#304 Captivate Your Audience with a Few Simple Tricks

#304 Captivate Your Audience with a Few Simple Tricks

Notes:

In this engaging conversation, Jason Zeikowitz dicusses his experience as a Salesforce Technical Trainer. From handling an array of situations from training salespeople to construction workers who are initially resistant to using new technology, Jason shares the importance of combining questioning and communication to engineer buy-in.

He highlights techniques like the ‘role goal poll’ to understand participants’ expectations and needs. He also extends his techniques to transferable skills beneficial for aspiring sales engineers, with a focus on coordination and ensuring the audience’s needs are at the center of the process. Jason shares his aspirations to become a sales engineer and recommends some useful resources for improving one’s learning capabilities.

Key Takeaways:

  • Getting to Know Mr. Z and his Journey to Becoming a Technical Trainer
  • Challenges and Strategies in Training
  • Engaging Salespeople and Overcoming Resistance
  • Role Goal Poll: A Strategy for Engagement
  • The “Review Early and Often” Strategy
  • Unleashing Creativity: Maintaining Engagement and The Power of Brainstorming
  • The Role of a Maestro: Orchestrating a Harmonious Discussion
  • Embracing Silence: The Power of Reflection
  • Dealing with Resistance in Training Sessions
  • Transferable Skills: From Trainer to Sales Engineer
  • The Power of Acronyms and Alliterations in Communication
  • Continuous Learning, Gratitude, and Goal Setting

Quotes:

“I let them know if, if you’re quiet, I eat silence for breakfast. I meditate in the morning, actually.” – Jason Zeikowitz On embracing silence

“I gotta always deal with people. So I just feel, working with people, being in a trade with people just helps keep that saw sharp.” – Jason Zeikowitz on what he loves about Sales Engineering

“There’s a phrase in the Salesforce community of accidental admin, people who never studied tech before, but now that responsibility fell on their lap and now they feel greatly empowered. That’s not my journey into tech. Mine is being a coincidental change champion. “ – Jason Zeikowitz

“So if I could learn one thing, I’d wanna learn how to learn. And I’d say that’s a superpower.” – Jason Zeikowitz

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Music on the show: Watchmaker’s Daughter by Reeder