Avoid Technical terms

This chapter suggested to be careful when you talk regarding their particular specialties. Especially in a profession where the work of which is as a lawyer, a physician, an engineer, or are in a highly specialized line of business.

If you started your speech with highly complex technical terms, your audience might not able to understand and It is always best to go from the simple to the complex in giving explanations of any kind.

Aristotle gave some good advice, “Think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do.”. So, if you must use a technical term, don’t use it until you have explained it so everybody in the audience knows what it means. It reminds me of one story that I had to explain the tooling trial schedule to the cross functional group and he didn’t have any knowledge’s about injection molding. So, when I mentioned about “ T1” or “TF”, he didn’t understand what that meant. We went over the messages back and forth until mid-night, because he had so many questions and wanted to understand better.

So, it goes to both ways, and If someone explains financial or software related technical terms, I probably don’t know how it works and what they mean. That doesn’t mean that someone is not smart.  The point is that there is no reason to avoid a keystone word which you know will not be understood. Just explain it as soon as you use it. I think it will be even better if they use their common sense and based on their experience. So, not only explaining details, but making it will make it easy to understand, if I use examples of common words that the audience uses all the time.