How do you like to wrap up a panel discussion at meetings, conferences, and conventions? Professional Panel Moderator Kristin Arnold asked this question of the late Warren Evans, professional speaker, futurist and member of the Canadian Speaker Hall of Fame.
Video Transcript
Kristin: Warren, how do you like to wrap up your panel discussions?
Warren: As part of the wrap-up to the panel [and I think they need some wrap-up other than “Well, we’re out of time; thanks for coming.” But if you do some wrap-up and say we talked about this, we talked about that, remind everybody how good and valuable and needed this panel was, and it would seem to me that part of your job at lunch today is figure out which of the three big issues that got addressed here is most likely to impact your specific situation and what can you do about it?
If the object of the exercise is to have a lot of buzz and debate going on at lunch, tell them what to buzz and debate about and tell them to do it at lunch.
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