{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Alastair Greener Generationally Speaking","title":"Human Bandwidth and Why Knowing Your Stuff Is Not Enough","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2339,"description":"Alastair is joined by David Duffett, an award-winning speaker, chartered engineer and author of “Be The Nerd That's Heard”, who helps technical experts raise what he calls their human bandwidth so that their knowledge and ideas are not lost through ineffective communication. David's own path ran through pirate radio transmitters he built himself, the Civil Aviation Authority's telecoms engineering college at Bletchley Park, and a spell as worldwide community director for the Asterisk open source project.\n\nIn this episode David explains why the IASM in his job title is capitalised, why the old model of the deep technical expert in the back room has been flipped on its head by AI, and what happened to a cohort of Bloomberg engineers who became managers without ever having given face to face feedback. He pushes back firmly on the stereotype that engineers are simply introverts who dislike public speaking, and offers a set of practical protocol matching tips for communicating across the generational gap in technical teams.\n\nDavid Duffett Takeaways:\nKnowing your stuff isn’t enough. The skill that matters now is communicating just the relevant part of your stuff to the audience in front of you\nEngineers are not afraid of speaking in public. They are afraid of looking ill-prepared in front of their peers, and that is a fixable problem\nCommunication is a muscle. Technical people have spent years building the technical one and ignoring the communication one, so the imbalance is trainable\nEncode the message in the audience's own language. Talking to engineers about rapport gets scepticism. Talking about the bandwidth of your human connection channel starts a conversation\nYounger engineers arrive ready to broadcast, having grown up sharing online, but they are not always set up for two-way communication. Human bandwidth must be open in both directions\nA generation of engineers came through university and into work during lockdowns and reached management having never given...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/U7n8uwsw80mjG_mfmfgOCOM6fQoJtslw2bwnu7AmkaU/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS80ZGFl/MjMzNjMzMDE2MzAz/NzkzMjYyYWRjYjk1/NWMxZi5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}