The episode (6 minutes) was recorded at 1330 Central European Time, on October 21, 2022, with Ringr app.. Martin did the editing and post-production with the podcast maker, Alitu. The transcript is generated by Alitu.
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Speaker A:
Welcome to Presentation Skills Q and A. I am Martin Lindoscope.
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Hi, Karina.
Speaker B:
Hi Martin.
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How are you today?
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I'm doing fine.
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Yourself?
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Yes, I'm fine.
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It's a lovely autumn.
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Lovely colors.
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Yellow and orange and Indian summer, as.
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You say in American English.
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Yes, Indian summer.
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Absolutely.
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Last week or last episode, should I say, we were talking about communication handshake and
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we have talked about the eye contact and how much it really means when you meet someone.
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What do you think about that? How do you use your arms and hands when you
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are talking or describing something? Or something?
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That's the challenge.
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Also, what it signals out is nonverbal
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communication.
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We have always if somebody is having their
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arms in the cross, so to speak, or over your chest, or if you have your hands in your
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pockets, or what do you do with your hands because you are thinking what you are saying.
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But the whole body should be relaxed and into this task that you are doing.
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That's something that I've thought about.
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And the challenge.
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Where do you put your hands so it will look natural but also not getting strained or
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stressed or not comfortable?
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Yeah, that could be difficult because when you're nervous as well, maybe
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your hands get sweaty and if you put them on the surface, it gets wet.
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And that is so embarrassing.
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That's why I think sometimes people take their
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hands and hold them tight to their body.
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What I think when I have presentation and if you have that possibility,
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is to use some kind of props.
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So I could have you I'm talking about new
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media, social media, smartphones, and then I could hold up an iPhone, for example, or an
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iPad, or as I have a podcast together with two others called you One and U one Pen meets
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Paper.
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Have a pen in your head or writing on a board
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or something like that.
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So hold something.
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Yes. And when you're talking about length, amount, wideness and so on, you can
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show that with your hands, so that your body and the topic that you are talking about is
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going together.
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And that also is very important that when you
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move your body, you don't do it.
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You just stand not on the right foot, left
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foot and side to side you use your arms and hence so they are not stiff.
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For example, trex arms.
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Yeah, that sounds old school.
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Trex, like the dinner's house.
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But I could see it in front of me.
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I don't see each other as you know.
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No, but I have an image now.
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Yeah.
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There was another name in Van Mal kingdom, penguin arms.
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Yeah, I used to call it the Penguin syndrome.
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Yeah, penguin syndrome.
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And that can happen to you when you are nervous.
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For example, then you can get these penguin arms or T rex arms that you don't use them at
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all.
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Okay, so that's a sharemanship.
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And maybe that could be included in the show
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notes, examples of it or what to think about and also to reflect about that, because I
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think it could be an issue for many people.
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What should I do with their hands?
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It's like this serious soap, like when Bert was doing with his fingers snapping and say,
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I'm gone.
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And you could say, like, look here and then
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look away.
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No hands or gone.
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Or like a magic trick or something like that.
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But you want to get away with the thing, but
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you have because it's a whole body.
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So you have to work in it in a good way.
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And remember, when you use your hands and arms, it helps you it helps you on
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the way what you are saying.
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And it helps you you get more vivid when you
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use your hands and arms and more relaxed in the situation.
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So to joke, maybe we should be more Italian then use for arms.
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More Italian?
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Yeah. More Italian.
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Well, Martin? Five minutes.
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It goes so fast, very fast.
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And we know, you and I, that many people are talking about communication and we
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want questions.
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Is it so?
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Yes, that's true.
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Yeah. And we want the questions sent to us to the email info at pik new info
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at pip.
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New.
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And you could also reach out with your arm and then click on your phone, your
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smartphone, and download a new podcast app, for example, Fountain, where you could give us
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a positive feedback loop writing with your fingers and digital telegram called Boosted
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Gram and send you a token of appreciation.
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So that's a call to action event.
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Exactly. Well, Martin, thank you for today.
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Thank you very much.
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Dorina.
Speaker B:
Yeah. And we will see each other and hear from each other.
