Here's how you can enhance your public speaking practice with feedback loops.

Gathering data should be a continuous process. When you know the common topics you get to speak on you must keep gathering facts and points on a regular basis.

I listen back to recorded talks and learn a lot. Maybe I could have drawn out that contributor on an important point? It ‘s made me realise that ‘Getting engagement early’ is absolutely essential and the difference when I don’t do it. Writing down as you listen ‘What worked?’ And ‘What did not work so well’ helps me improve and enhance the next talk.

One thing that I have found to be helpful when public speaking is think of telling stories rather than spitting out information. It changes the timbre of your voice making it more expressive and emotional which engages connectivity in the brain.

To gather data, reliability in knowledge of respondents is very important consideration. Whether the respondents really understands the context ? Whether he/she is in a hurry? Data gathering has to be very specific, locating the target respondents, geographical areas, and also considering values and customs. The mode of gathering data affects reliability too. Respondents react to questions on the basis of their cognitive bias too.

Recently, I've given the same speech twice to different audiences and am soon delivering it for a third time. Each time, I incorporate feedback and my own judgments after watching the recordings. This process consistently enhances both the content and delivery of my speech.

After collating feedback reflecting honestly is a powerful way to keep improving as a public speaker. After each speaking engagement, take time to reflect on your performance. Ask yourself what went well and what didn't by considering audience reactions, your comfort level, and the effectiveness of your delivery. Reconnect with peers, colleagues or mentors, and ask them if your performance incorporated the feedback they had given you. Watch the recording of your speech, to objectively assess body language, vocal modulation, tone and pacing. By being totally honest with yourself and embracing constructive feedback, you can develop a confident, and impactful speaking style, to allow you to keep growing and improving.

Feedback, as honest and well intended as it can be, will always be biased to some degree. Have this in mind when receiving it and analyzing it. Be open minded but consider what works and what it might be right for you, to your speaking and communicating style(s). Give feedback to yourself - if you can watch a recording even better, but remember not to bem self-conscious and judgmental; do it like you're giving feedback to another person

Enhance your public speaking practice with feedback loops by planning specific changes based on the feedback you receive. For example, after a presentation, solicit detailed feedback from trusted colleagues or mentors regarding your delivery, content, and audience engagement. If feedback indicates you speak too quickly, plan to consciously slow your pace and incorporate more pauses in your next speech. Implementing these changes and then seeking further feedback creates a continuous improvement cycle. This approach ensures that each speaking engagement is an opportunity for growth and refinement.

Change is usually hard for many individuals, I was no exception. Over the years I have come to appreciate the power of change – and it's incredible! As a speaker, I had to cancel my drafted speeches severally because my coach demanded CHANGE. Change although painful, brings about growth. I would liken this to a caterpillar who dreams of becoming a beautiful, colourful butterfly one day – transformation (CHANGE) is inevitable. Like a caterpillar, one should be willing to effect change as a speaker after receiving constructive feedback.

Make the necessary changes, try them, see if they fit. Adapt whatever is necessary until you're satisfied with the result. Then get feedback again and repeat the processes above ;) Don't bey shy and don't ever feel "frustrated" - public speaking is much like putting muscles - you have to practice consistently and changing both "form and figure" until you achieve your desired goal.

When you are practising or rehearsing a pitch, or presentation... please do not do it in your head... your head has an incredible capability to understand things that are said and not said, and fill in the blanks, but when you actually stand up, and say it out loud, that is when all the bloopers and improvements you need to make become apparent. It's not just presentations either, it could be that important email to a customer, a chat message... if its important, take the time to read it out loud so you can hear it, the way another person would hear it.

Record and review your speeches. Implement audience surveys. Engage in peer coaching. Utilise AI analysis tools. Incorporate real-time audience feedback. Keep a self-reflection journal. Seek mentor critiques. Test with diverse audiences. Analyse social media engagement. Continuously iterate. The goal isn't perfection, but growth. Embrace feedback as a tool for evolution. What's your most valuable feedback method? Share below!

There are various public speaking platforms across the world like Toastmasters International. Being a member there, one can try out his/her speeches on stage and can get perfected over time. There every speech is given a feedback by an evaluator. Self feedback has a lot of limitations and Biases. Only once you are above Bias, your feedback will be useful for your ownself.