Soundbite 08: How to moderate a panel like a pro
07/26/23 • 11 min
The art of moderating a panel. For many, a “Dark Art”. How to lead your speakers, keep your audience engaged and (where necessary) even keep the peace! Panels need a steady hand and intense concentration. In this Speechless Soundbite, co-hosts Simon Bucknall and Maryam Pasha get into the practicalities of moderating a panel discussion, and some quick actionable tips to help you level up, fast.
The art of moderating a panel. For many, a “Dark Art”. How to lead your speakers, keep your audience engaged and (where necessary) even keep the peace! Panels need a steady hand and intense concentration. In this Speechless Soundbite, co-hosts Simon Bucknall and Maryam Pasha get into the practicalities of moderating a panel discussion, and some quick actionable tips to help you level up, fast.
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Speechless – Tell Stories that Change the World - Soundbite 08: How to moderate a panel like a pro
Transcript
Maryam Pasha 0:01
Welcome to speechless sound bites practical storytelling tips in under five minutes. In this week's speech, the sound bite, we take a look at how to chair panels, which we know can be notoriously tricky.
Simon Bucknall 0:16
Panel discussions and all the fireside chat whether impersonal online become very, very popular over recent years is quite noticeable both in house as well as industry wide events and so on. But they can be made or broken by the quality of the f
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