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Tips on Giving Feedback

Focus on what to do, not what not to do. Find a replacement behavior.
Agree on feedback guidelines for your group!
You can only talk about yourself/your own experience, don't judge others' experience.
Give examples of positive feedback

Tips for Things to Listen/Watch for in Your Speaking

Listen for strength of the bottom lines
Listen for breaks/distinction in the modules
Listen for the pacing and speed of your speech.
Volume: quiet vs loud -- modulate your volume to reflect the intent of your words.
Facial expression - does subject match tone delivery? Congruence!
Body language/posture/hand gestures - this comes with recording - capture whole body/or back up the camera.
Purposefulness of what the presenter is doing - notice it in yourself.
How to replace um/uh? - "Just stop" only works when you are self-aware!

Tips for Breaking a Tough Habit

Listen for your ums and uhs, or any other idiosyncratic fillers, build the awareness and you will self-regulate!
If you don't hear them, try this: Speak so slow, that there's room to hear what's going on.
Everytime you say an um put your finger in the air. Physical acknowledgement happens!

Tips for Communicating Through Your Content

Watch out for use of metaphor - does it help get the point across? Is it cross-culturally understood?

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 '''Tips for Things to Listen/Watch for in Your Speaking'''
- * Listen for strength of the bottom lines
+* Listen for strength of the bottom lines
- * Listen for breaks/distinction in the modules
+* Listen for breaks/distinction in the modules
- * Listen for pacing/speech speed
+* Listen for the pacing and speed of your speech.
- * Volume: quiet vs loud -- modulation to reflect the intent of the words
+* Volume: quiet vs loud -- modulate your volume to reflect the intent of your words.
- * Facial expression - does subject match tone delivery? Congruence
+* Facial expression - does subject match tone delivery? Congruence!
- * Body language/posture/hand gestures - this comes with recording - capture whole body/or back up the camera.
+* Body language/posture/hand gestures - this comes with recording - capture whole body/or back up the camera.
- * Purposefulness of what the presenter is doing - notice it in yourself.
+* Purposefulness of what the presenter is doing - notice it in yourself.
- * How to replace um/uh? - "Just stop" only works when you are self-aware!
+* How to replace um/uh? - "Just stop" only works when you are self-aware!
 '''Tips for Breaking a Tough Habit'''