In this StorySpark coaching session, Haritosh Srivastav leads a "Feedback Relay" with participant Dr. Alka. After acknowledging a missed recording, Haritosh asks Dr. Alka to reflect on the self‑evaluation exercise. Dr. Alka shares that daily self‑evaluation of speeches helps retain learning, noting she missed several elements (challenge, takeaways, voice modulation) in her recent speech. Haritosh then presents a concise, four‑dimensional feedback checklist for both self‑evaluation and evaluating others: (1) Structure & Content – opening, conflict, resolution, vivid imagery; (2) Delivery & Presentation – vocal variety, body language, eye contact, pacing, confidence; (3) Audience Engagement – emotional connection, relatability, interaction, clarity; (4) Overall Impact – memorability, originality, call‑to‑action. He advises summarizing feedback with 2‑3 specific strengths and 2‑3 concrete growth suggestions, providing examples rather than generic statements. The session ends with an encouraging reminder to keep learning, growing, and stepping out of comfort zones.
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Welcome everyone to day 39 of StorySpark session, and today's session is about feedback relay. Uh, so confession, I forgot to record the session, so we have completed the session, but I am going to ask the participant what was the exercise like for her and what was her reflections, and then I'll also share a quick tip on how you can improve your feedback. So Dr. Alka, what was your feedback from the session?
Yeah, so today I learned about self-evaluation, and that's a very wonderful tool. If we can stick to the self-evaluation, if every day we make a speech and we self-evaluate, we will not forget the point that we have to self-evaluate. Today while giving the speech also, I forgot about the challenge part, I forget about the get the takeaways part, I forgot about many things, and about How I can modulate my voice. So there are some 8 or 9, 10 things, I think, more than that. If we can practice every day and if we self-evaluate every day, then it will become easier for us to make better speeches. Thank you, Haritosh Srivastav.
Thank you so much, Dr. Alka, for sharing that. And as I said, I am going to share a quick checklist. If you want to take a screenshot, you can. Or for those who are member of the Confident Storytelling Hub, they will get this as a PDF. So when you are evaluating, whether self-evaluating or evaluating others, you can take care of the structure and content in terms of what is the opening, middle, end, what's the purpose, does it have an engaging opening, does it have a clear conflict, does it go for a proper resolution and conclusion, and does it add vivid imagery, does the use of details and description present or not. So that is one part of it. Other is related to the delivery and presentation. So does it have vocal variety? Does it have the right body language and right gestures? Is the eye contact and pacing correct? And how confident the speaker is when presenting? Similarly, the third dimension is about engagement with the audience. Are you making emotional connection? Is your story relatable? Are you having some audience interaction? And how clear is the speech? And last is the overall impact where you look at it from a long-term perspective that does the story will be there in your memory long-term or does it completely go out once you are done with the session, how original and creative it is and what is the call to action and takeaway. So when using these parameters you can use the last section which is the summary, so you want to highlight 2 to 3 things which was really good and impactful and strong. And then you also give 2-3 grow-ons, 2-3 specific areas. So don't just say, "Oh, your vocal variety could be good." Give us the— give the example of, "Okay, this is where you could have added vocal variety by doing this." So when you are more precise and specific, that's when your feedback also becomes better. So that was a quick gist of a quick summary of what we discussed. As I say every time, until next time, keep learning, keep growing and keep going out of your comfort zone. And story power to you, Dr. Alka, and everyone watching. Thank you.
Thank you.
We'll see tomorrow.
Today night, no, no, just like night was over, we finished that class.
