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''Evaluations''<br>Speaker evaluations are often circulated at large conferences. Some are more detailed than others, asking for audience opinions on presentation, content and other details. This enables the organizers to determine who was effective, instructive, popular, and all the components that place you high on a list of being invited back. Unfortunately, the results of the evaluations are not always available to the speakers themselves. Certainly they could be useful feedback for any of us trying to improve our performance. It doesn’t hurt to ask the organizers about this, before or after the event. Above we mentioned being critiqued by a colleague when you are practicing a lecture. Even when you are more experienced and speaking to a larger conference, you might want to ask someone for the same kind of assistance, especially if the conference organizers don’t supply that feedback. | ''Evaluations''<br>Speaker evaluations are often circulated at large conferences. Some are more detailed than others, asking for audience opinions on presentation, content and other details. This enables the organizers to determine who was effective, instructive, popular, and all the components that place you high on a list of being invited back. Unfortunately, the results of the evaluations are not always available to the speakers themselves. Certainly they could be useful feedback for any of us trying to improve our performance. It doesn’t hurt to ask the organizers about this, before or after the event. Above we mentioned being critiqued by a colleague when you are practicing a lecture. Even when you are more experienced and speaking to a larger conference, you might want to ask someone for the same kind of assistance, especially if the conference organizers don’t supply that feedback. | ||
{{Block indent|Keep a personal running log of lectures given: which lectures did you give to which groups, and when? Then you’re ready to offer something different when they ask you again! Sometimes you will be asked for a list of lectures you have given, say in the past year or so.}} | |||
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