Follow Up After Your Talk
Your presentation is done, and the adrenaline has stopped pumping. Now what?
Once you’ve won people over to your point of view, help them implement your ideas. Encourage them. Bring them new insights. Remove roadblocks. Keep your message alive by:
- Sending personal notes: It’s rare to get a nice handwritten note these days, and people appreciate it when they do. Send a note whenever you feel grateful—to a colleague who helped you set up your presentation, for example, or to a busy executive who made time to attend and voice her support. (I’ve sent a few “I’m sorry” notes, too—it works both ways.) It can be a formal branded thank-you note or a clever card that touches on a personal conversation you had with an audience ...