#75: How to Debrief After Webinars and LIVE Events & Presentations

Hello, welcome in to Aligned and Wealthy. Today's episode is going to be swift. It's going to be brief. I'm committing to it. I'm committing to a brief episode today. This is going to be a very tangible episode on how to debrief after you host webinars or live events. Okay. And if you have been around for a while, you know that I am a super big fan of holding webinars, hosting challenges, doing live workshops. I love the community that these things bring. I love the trust that it builds, the relationship building, the genuine, like, actual nurturing and like the real value giving that happens inside of webinars and trainings and masterclasses and challenges and all these fun things. It, it's just unmatched. And I don't care what anybody says, webinars are not dead. They're very much alive. They are very profitable and they are a great way to build a relationship, a real actual human relationship with your community, with your audiences, and ultimately build your business. So this is really great for my business building people. If you are not building a business, This is also really, really good if you have speaking engagements, if you have presentations that you're doing for your job, if you are doing anything that's gonna put you in front of the public eye, anything that's gonna put you— or not even in the public eye, but anything that's gonna put you in a place of you're presenting, you are speaking, you are preparing something, you are the presenter of something, you're the host of something. Okay? This is specifically for the, for these types of events. I'm gonna share, share with you how to debrief after these events. It's very, very simple. It's like super simple, and it's going to help you really get a clear picture of, of how the event went, how you, and then how you can also improve on your next one. So this is key, absolutely key to, to continue growing in your professional and in your per, in your personal development. So let's dive in. So the very first thing The first thing that I do is take a breath. Okay, actually that was not part of the teaching points. That was not part of the plan. But literally like I do take a breath, like I take a minute. I, I am not making this Google Doc like as soon as I walk out of the, as soon as I walk outta the event or as soon as I hit end on the meeting. No, like I'm giving myself a, a minute. You know, if it's a live event, like for an example, we were just in Austin, Texas last month. And I was hosting a marketing workshop with the company that I, I'm the, the chief marketing coach there. And so I was hosting this workshop for 2 days and it was so much work, but it was so much fun and it was so good. It was probably one of my favorite events I've ever hosted because of the level of support, but it was also very exhausting. It was very exhausting. It was a lot. It was 2 days fully teaching. Adults how to set up their marketing systems in the backend, how to set up their, their funnels, their email systems, their CRM. Like it was a lot of work. Okay. Very first thing that you have to do after these events, even if it's like a webinar or if it's a challenge, or maybe you're just going live for the first time, or maybe you're just doing a presentation at work. The very first thing that we have to do is take a breath. You have to take a walk, You know, get outside, maybe go take a nap. Maybe you need to go take a nap. Okay, whatever that means to you, take a breath. Okay. Now, inevitably, the high achievers that we all are, you're probably going to have lots and lots of thoughts swarming through your head. You're gonna have lots of things that you're thinking about, lots of things that maybe you're overanalyzing or just analyzing. I tend to overanalyze some things sometimes, so I'll replay like a certain scenario in my head, like over and over and over. It's a form of self-sabotage. I'm really working on that. Who can relate? So anyways, you're probably going to have a lot of thoughts going through your head. All right. And then whenever you get to the point after you've taken that breath and you get to the point where you're ready to debrief, then you're going to sit down. And it is so simple. You're literally going to open up a Google Doc, and you are going to create a table. Now I'm going to pull up mine while we actually talk about this, so I can show you what it looks like, or I can tell you what it looks like. You're going to create a table in your Google Doc, and it's going to have 3 columns. Okay? Now these columns, they're gonna be called— the first column is called what worked. And you're literally going to create a row for every single thing that you feel like worked. Like, like, just give yourself kudos for everything that worked. I started the meeting on time. My slide deck was a litty. Our workbooks were awesome. Everyone loved that we did this. The, the hands-on support was great. We, we taught this point and it seemed like everybody really needed this. Like, whatever the case is for you, Put down what worked. Like, literally give yourself props on all of the things that worked. What worked? What went well? What, like, what are, what are you proud of? You would definitely repeat that thing again. What worked? Okay. And just, and just brain dump it, brain dump it all out and get it out of your head. Okay. Now the next column. So once you've got what worked, the next column is going to be what didn't work. It's so easy, right? Okay. What did not work? All right. We had typos in the workbook. The slide deck, I was up until 12 AM finishing it. That did not work for me. That was terrible. This is my personal experience that, that— so I'm listing what did not work. Okay, so you're going to list all the things that you keep playing over and over and over in your head, all the things that you keep analyzing, you keep overthinking on. You're going to put that in that column. This did not work. And just create as many rows as you need for that. Okay, just list it out. All right. Get it out of your head. You got to take it. You got to take it out of your head so that you can create space for things that are productive. Okay? Overanalyzing does not get us anywhere. So we've got to get it out of our head onto paper and keep moving forward. Okay. Now, in the very last column right here, this is where you're going to put proposed changes. Now, I say proposed because you are very hot and fresh coming from coming back from this webinar, event, presentation, etc. And you, you know, whatever you may be thinking through emotion, rather than logic right now. So we're gonna call this proposed changes. These are just proposals. We're not sure if we're gonna change these things next time. We're not sure if we're gonna make these modifications, but we're gonna propose them. We're gonna think about them. We're gonna give them some more thought. Okay? So maybe one of, this is like literally coming from my last debrief, propose having 2 monitors, one for instructions, one for modeling, or having an extra large scale print, printed slide deck to flip through while modeling on the screen. Now, looking back at this, I do not want an extra huge slide deck to have to flip through like a flip chart. That's, that's a terrible idea. I don't want that. So that's why I called that section Proposed Changes. Okay? So maybe on your proposed changes, it's I wanna have my slide deck finished a week in advance. Proposed changes, I need to log into the webinar, into Zoom 30 minutes early. Proposed changes. I need to make sure I send out a reminder email before the meeting starts. Okay, what are the proposed changes that thinking forward that you can make next time? All right, and then as the next event approaches, approaches, as the next speaking engagement, the next presentation, you can come back to this debrief and you can say, oh yeah, well, that went well, that did not work, and here's the changes that we proposed, and then you can make improvements, improvements next time. Okay. All right. I don't want to keep going on. That is the gist of it. Those are— that's how you're going to debrief after your webinars and live events. Use this, take this, make it your own. Feel free to come and share with me @lindsay.badillo, B-A-D-I-L-L-O, any, any of these tips that have helped you. If you're like, yes, Lindsay, I'm going to use this, or this sucks, Lindsay, like you could have made this a lot shorter, still got the point across. Someone told me that. Someone literally told me that on my last reel that I put out. They said this could have been way shorter. And, you know, I said, well, thanks, algorithm. Like, thank you to the algorithm for making me have to make longer reels and not, you know, thank you. So anyways, reach out at Lindsey D'Avadillo. Let me know if you are going to adopt this. Let me know what you want to hear more of. I am an open book and I love to share these short, quick solo episodes, anything to help help you navigate the world of building a business or building yourself professionally and personally. That's what, that's what we're here for. That's what we're doing. We are on our personal journeys to alignment and wealth. So love you all. I will see you in the next episode of Aligned and Wealthy. Hey gang, it's Lindsay. If you enjoyed today's show, it would mean so much for you to take 1 to 2 minutes and leave us a review right here on your podcast platform. 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