✓ You are the expert in the field!
✓ You have lot of relevant and recent experience in the same field.
❖ Yet – when communicating to someone about it, hold your horses.
✓ Stop thinking intuitively about how much you can and will talk about this.
✓ Stop default mode of dumping all your years of acquired knowledge to other person.
❖ Take a pace back and think – what other person is expecting.
❖ In other words – what other ear is hoping to hear. (Thus Alter-ear or Alter-lobe in the title)
✓ (Put yourself in their shoe – and think what are they expecting from you. )
✓ Start pre-preparation.
❖ Think introspectively – if given a chance, what are they asking you?
❖ What’s their single most important – one and only question?
✓ Answer only that question.
✓ And then give them an actual chance to probe you more.
✓ Follow-up and expand your communication to follow their line of thought.
✓ You are still an expert.
❖ But now you have become a recognized expert.
✓ Remember “communication” is better a “conversation” – not a one way radio.
