SARA – Feedback Notes

Day 1: Charisma, Content, Humour & Clarity

🌟 Your Superpowers

Sara, your ability to take on feedback was seriously impressive. I’ve never seen anyone clean up their ‘ums’ so quickly!

You are really strong at building and shaping content quickly

You were able to:

• Apply hooks

• Integrate humour (and land the joke really well)

• Structure ideas effectively

And do it fast. That is a huge creative and communication advantage.

You also bring:
👉 charisma, energy, clarity and personality

This is not just a strength, it’s a defining part of your personal brand as a speaker.

When you combine:

• Engaging content

• Strong presence

• Subject authority

• Humour, excitement and personality

You become:
👉 A very engaging and entertaining speaker.

That’s a powerful place to be. Well done!

🔧 Builds / Next Focus Areas

First Impressions = Stage Authority 🎤

You took this note on straight away

When you step up:

• Pause

• Breathe. Take in the room

• Smile

• Connect - eye contact.

• Remember, you’re in control, you decide when you’re ready to start.

This immediately signals:
👉 confidence and assurance.

Cleaner Delivery (Filler Words)

You made amazing progress in such a short space of time!

Keep practising this, well done! (Don’t worry if a couple slip in on the day though!)

Confidence Reframe 🧠

This is about your relationship with speaking.

Shift it to:
👉 something positive, enjoyable, and empowering

Simple tool:

• Focus on friendly faces

• Imagine support in the room, or simply replace the audience with something that genuinley puts a smile on your face.

This changes everything internally. It sounds like you had a difficult early experience with performance, We can work to reshape that, it’s so great to see you up there!

Grounded Presence 🌳

Your grounding work was excellent.

Your “tree position” gives you:

• Stability

• Authority

• Presence

If you move:

• Make it purposeful (e,g a clean move across the stage, although this will not be relevant when speaking from a lecturn)

• Then, reset into stillness

This balance is powerful. However, you found that stillness so quickly, not easy! If you need to get some movement out before you go on stage I can show you a quick ‘shake out’ exercise. Your deep breath work will also calm the body’s urge to move.

Confidence

I will share general tips for the whole group around confidence. One tool for you could be: Revisit this page, write down all of the positives about your speaking. Say them out loud. What you are good at as a speaker. Say them as much as you need. Sometimes saying it, even if we don’t quite see it believe it yet can help take our confidence to the next level. I want to really support you to own your talents (of which there are many) affirm them and really get clear on them.

Content

As mentioned you shaped up content quickly and effectively. This will be one of your key strengths.

This will go for most speakers, but consider how to utilise quotes, key messages, straightforward language, humour or any of the rhetorical devices on the separate sheet to help refine the memorability and simplicity of your content further (especially around phrases that are harder to understand). That said, you deliver with clarity and are easy to follow which is great.

Be sure to setup the context of being Norwegian early, so that great joke lands later. If you can link Norway to the audience or topic some way in the opening too, all the better.

🚀 Key Identity Shift

You’re not just engaging.

👉 When you step into your creativity and passion, you become a charismatic, humourous, high-impact speaker with real authority and presence. Well done!