Design and Deliver Workshops that Get You Leads and Clients with Diane Diaz: Podcast Ep. 413

Design and Deliver Workshops that Get You Leads and Clients with Diane Diaz: Podcast Ep. 413

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When you facilitate workshops and presentations for visibility and lead generation, we want to make sure you get the results you’re looking for.

It’s perfectly fine to do free or low-cost workshops, as long as the audience aligns with the types of clients you work with, you have an offer that would be of interest to them, AND you’re willing to make that offer.

So often, we hear from women that they don’t want to sell at these types of workshops or presentations.

But, that’s the reason to do them. You need to let the attendees know how they can work with you and give them an incentive to do so.

We recently facilitated a 90-minute in-person workshop for a group of women professionals who are alumni of a program called ATHENA NextGen that I went through in 2016.We got rave reviews from the workshop – and we got a bunch of leads and new clients!

In this episode, Diane Diaz and I talk about:

  • Deciding which of our offers to present to the audience and why
  • How we almost got stuck in the expert trap when we realized that we had a bunch of content and activities but no overarching lessons
  • How we use our framework to provide a cohesive journey of transformation for the attendees, not just information
  • The importance of sharing your own personal stories, even in workshops
  • Using humor and making it fun (even if no one else wants to participate in your dance party!)
  • The specific sales techniques we used

 

 

About Us: The Speaking Your Brand podcast is hosted by Carol Cox. At Speaking Your Brand, we help women entrepreneurs and professionals clarify their brand message and story, create their signature talks, and develop their thought leadership platforms. Our mission is to get more women in positions of influence and power because it’s through women’s stories, voices, and visibility that we challenge the status quo and change existing systems. Check out our coaching programs at https://www.speakingyourbrand.com

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Carol Cox:
We’re taking you behind the scenes to share with you how we recently designed and delivered a workshop for lead generation and the results we got. On this episode of the Speaking Your Brand podcast. More and more women are making an impact by starting businesses, running for office and speaking up for what matters. With my background as a TV political analyst, entrepreneur, and speaker, I interview and coach purpose driven women to shape their brands, grow their companies, and become recognized as influencers in their field. This is speaking your brand, your place to learn how to persuasively communicate your message to your audience. Hi and welcome to the Speaking Your Brand podcast. I’m your host, Carol Cox, joined today by our lead speaking coach, Diane Diaz. Hi, Diane.

Diane Diaz:
Hi, Carol.

Carol Cox:
Today we are talking about how you can design and deliver workshops that get you leads and clients. We’re going to share with you how we recently created a 90 minute in-person workshop that we delivered here in Orlando, Florida, where we live at the end of August for a group of women professionals and entrepreneurs. And the entire idea behind us doing this in-person workshop was for visibility and exposure so that more people knew about speaking your brand and the work that we do. And because we knew we were doing this for visibility and for lead generation, there were very specific things that we did that we wanted to make sure that we got an ROI from it. And that’s the same thing that we want for you. We know that you many of you, love delivering workshops. You’re out there in your community or at conferences, giving presentations. And we also want to make sure that you’re getting leads. But, Diane, how often do we hear from women we talk to, whether it’s on console calls or clients and our thought leader academy? And what do they say to us? They don’t want to sound salesy in their workshops and their presentations. And where do you think that’s coming from?

Diane Diaz:
Well, that’s coming from having sat through workshops and presentations where the person was salesy, because we’ve all been to those and it feels icky and gross and nobody, nobody wants to be sold to. Right. It feels weird and uncomfortable.

Carol Cox:
Exactly. And so we don’t want you up there delivering an icky sales pitch either, because you’re not going to enjoy that. And your audience is not going to join that. Enjoy that. And it’s really not going to be productive for you anyways. But there are very specific things that you can do to make sure that you are getting an ROI from these workshops in your presentations that you’re doing, because after all, if you’re spending time and your energy and effort and your expertise to deliver them, we want to make sure that you’re getting something back. So we’re going to take you through how we decided on the topic for this workshop, considering who the audience was, how we then very specifically chose the offer that we were going to present to them based on who the audience was, how we created the content, designed the content, and how we made the workshop very interactive, as well as one very specific thing we did at the end of the workshop that most people don’t think about doing, but it is a game changer for getting leads and clients from these workshops and presentations that you’re doing. We’re also going to share with you the mistake that we almost made. And it was such a dumb moment when we realized it. And we’re going to share that with you because we don’t want you to make that mistake either. If you would like to work with us to develop your thought leadership, create your signature talk, which you could also use as a workshop, as well as learn the business of speaking.

