Category Assessing Feedback
The Importance of an After Action Review
Summertime Rewind continues as we swing into August. This piece discusses assessing feedback: Examining media interviews, presentations, and advocacy campaigns to gauge how you did. What worked? What needs some extra attention? All in an effort to perform better next time as you work toward your business and public policy goals. The C-suite Blueprint blog […]
4 Ways to Judge Your After Action Review
The U.S. Army calls it an after action review. I’ve long referred to it as assessing feedback. No matter the term, it is 100 percent necessary to gauge how you’ve performed after the fact. That goes for your company’s communications efforts, too. The Wharton School describes an after action review this way: “The process itself […]
What to Do After Your Media Interview
Here’s an excerpt based on Chapter Five of my latest book, Reporters Don’t Hate You: 100+ Amazing Media Relations Strategies, available wherever you prefer to buy your books. The chapter contains “Hot 100+ Media Tips.” This segment revolves around how vital it is to assess performance after each and every media interview. Debrief your performance […]
What Is Your Audience Saying to You?
A lot of executives who speak in public become perplexed when I tell them to scan the audience. They see their main job as delivering their presentation. The reason they neglect this real-time check is that they are so busy thinking of what they are going to say next, they fear they will lose their […]
Assessing Feedback: Showing Good Form
Many people believe that assessing feedback when you speak in public begins and ends with an evaluation form. I suggest you use one, by all means. Make your questions open-ended and leave plenty of room for comments. Be sure to spend some time designing a form that unearths the data you need while keeping your […]
Internalize to Verbalize
Whether you take advantage of a formal public speaking workshop or not, don’t ever neglect the need for practice. This does not mean simply giving your presentation a cursory once-over. You need plenty of rehearsal time before you are ready for the big show. An earnest practice regimen is the single biggest key to successful […]
The Secret to Enhancing Your C-suite’s Public Persona
A lot of executives become perplexed when I tell them to scan the audience when delivering a presentation. It’s all part of the essential effort to assess feedback. They see their main job as delivering content. The reason they neglect this real-time check is that they are so busy thinking of what they are going […]
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