Professional Panel Moderator Kristin Arnold asks Pam Fox Rollin, Executive coach and frequent Silicon Valley panel moderator on how she coaches a panelist to answer a difficult question during a panel discussion at meetings, conferences, and conventions.
Video Transcript
Kristin: Pam, how do you coach your panelists to answer a very difficult question?
Pam: If I’m working with an executive who I haven’t seen in a, like a town hall situation or something like that. So I don’t know how they’re going to do getting a tough question I’ll ask them. “So what do you if you get a question that’s kind of seems really hard for you to answer?”
And we’ll talk about it. The most important thing is what your body is communicating like be okay with being asked the question. Wow. I wish I could answer that. What I can say is doo doo doo doo doo. And just be ready to go with what you can say, and step into that rather than oh
We’re not in school anymore. Nobody’s grading us on completeness. You can take it in a positive direction.
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