I was asked recently how I did this.\u00c2\u00a0 I didn’t have a ready answer – because I wasn’t doing so.<\/p>\n
Firstly, this was because it was a freebie presentation I was doing for fun so I’d not made any attempt to measure things and secondly because I won’t know if people have taken my ideas on board until I see presentations from them subsequently – which I won’t for that group, because of the freebie, taster-session, fun type of event it was.<\/p>\n
It did bring to mind, however, a conversation I had with someone on another forum (which I can’t find at the moment) where they suggested that the volume and length of your applause told you how successful the presentation had been. I disagreed.<\/p>\n
Firstly, I feel that at best all this will do is give you a measure of how well received your presentation has been at the time, not how effective it’s been in the longer term. I can leave audiences raving and wanting more if I decide to (and get lucky! :) ) but that’s not always appropriate. What’s more important to me is that the message gets taken in – and if that means finishing on a quiet note with no applause at all, then so be it!<\/p>\n
Secondly, with my theatre-background-head speaking, I’d argue that all the applause can measure is how well well you did what you did. The volume of the silence before<\/b> it tells you more about the quality<\/b> of what you tried to do in your presentation….. if you see what I mean.<\/p>\n
So where does that leave me? Well pretty much unable to measure the effectiveness of presentations, unfortunately, unless I get feedback from clients later on (which fortunately we do, obviously). That’s a hit-and-miss affair, of course, so if any one out there’s got good metrics for measuring ‘success’ I’d love to hear them. Come to that, I’d even be interested in how one defines<\/b> success in a presentation, much less measures it! :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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