Tom Krieglstein explains why round tables hurt a speaking program. He prefers chairs only in front of the stage, like a comedy club setup, because tables create a physical barrier between speaker and audience. His solution: serve the meal at tables first, then move people to chairs for the talk.
Hey, it's Tom here setting up for my program this morning. It's going to be about two, three hours long. Not two or three. It is three hours long, but I want to show you something about the room setup. I'm going to turn the camera on so you can see what I'm saying. All right? So on this side of the room, notice we have a bunch of round tables, but then come over here, and we have just chairs as a speaker. I always prefer to have the group in this type of setup here because just like a comedy club, I want them as close to me as possible in the front so that I can manage that energy and move it around. When they're at round tables, the energy is spread out, and there's this massive barrier, AKA a round table, right in the middle. It's no good. And so I know they need these for food, and so we're gonna have these here, but then when they're done eating, we're gonna bring them back over here, and that's where we're gonna do a session from.
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