When I did seminars for financial planners with high net worth clients, I
used to open by telling them that after thousands of hours of studying the
market, TA, quantitative and fundamental analysis and trading techniques, I
had learned the insider secrets to getting rich.
Then I said that
later in the day, around 4:00 pm, after I had given them some basic
explanations on managing high worth clients, I would reveal the secrets on how
they too could become rich.
They always listened very intently until
4:00 pm.
At around 3:55 to 3:59 pm someone in the audience would
always remind me that at 4:00 o'clock I had promised to explain the secrets.
So at around 4:01 I would tell them that the only secret to getting
rich was to spend thousands of hours studying the markets, learning to control
their emotions and understanding that nothing except hard work and knowledge,
not even TA, would make them rich. If it were that easy to make money,
everyone would be wealthy.
Right after I explained the "no secrets"
except hard work, one or two of the highest producers in the room would
usually launch into how that was the right approach and the only one that
works. I even had a few of them proclaim to the group that this was the best
seminar they had ever taken, despite the $3000 price.
In my audience
evaluation surveys, around 98% of the responses were ok to excellent. Only 2%
found something to complain about. In my experience, no matter what someone
does, somewhere around 2% to 20% of the audience will be less than pleased.
Over the 25 years or so that I worked, I probably gave a couple of hundred
seminars to different groups on a variety of topics, and I averaged 2% to 5%
could have been better type responses, and 10% to 15% who said it was the best
presentation on the subject they had ever heard. That's pretty normal in the
presentation business. Basically, there's nothing anyone can do about the 2%
to 5%. No single flavor of tea works for everyone.
Super
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equismetastock@yahoogroups.com,
Alex Spiroglou <a.spiroglou@...> wrote:
>
> This is
probably a bit OT
> but I would like to pick the brains of the senior
members of this list.
>
> I am giving a lecture (introductory) on
TA, in London.
>
> However I would like to make the whole
workshop,
> as interactive as possible.
>
> Would it be
possible to provide some
> audience engagment tricks and tips please
?
>
> For example so far I have the following :
>
>
1. Introduction
> - Creating Credibility (presenter bio)
> - Know
your audience (ask them about their experience on TA,
> and what they
expect out of the seminar)
> - Any questions they would like to have
answered during the seminar
>
> 2. During the Seminar
> -
provide examples on markets of interest
> - pause for questions
>
- etc
>
>
> any ideas would be appreciated
>
> rgds
> Alex
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> --
> Alex Spiroglou
>
>
>
> --
> Alex Spiroglou
>