Mastering Feedback: The Right Way to Improve Your Speeches

18 Feb 2024 · 1 min

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TJ Walker explains the right and wrong ways to ask for feedback on speeches. He warns against vague, self-focused prompts like “How'd I do?” which invite generic praise, and recommends asking listeners what they remember and how they would describe the speech—focusing feedback on stories, examples, and case studies rather than surface professionalism.

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Are you asking for feedback on your speeches and presentations the right way? Because there is a wrong way. The wrong way is to say, how'd I do? What you think people are going to sense that you're needy and they're just going to say what they think you want to hear. Oh, good job. You are professional. Well done. That's not what you want to ask them. Instead, ask them what they remember about your presentation, your speech. Ask them how they would describe your speech to someone who wasn't there. You want to really listen to what they say in terms of your stories, your examples, your case studies. That's what's meaningful, not whether you sounded or looked professional.