It seems March 15 to May 31 is one big con­fer­ence. While lots of peo­ple are mak­ing the gas sta­tions and air­lines happy I haven’t needed to leave NEPA to have a conference-a-thon. I have been spend­ing week­ends writ­ing, fresh­en­ing up and tar­get­ing pre­sen­ta­tions and week­days deliv­er­ing. Cut­ting edge and let me check the law today before I speak tomor­row for HR and dif­fer­ent tweaks for stu­dents, job seek­ers and seniors.

How do I know if it’s gone well?

Many times after a sem­i­nar atten­dees stick around and ask ques­tions and I always stay around until they have all been answered.  I look at the eval­u­a­tions to see how well the con­tent res­onated and if there are sug­ges­tions for next time. But for me the real feed­back comes from what hap­pens in the days and weeks after the presentation.

I feel I have done well when peo­ple con­nect with me and want to stay in touch. I get a lot of tech­ni­cal ques­tions on how to do this or that and I get plenty of requests for one-on-one ses­sions and peo­ple ask­ing to tap into my net­work. I think that’s fan­tas­tic, and it shows the expe­ri­ence met or exceeded their expectations.

So, when Wendy sent me the mes­sage in the screen­shot today on Face­book it struck me that she didn’t want any­thing other than to tell me that she real­ized the impor­tance of what I pre­sented and made a deci­sion to imple­ment the strat­egy. I offered fur­ther sup­port and she wrote back that she wasn’t look­ing for me to do the work for her but she would let me look at it when she has it up and run­ning. A huge smile came to my face, she got it.

Recre­ate Wendy and then show the world…

Another mis­sion accomplished.