Communication triage
venturing into a discussion in a board meeting, radio or television broadcast or you have the eloquence to face the savage audience on social media.
A lethal communication usually would have a topic, questions and answers all waging a war of relevance with each other. Every time I have picked a topic to discuss on simple subjects of football to high-end politics of governance.
This triage never hesitates to manifest itself.
It’s not possible to have a topic without questions and answers. You cannot arrive at an answer with questions and a topic in play. It’s most difficult to isolate questions without answer and a topic.
A topic is an idea dependent on questions and answers to advance its meaning and relevance eventually. A question is an enquiry attempting to define the character of a topic and then an answer sets the boundary of behaviour for the character of the topic.
' Don't ask that' will like you to examine that some topics, questions and answers are not a worthy mix. If you have to discuss a bad topic you are likely finding out it’s a bad topic after no worthy question or answer shows up to engage it.
Engagement is the bridge that keeps topic, questions and answers in one loop of discussion.
So, we are venturing into a discussion in a board meeting, radio or television broadcast or you have the eloquence to face the savage audience on social media. You better be prepared to have an idea of what questions the topic and answers will get you. Even better understand what gets you what as you share your thoughts gradually.
If a journalist were to ask why the Pope is Catholic, he/she will likely get a measured shock from Pope and far from a breath long answer. A topic, questions and answers are expected to show up to a group of people called listeners or audience. With every topic is a risk to match proper answers and questions to advance an idea.
A person starting off a topic needs to be skilful in simulating the depth of possible answers and questions that would follow. The mechanics of a good conversation requires many moving parts to act dependently on each other and brag about their uniqueness while at it.
Don’t ask that …. to risk a topic without simulating questions and answers on the radio or a meeting, it’s vehemently dangerous to do so. Good questions get good answers when the audience appear interested in both, especially when they think both are good enough for their attention. Questions and Answers are what makes radio/TV/Social media discussions cross the boundary to become firestorm reality shows if things go out of simulations very quick with little or no control what happens next.
In communication the moment you initiate a conversation hinged on a crude topic, you have opened up a conversation to ask questions on how much you don’t know about the topic or answers on how much they know about the topic. Multiple factors showcase a topic to be crude, in its bearest meaningless form. A topic is bad or even crude when it’s shared with an audience that cannot ask questions or answer questions on the subject. its a mismatch of effort to ask an audience to answer questions on Physics in German when they cannot read/speak/write the German alphabets.