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"I could have done more...", Accepting the audience feedback !
I recently ran an internal AI training, and instead of slides I built an interactive website. Part of it lived on people's phones; the rest was on the big screen. I packed in everything I could: live quizzes, votes, word clouds, every bit of spice I could find. I even staged a moment where I left the room faking a phone call, leaving the audience facing an empty screen... until an AI assistant suddenly woke up and gave the next five minutes of the training itself, showing what's actually possible with AI. It worked. The audience loved it. This was the beginner session, and my goal was to open their eyes: the sky is the limit, and here's how you actually talk to an AI in a chat. Then I ran a second session for an intermediate audience. This one was harder. The topic was skills for AI, and it was tough to stage a "moment" that genuinely made sense. So I kept it simpler: a few votes and quizzes, plus one fully interactive section where the whole room built a skill together. But here's what nagged at me. I'd poured far more effort into my "website-slides" and the content than into the delivery. I moved around too much without intent, I didn't vary my pace, though I did use my body and hands a lot to carry the message. The whole time I felt like I was repeating myself over and over, and that I was boring people. The audience told me the opposite. They said it was amazing, that the first part felt like a show. The second worked too, because the more complex material needed concentration, so fewer effects and more focus on building together was exactly right. My takeaway: I need to prepare my speech even more than my slides. And I need to accept that the audience genuinely liked it. Out of 50+ people, I bored exactly one. :D So I'll ask you: how do you feel after you give a talk, and what's one concrete thing you do to improve for the next one?
"I could have done more...", Accepting the audience feedback !
3 likes • Jun 5
You also have to be careful about your perception and theirs: they sometimes if not often are not the same. Usually, that's because you see what it is missing, but they don't. And you are right: accept the audience feedback, it's a great dopamine!
Where do you find inspirition ?
Im someone who always merge things, so i find inspiration everywhere. Do you have a special place or a special thing you do ?
2 likes • Apr 6
- In the Parisian metro when I look at people, - by listening to my students'life and their questions, - by looking at what others do
0 likes • Apr 13
@Amir Salemi You need to be in the Parisian metro more often: you'll get used to the problem of the transportation here 🤣 By the way, I think that the more we have problem like these, the more you exploit the skills you have or you build, so in a way having trouble makes us more intelligent
Feedback Preference
When someone gives feedback, do you prefer…
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6 likes • Feb 24
What I prefer is constructive feedback that helps to get better: - If the feedback points an error I make but it doesn't help to be better by giving advice or by being to vague, I can hear it but I won't care about it; - If the feedback is only saying that my presentation is good, of course it will give me some dopamine but it won't help either way, because sometime you do great without knowing what strategie was good and you can't repeat it in the next presentation
0 likes • Mar 20
@Stipe Romac I never thought about it, that's a good question... Let's say this: if someone gives me few suggestions, I'll probably try to use them one at a time... I try to refrain myself to do multitasking, thisis not really efficient in the long run.
what kind of public speaker are you ?
Do you use public speaking skills outside of “public speaking” itself? Where else do you apply them?
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3 likes • Jan 16
It's hard to vote: actually I use public speaking skills in my class, but since I'm also doing online courses for my class, I create content where I speak in there (I'm thinking on creating video content where I'm filming myself but since I do everything on my own, it will take a longer time to edit everything - powerpoint, cameras...).
1 like • Jan 20
@Ivan Ivanov yes but a real amateur!!!😅 I need to learn more
5 likes • Jan 16
Win - pushing my colleagues to prevent our managers to isolate us more and more.
1 like • Jan 20
@Stipe Romac OK, the wobble would be that my colleagues didn't follow what we had decided against our manager's decisions 😅, there's definitely a miscommunication 🤣
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Struggling in helping kids to study when I was a student, I became a French teacher to help people to communicate in France

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