Comments on: Taking Notes http://worldchampionevaluator.com/evaluations/taking-notes/ evaluating like a champion Tue, 17 Aug 2010 00:26:33 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Bob T. http://worldchampionevaluator.com/evaluations/taking-notes/comment-page-1/#comment-12695 Bob T. Mon, 10 Aug 2009 14:56:16 +0000 http://worldchampionevaluator.com/?p=667#comment-12695 Howsabout a 3-part homemade form that looks like this: Part 1 - Positives Part 2 - Improvement Opportunities Part 3 - More Positives By splitting up your positives, you ensure closing your evaluation with a healthy dose of constructive feedback, and avoiding the classic dreary ending of "I really enjoyed your speech, and I can't wait to hear the next one." I do this all the time, by simply taking an 8 1/2 x 11" piece of paper out and transposing comments from the project manual as well as my other observations onto this form. I deliberately hand print bullets to force me into speaking from my memory and heart, which can then avoid the looking into the project manual trying to read what is usually tiny writing. Try this in your next evaluation and let me know how it works. I call it speaking from your listening soul, and isn't that where your real impressions of the speaker and his speech lie? Howsabout a 3-part homemade form that looks like this:
Part 1 – Positives

Part 2 – Improvement Opportunities

Part 3 – More Positives

By splitting up your positives, you ensure closing your evaluation with a healthy dose of constructive feedback, and avoiding the classic dreary ending of “I really enjoyed your speech, and I can’t wait to hear the next one.” I do this all the time, by simply taking an 8 1/2 x 11″ piece of paper out and transposing comments from the project manual as well as my other observations onto this form. I deliberately hand print bullets to force me into speaking from my memory and heart, which can then avoid the looking into the project manual trying to read what is usually tiny writing.
Try this in your next evaluation and let me know how it works. I call it speaking from your listening soul, and isn’t that where your real impressions of the speaker and his speech lie?

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