Carol Cox:
We do all of those things with you in our Thought Leader Academy. We work with you closely, both one on one and in a small group. You can get all of the details and join us at speaking your brand.com/academy. All right Diane, so let’s talk about this workshop that we delivered at the end of August. It was for a group called Athena NextGen, which is a program that I went through back in 2016. And every year they bring together 50 women professionals in the Orlando community, and it’s an eight month long program, and we meet every single month in the program. And then they have different topics that they deliver. So it’s great not only for leadership development, but also for networking within the community. So because I had gone through the program, I knew that the audience were really mostly professional women. So early to mid career, not so much entrepreneurs. So we primarily work with entrepreneurs. That has been most of our clientele, but these were women who worked for other companies. So we knew, number one, when we thought about the topic, that it was going to be about personal branding. So, Diane, can you tell us a little bit about kind of this idea of creating a standout personal brand and how we thought that it would be a great topic that would appeal to both professionals and entrepreneurs.

Diane Diaz:
Yeah. So obviously for entrepreneurs, you know, when you’re building a business that’s yours, you need to have a personal brand that stands out, distinctive, clear, you know, because it’s so connected to your company, to your business brand. Now, for professional women who work for a company that they don’t own. Having a personal brand still important. So we wanted to make sure that they those women understood that yes, you need to build you’re building something with the company. You’re out there promoting the company you work for, but you also have thought leadership. You also have a message. You also have a brand, and you should build that alongside what you’re building with the company. Because at the end of the day, that’s all that you own. So if you end up leaving a company that is yours, right. And so you should still have a presence and your voice should come through even in the work that you do at a company.

Carol Cox:
Exactly. Yeah, very well said. So there were about 50 women in attendance. That was the max and 50 women for the space that we were at that that could hold. So it was full house and it was a lot of fun. The first 30 minutes is women started arriving was their networking time. It was breakfast. So this was early in the morning from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m.. And so we designed a personal brand bingo card with the help of ChatGPT and Canva. And it was beautiful. So we printed that out on cardstock. And when the women arrived, they grabbed one of the bingo cards and it was a great icebreaker. They would go around and find other women there who met one of the criteria on the bingo card related to personal branding. Things like the person has been a panelist at a conference, or has a podcast, or has been featured in the media, has a LinkedIn active LinkedIn profile, things like that. So it was a great way to to break the ice and to get them talking to each other. Because I don’t know about you, Diane, but as introverts, showing up at an event, especially during the quote unquote networking time is for me, the most nerve wracking because you want to talk to people, but you also kind of like you feel like, okay, what am I going to ask them? But having that bingo card, I love that as an attendee.

Diane Diaz:
Yeah, I agree it is. It’s hard, I think, especially when you, you know, there might be women in the group, groups of women who all know each other, but then 1 or 2 people come who maybe don’t know that many people or the person they know is not there, and they do feel a little bit kind of on the outside. So having that bingo card lets them feel more comfortable in, because now you have a reason to go up to somebody and ask them, hey, do you have a podcast? And then you just start talking? I love that idea.

Carol Cox:
And as the ones facilitating the workshops. So if you are the workshop facilitator, make sure you are also mingling with women when they arrive. Like obviously get there earlier to do all your setup, make sure everything is good to go so that whatever the start time is for the people arriving, you are ready to start interacting with them because you want to make sure they feel welcome, that they have a good experience. And if you see a woman by herself, you know that look where, you know, they’re kind of looking around and they don’t really know who to go up to you as a workshop facilitator or the speaker or the event organizer, go up to them and introduce yourself and get to know them a little bit. They will be so grateful.

Diane Diaz:
Oh yes, I’ve been that person, so we will be grateful. Yes.

