“Did that go okay?” How to tell if your message is landing

by Carolyn Thomas    ♥   @HeartSisters

In the last half of the last century when I was working in corporate public relations, I was invited to speak at a marketing conference for female entrepreneurs in the city of Kamloops, B.C.

During my 45-minute presentation, the audience response was terrific – lots of nodding and smiling throughout, and several thoughtful questions at the end – all clues that signal a speaker’s messages are landing as planned.  On the plane heading home to Victoria from Kamloops after the conference, I pulled out the pile of audience feedback forms that I’d been given (old school: hand-written!) and I settled back in my seat to read them during my flight. One after another, the reviews were so nice. (One woman even wrote: “I want to marry Carolyn Thomas!”)  The last review I read, however, was one that stopped me cold:       .

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