audience interaction
May 29, 2019
Q&A is often the biggest fear for many panelists. What if I get asked a hard-ball question? What if I can’t answer it? What if I […]
May 8, 2019
It started with a bit of small talk. It was a party of local entrepreneurs and I met a fascinating woman who wrote her doctorate thesis […]
May 6, 2019
Everyone likes a good story….especially when it’s a train wreck! So how do you get your panelists to spill the goods?
April 17, 2019
An easy way to get the audience engaged early on in your panel discussion is to ask for a verbal response. Preachers do this all the […]
January 22, 2019
Birth.Movies.Death editor Scott Wampler kicked off a hilarious thread where he begs the question: “Literally everyone in this stupid business has an A+ ‘crazy guy at the junket/Q&A’ […]
September 14, 2018
Where does a panel moderator get the actual questions to ask the panel? According to my colleague and Founder of Extreme Meetings, Brian Walter, he says, […]
June 8, 2018
We’ve talked before about engaging the audience early during a panel discussion.  One of my favorite ways is to turn to the audience and ask them […]
May 22, 2018
Want to break up a rather mundane panel discussion? Â Try polling the panelists!
April 26, 2018
You’re conflicted.  As a panel moderator, you WANT to involve the audience. You know that it is important and you want to keep people interested, but […]
October 12, 2017
I just inhaled Chip and Dan Heath’s new book: The Power of Moments: Why Certain Moments Have Extraordinary Impact – primarily for the insights into our ability […]
August 15, 2017
Sometimes, you just need to let the audience drive the conversation. To engage in this type of format, It really has to be a perfect storm […]
June 20, 2017
Ugh.  Sometimes, someone from the audience asks a lame question in a panel discussion.  As the panel moderator OR a panelist, I believe you have two […]
March 21, 2017
Last week, I moderated a panel discussion on “risk assessment” – a potentially boring topic – but it wasn’t boring at all!  Why?  Because I involved […]
January 11, 2017
I’m a big fan of audience interaction during a panel discussion, so you would think I would be a big proponent of having a Q&A session […]
March 31, 2016
I’m always on the lookout for a smart, brisk panel discussion format, so I was delighted to witness Michael Wilkinson, Managing Director of Leadership Strategies moderate a […]
