Seminar Evaluation

Strengths

• Well prepared.
• High confidence in delivering seminar.
• A member of the audience asked a question. This indicates build up of interest in the seminar.
• Use of whiteboard for explanations greatly increased interest and alertness.

Weaknesses

• Low faint monotonic tired voice causing the audience to lack interest and made them sleepy. Gave the impression of doing a chore. Lacked enthusiasm, motivation and energy causing the seminar to be mostly boring.
• Visibility of text on monitor was not high for all the audience.
• Did not set context strongly for the seminar by giving at the beginning of the seminar the big picture in which the topic of the seminar fits.
• Should have explained technical concepts without asking audience if they did not know its meaning. This embarrassed them to ask for its meaning even if they did not know it.
• Giving too much details trying to cover all points in sequential order with no regard to their level of interest or the need of the audience to them. Appeared more like an academic lecture. It is better to use interesting attention-grabbing points as pigs upon which to hang the rest of the presentation.
• Should have related seminar content more to actual daily work of audience on their current system specially when giving explanatory examples.
• Smoother communication, a clearer message and a higher level of interest could have been achieved by using down-to-earth words instead of elaborately elegant wording in an attempt to create a technical or professional air.
• Dependency on the PowerPoint presentation and reading its points sequentially instead of making a conversation with the audience. This caused boredom and reduced interest and attention.