{"id":612,"date":"2016-11-21T22:36:29","date_gmt":"2016-11-21T22:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ffolliet.com\/staging\/?p=612"},"modified":"2026-04-03T12:59:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T12:59:03","slug":"on-negative-feedback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ffolliet.com\/staging\/on-negative-feedback\/","title":{"rendered":"On negative feedback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have no\u00a0monopoly on ideas on #presentationskills and so it was with pleasure I accepted this guest post from a friend and educator supreme\u00a0<a class=\"ProfileNameTruncated-link u-textInheritColor js-nav js-action-profile-name\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EMSwami\" data-aria-label-part=\"\">Anand Swaminathan<\/a>\u00a0(known to the world as Swami). It deals with feedback but principally the difficulty of negative feedback, on a presentation a junior colleague had recently given.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"CENTER\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Recently, a friend approached me to discuss some feedback he had gotten after a national level lecture. This was his first large lecture in front of a room of about 300 and he was quite proud of his work afterwards. But when he approached me he appeared crushed. He showed me a list of about 15-20 comments, mostly positive, that were sent to him. Amongst them, there was one that stuck out to him, \u201cthe speaker wasted my time.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"CENTER\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-613 size-medium alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/ffolliet.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/PHOTO_20161121_173035-280x300.jpg\" alt=\"on negative feedback\" width=\"280\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ffolliet.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/PHOTO_20161121_173035-280x300.jpg 280w, https:\/\/ffolliet.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/PHOTO_20161121_173035-768x823.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ffolliet.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/PHOTO_20161121_173035-956x1024.jpg 956w, https:\/\/ffolliet.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/PHOTO_20161121_173035-1170x1254.jpg 1170w, https:\/\/ffolliet.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/PHOTO_20161121_173035.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">That was it. In 5 words, this attendee had destroyed the self-confidence of a young speaker and crushed his spirit. His question to me was simply, \u201cwhat do I do now?\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Getting feedback on a talk can be incredibly valuable. It is one of the most effective routes to improving our delivery, content analysis and performance. However, useful feedback must be clear, specific and actionable. Examples that I\u2019ve gotten are, \u201csometimes your hands are distracting. Can you try to control your movements more?\u201d or \u201cYou\u2019re pacing so much I can\u2019t keep you in the camera shot.\u201d Clear, specific and actionable.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Negative feedback, though, is typically fairly worthless at least when it appears as the above comment, \u201cthe speaker wasted my time.\u201d There\u2019s nothing here that the speaker can directly take to improve what they do. Was the attendee simply too expert of the content? Did the speaker run over time keeping the disgruntled attendee from coffee or the bathroom? Did the attendee disagree with the content analysis? There\u2019s absolutely no way to know.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">So, as my friend asked, \u201cwhat do I do now?\u201d <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">First, realize that when you give a talk, someone will always hate what you said and respond in this fashion. The larger the room, the more of these comments you get. Mel Herbert,Professor, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, told me years ago that if everyone agrees with what you said, you\u2019re not saying anything important. If we are to push the boundaries of knowledge and explore difficult topics, we will get some upset folks. Good on us.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Second, the negative comments will uniformly be overrepresented in the feedback you receive. People who are upset with what you say are far more likely to write a feedback card than those who agree with you and are even more likely to fill out the freehand comments. If you present to 200 people and get 2 negative remarks, there probably aren\u2019t many more than that.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Third, the people who write these comments typically aren\u2019t upset with what you said but rather with something else unrelated to you. They had a fight with their significant other before they came to the conference, their coffee was cold or burned or they skipped breakfast. I find it hard to believe that anyone who has ever created and given a talk, who understands the time and effort that goes into preparing a talk, would ever purposely leave such a malicious remark. Aside to attendees &#8211; be kind.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">None of this answers the question of \u201cwhat do I do now?\u201d There\u2019s no easy answer there. A single remark like this is devastating and rationalizing it doesn\u2019t necessarily move you past it. Here\u2019s what I told my friend:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Realize that what you are doing is important and challenging and that may be why you got this response. Keep pushing and don\u2019t stop.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Take the comment as a challenge. Use it to spur you on to improve your skills; not to deviate from your path. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Get tough. You will get this type of response every time you give a talk. It may not look exactly like this but the sentiment and it\u2019s effect on you will be the same. Don\u2019t let your confidence or your will be so greatly affected by one person or one thought.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Foster better feedback. Make your own feedback form that gives you useful information. I distribute index cards and ask people to write down what messages they will take away from the talk. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">In the end, It\u2019s unlikely that any of my specific advice made my friend feel better or will make you feel better when this happens. What probably helped the most was simply commiserating; sharing the fact that we all get feedback like this, it\u2019s not about you and to keep your head up and keep doing what you\u2019re doing. The sting ebbs with time but I can\u2019t say it ever goes away completely. We can\u2019t control the responses of others. What we can attempt to control is our response and how deeply this affects us.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"LEFT\">Thanks to Swami and his colleague for sharing that. Remember all feedback is valuable depending on how we use it. Don&#8217;t let one opinion put you off though; not everyone agrees on The Best Football Team, loving a new movie or what you chose to wear to the Christmas Party. Opinions vary but reflect the person giving them more than you.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have no\u00a0monopoly on ideas on #presentationskills and so it was with pleasure I accepted this guest post from a friend and educator supreme\u00a0Anand Swaminathan\u00a0(known to the world as Swami). 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