Tips for Receiving Feedback from Speeches

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DON VARNEY: Hi, I'm Don Varney, founder of Varney Speaks, and I'm here on behalf of Expert Village. You know, a lot of times, when you finish your speech, you're going to have an opportunity to go into the lobby and while you're in the lobby you're going to get this opportunity to get tremendous feedback of what it is that you've just done. As you're there, always make sure that you spend a few moments getting in touch with the people. If you have that opportunity to spend time with someone you don't have to necessarily ask for praise but it's always good to walk up and introduce yourself and help people. A good example is--Hi! MAN: Hi, how are you? DON VARNEY: I'm great. I'm Don Varney. I hope you enjoy the presentation. MAN: It was wonderful, simply wonderful. DON VARNEY: Well, we always try to make sure that it's something of value. And that's what we hope that we did. And I'm so glad that you had that opportunity. MAN: Thank you and it's really been great. DON VARNEY: Thank you. What happens in that's situation is you'll get feedback. Now, that young man was very kind and said what a great presentation it was. Sometimes, you'll have someone say, "You know I didn't really like what you said." How do you handle that? Well, that can be something you have to stop and think about. You're on a high. You're pumped up, you just came off the stage and somebody says, "I just didn't like that." How do you do it? Take a deep breath. You can't satisfy everyone every time. So what you want to do is just say, "Well, thank you for that. I appreciate exactly what you just said and I'm going to take that into consideration for my future presentations."

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