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!

Session 2 – 16.04.2026

Sara, you’ve transformed rapidly from the first time you shared with us. It’s been great to watch. You are really daring to express yourself and that shows the courage required of great speaker. It was landing really well and super engaging.

You’re bringing intelligence, credibility, humour and confident communication to the end of the speaking event, lifting the energy at just the right time.

Your introduction was excellent. You did a brilliant job of finding humour in your environment and building a strong audience connection quickly. That combination of confidence and lightness worked really well.

The “fjords” section was a particularly strong language choice. Using this kind of imagery and comparison is super powerful.

You’ve also made huge progress technically. I’ve never seen someone’s use of filler words improve so quickly. Your clarity and emphasis are strong, you handled the mic and clicker well, and your posture has become much more grounded.

I’m really excited to see how your public speaking continues to develop. With your astute script writing ability and engaging personality, you’re in a great position to grow from strength to strength.

Thank you as well for leading the way in personalising your content. That made a real difference. Absolutely commit to it, it works.

Final Builds

Your posture has improved massively, especially as someone who naturally likes to move. Continue to ground yourself and “be the tree”, staying strongly rooted into the floor. This will further enhance your presence and authority. This a minor note your were on the whole very grounded.

Slide 69 was a great moment, particularly when you spoke about your love and passion for working with clients. The content leading into that could be simplified slightly. Aim to make it as clear and straightforward as possible, and look for opportunities to use rhetorical language devices to bring it to life. Building to a close here, inspiration over information. Often less is more.

In fact, this is the main focus point for you now. Where can you simplify more technical sections so they feel easier to digest/ deliver for both you and the audience? This will elevate your delivery even further. It doesn’t require any heavy editing at this stage, you could deliver as was yesterday. However, maybe give each section a quick scan and ask, is there anyway I can make it more straightforward, or break it down simply for the audience.

On the meatballs joke, give that a bit of rehearsal so you can deliver it with pace, it’s the speed of delivery that catches the audience by surprise. This will help you stay ahead of the audience and land the punchline more effectively. Of course, no worries if you want to take it slower for safety, however, if you do run it a few times before hand it can help with the laugh. Ensure it’s a list of 3 things (The last beat is always the more obscure/ quirky/ unexpected one)

Overall, this was a dynamic, entertaining and engaging performance. You really light up the stage, a real superpower. You blend credibility with personality to create a powerful balance. Amazing stuff, well done Sara.

Sara – Speakers Event: Feedback Summary

Sara, you are an excellent writer and communicator, and it was great to see how much you developed across the programme.

You bring warmth, charisma and humour to your delivery, and you made massive progress in refining your clarity and removing filler words. Your communication is now much more direct and impactful.

Development Focus

You mentioned that public speaking may not be something you wish to pursue further, and that is absolutely respected.

However, you have a strong natural ability in this area. If you did choose to develop it further, it would likely involve working more deeply on any internal blocks that you experience around speaking in public.

Forward Trajectory

Whether or not you continue with speaking, your skills are highly valuable. You really lead the way in daring to be different and engaging, whilst getting your key information across.

If you decide not to do public speaking again, you would be an excellent contributor in terms of written content, messaging and communication within the team.

If you do revisit speaking in the future, you have a very strong foundation to build from and a lot to offer creatively.