However, if any of you would like to enjoy a beverage in the comfort of your homes, I hope you will feel free to do so. But that would only make the setting more surreal. I thought for a moment about asking the organizers of the convention to do something like that. But in an effort to make the atmosphere seem a bit more normal, teams placed cardboard cutouts of fans in the seats, and piped in recorded Cheers. If any of you watched any regular season baseball games this year, you will have seen that there were no real people in attendance. And I wondered if anything could be done to alleviate that. Today, I'm talking to a camera, and that feels really strange. Those are optimal circumstances for a speaker, they tend to make the audience a lot more forgiving in its assessment of the speech. By the time I got up to speak, there had been a cocktail hour, everybody had had the chance to enjoy a glass of wine or two with dinner, and people were in a good mood. On all those occasions, I spoke to a live audience at the big convention dinner. I've given the conventions keynote speech several times before, but today is quite different. Thank you, Dean, I'm very pleased to have this opportunity to speak to all of you who are attending the Federalist society's annual lawyers convention via the internet. (Usually I would fiercely type and tweet the speech from the banquet table–Zoom has perks!).įirst, he discussed how strange it is to deliver this address remotely. I've pasted the transcript below the jump, with some annotations. I ran the video through the Otter transcription service. He talks about COVID and religious liberty, the freedom of speech, the Second Amendment, and "bullying" of the Supreme Court by U.S. Usually, Justice Alito prohibits his remarks to be recorded, so Zoom has some perks. And tonight, Justice Alito delivered the keynote address virtually. The Federalist Society has brought the National Lawyers Convention into the Zoom era. We pack into the halls of the Mayflower, get gussied up for the banquet at Union Station, and rekindle the vast right wing conspiracy. It has become an annual pilgrimage for conservative and libertarian lawyers. Every year, for the last fourteen years, I have attended the Federalist Society National Lawyers Convention. It feels strange that I am not in Washington, D.C. Kevin is also a New York Times bestselling author of Great Leaders Have No Rules, 15 Secrets Successful People Know About Time Management, and Employee Engagement 2.0.Today is the second Thursday in November. Kevin Kruse is the Founder + CEO of LEADx, a platform that scales and sustains leadership habits throughout an organization. More examples of Kanungo’s virtual speaking can be found on his website, and on his LinkedIn profile. That energy jumps from the theatre right into the home offices and living rooms of his audience. While he’s right about the costly signaling of presenting from an empty theater, the added benefit of this set up is that it enables Kanungo to move around, unleashing his most powerful asset: his energy and passion for his topic. Co-hosts: Even just having a colleague facilitate the Q&A segment is a big improvement over the solo “sage on the stage” approachĪnd the biggest “trick” we can copy from watching Kanungo’s virtual keynote is perhaps also the easiest to pull off.Music: Late night shows always have a band or DJ to bring some fun energy can we have our Amazon Alexa device nearby as our digital DJ?.Props: Kanungo grabs two vodka bottles to make a point about branding what props can you have on your desk ready to illustrate a story (I know I’ll start using my hourglass sand timer when talking about productivity).
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