Negative feedback is more useful than positive feedback if pursuing betterment and growth. Here is both from the audience, having in mind my perspective as a teacher, speaker, leader and presenter.
Favourite presenters:
- Were generous with giving their tools and methods
- Taught useful practices that can be applied in life
- Their offering was stand-alone and useful regardless whether further buying their products and services or not.
- True service, other-oriented giving. Their presentation left me grateful, inspired, enriched, and wanting to learn more from them.
- Ratio between lecture and instruction favouring instruction
- Highly expressive and nuanced voice, face and body movements, which I found engaging even after 4 hours of night’s sleep
- Personal bias towards the presenters who talked about vital energy (I’m an energy healer and tired of cynicism). I felt less alone hearing presenters whose views are that we are the body, and not only the body
- Humour - always a winner for me
- Conversational tone of voice - easy to connect with the presenter on a personal, human level, easy to trust and to like
- Taught useful practices that can be applied in life
- Their offering was stand-alone and useful regardless whether further buying their products and services or not.
- True service, other-oriented giving. Their presentation left me grateful, inspired, enriched, and wanting to learn more from them.
- Ratio between lecture and instruction favouring instruction
- Highly expressive and nuanced voice, face and body movements, which I found engaging even after 4 hours of night’s sleep
- Personal bias towards the presenters who talked about vital energy (I’m an energy healer and tired of cynicism). I felt less alone hearing presenters whose views are that we are the body, and not only the body
- Humour - always a winner for me
- Conversational tone of voice - easy to connect with the presenter on a personal, human level, easy to trust and to like
Least favourite presenters:
- Stingy and secretive with their method. Gave the “what” and none of the “how”, leaving any benefit depending on whether buying their services or not. Major turn-off for me.
- Fluff. Long, detailed lecture, making the same point over again, no movement, no engagement, in a self-induced trance with no awareness of the participants’ responses. Nothing you can’t find on YouTube.
- Too much persuading “why” and too little educating “what” and “how”. As with any time when I am being sold, that was a turnoff.
- Monotonous voice, poker face (no facial expression), no gestures, robot-like presentations. Took away from the content for me
- Pompous, self-pretentious tone. I don’t trust humourless presenters who perform rather than connect
- Fluff. Long, detailed lecture, making the same point over again, no movement, no engagement, in a self-induced trance with no awareness of the participants’ responses. Nothing you can’t find on YouTube.
- Too much persuading “why” and too little educating “what” and “how”. As with any time when I am being sold, that was a turnoff.
- Monotonous voice, poker face (no facial expression), no gestures, robot-like presentations. Took away from the content for me
- Pompous, self-pretentious tone. I don’t trust humourless presenters who perform rather than connect
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