a more important skill in life than business. Then we I call I I refer to it as sales. Because and when we think of sales, we think of trying to get cash out of someone else's pocket by giving them something. But I think of it as like meet a girl in a nightclub, you know, try and communicate your idea to your team. Investors, employees. Um everyone you encounter I think is a to some degree you're trying to sell something and it's usually yourself. Yeah but and it those that are if you think about how that compounds over the over seventy years of your life, being good or bad at that one skill, will anything change the trajectory of your life more than being a com like a good salesperson?

And and that comes as you say from being un able to articulate yourself and speak and Yeah. And just think coherently and put down A logical argument. That people think, Yes, okay, I get that, I understand it. How does one get better at that? I think a lot of that's practice.

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