panel moderation
February 18, 2016
I was chatting with Dutch Driver, a colleague from the early days of facilitation (we actually used a listserv to communicate!), about the power of asking a […]
January 7, 2016
Happy New Year to all panelists, panel moderators, and those who may be preparing or perfecting their skills for an upcoming panel discussion. Per our tradition, Joe and I are […]
December 21, 2015
Who schedules a presidential primary debate on a SATURDAY night? I guess if you don’t want anyone to tune in, it’s a good strategy.
November 19, 2015
Congratulations! You have moderated an amazingly successful panel discussion. You met the panel objectives, delivered on the promise, made the panelists look like heroes and the […]
October 21, 2015
It’s almost showtime! 45-60 minutes before the panel discussion is to start, the panel moderator and the panelists should meet each other face to face for about 15 […]
September 24, 2015
Harry A. Overstreet, an American Educator who was the first to write about the panel process said, “No one, under any circumstances, is to rise and […]
August 27, 2015
I was talking with Tim Mathy at SpeakInc about a panel he was on that “flowed amazingly well.”
August 19, 2015
Popular television shows are great venues to look for ways to spice up your next panel program. It can be something as simple as riffing an […]
July 29, 2015
I’m always on the look-out for unique ways to spice up a panel discussion – and most of them seemed to be based on TV games […]
March 20, 2015
Yesterday, two seemingly unrelated items about panels hit the national media.
March 12, 2015
A recipe for panel disaster is allowing the panelists to “just show up” and expect brilliance to spring forth. Sure, it could happen if the panelists […]
January 30, 2015
I stumbled upon a picture of a panel recently and cringed. The moderator and panelists are sitting on simple, four legged barstools with an itty bitty […]
January 20, 2015
A few years back, I moderated two panels of my peers at the National Speakers Association’s CSP/CPAE Summit in Coral Gables, FL. The Summit had about […]
October 15, 2014
Every once in a while, I hear a drum beat for an end to panels at meetings, conferences and conventions. Many of these commentaries lament that […]
July 20, 2014
At the 2014 National Speakers Association (NSA) Convention, Mark Sanborn moderated the Executive Exchange Panel with Steve Forbes, Chairman and Editor in Chief, Forbes Media, Kat Cole, […]
