Public Speaking with Peter George · 2026-05-19 · 5 min
Every industry has its alphabet soup - ROI, KPI, B2B, API, SDK, LTO - and we toss these around assuming everyone in the room is fluent. They're not. Even in a roomful of professionals from the same field, someone is new, someone works in a different department, someone comes from a region where different terms are standard. And the moment you use an acronym they don't recognize, they stop listening to you and start trying to decode what you just said. You've lost them - not because your content was weak, but because your language assumed too much. In this episode, you'll learn a simple, five-second fix that keeps every member of your audience with you: define each acronym, set of initials, or piece of jargon the first time you use it. I'll show you how to do it naturally so it never sounds remedial, share the story of a client whose engagement transformed once he stopped assuming his audience knew what "LTO" meant, and give you a practical action step you can apply to your next presentation. Clarity isn't just courtesy. It's the difference between speaking at your audience and bringing every one of them along with you.
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