Carol Cox:
So. So the topic was about creating a stand out standout personal brand. They had that 30 minutes of networking with the bingo card, and then after that was the 90 minutes for the workshop. And we really wanted the women to understand not only why building a personal brand was important, especially if they work for a company, but also how to think about what makes them unique their mission, their values, the work that they do. Why the work that they do matters to them, and how they can kind of tie together all the different threads in their career. I feel like nowadays, so many of us, we don’t just have one industry we’ve worked in or one type of career we’ve had. We’ve maybe majored in something in college and didn’t end up doing that for our career. And we’ve had different jobs. And so a lot of times people don’t know how to tie it all together. It feels really messy. So we wanted to help them understand how to connect all of that. We really wanted to make it fun and energetic, have different activities for them to do. And so here’s the mistake that we almost made. We put together all these different content ideas. We have these different activities and our frameworks that we use on other workshops that we’ve given, like our brand voice canvas and our personal brand pillars, and thinking about the different spokes of your personal brand. So and then we had this really fun brand personality thing for them to figure out. So we had all these activities, and I remember I was going to work on the slide deck. This is a couple weeks beforehand.

Carol Cox:
I was like, something feels really off. Like, these are great activities. Like our frameworks are great, but I don’t know if something is just not gelling. It’s not coherent. And then I realized, duh, because we hadn’t put it into our signature talk framework. And that’s why we teach the women our framework in the Thought Leader Academy when we’re working with them on the VIP day, we do that work for them, but then they’re also learning it because any presentation you do, any workshop that you design, this framework helps you to make sure you’re taking the audience on a journey and not just giving them a whole bunch of activities back to back, where there’s no bigger picture or connecting thread to it. And that’s what we wanted to make sure that we avoided. And luckily we I figured that out as soon as I was working on that slide deck, because that’s where as a workshop facilitator or a speaker, you get stuck in that expert trap that we talk about, which is just you’re giving your audience a bunch of information and activities which in and of themselves are valuable. It’s good content, it’s good activities. But if there’s not a bigger lesson about that transformation you want your audience to go through, by understanding this information, by doing these activities, they’re just going to do a bunch of them and then walk away and not really know. Well, where did that all mean? What does that mean for me? So that’s why we want to make sure that you’re thinking about putting this through the signature Talk Canvas framework, and that we did a whole episode on this back a couple of years ago.

Carol Cox:
And I’ll put a link to the show notes. I’m walking you through the framework. So let’s talk about thinking about how to kind of we had all these activities. And so what I ended up doing was putting them under three key lessons that we wanted the audience to take with them, and that’s what we kind of put the activities underneath these three key lessons. So if you think about your own content, think about that through line of your topic. What are kind of the bigger picture or lessons that you want the audience to take? Put your content and activities underneath those, say three key lessons, and then make sure you’re also having unique frameworks that you’re having your audience work on, like some of the ones that we just mentioned that we have, because it’s going to help you to set yourself apart so that you’re not just doing the same kind of work that they’ve seen from other people. They’re doing something different. So, Diane, I know that when the workshop we had them do the brand voice canvas and the personal brand pillars, which is something we created, is we invented it. And so I know you’ve done a lot of personal brand workshops, not not just you facilitating it, but attending it or learned a lot about personal branding over the years. So can you tell us a little bit about kind of why having your own unique frameworks when you’re presenting content is so helpful to the audience, but also helpful for them to then want to work with you.

Diane Diaz:
Yeah. So I have attended many, many things about personal branding, and I can tell you from that experience that I don’t really remember anything about any of those. And so one thing that I think the framework, having your unique framework and incorporating that into your workshop and using it with the attendees is that it’s more memorable, it’s more memorable for them, and it helps them to sort of encapsulate the information you’re sharing with them into a little container that’s easy to remember, easy to digest, easy to work with, and it makes it more enjoyable, frankly, right. When we put it in sort of that little framework like that. So definitely create frameworks that you can use. I think it also just threads everything together more effectively. So it’s not just this content dump, because if someone just comes and tells you a bunch of stuff about personal branding. Okay, great. But now I can’t take that and then go do anything with it, because I’m probably only going to remember a fraction of it. But if you give me a framework and now I’ve done an exercise and I’ve written some things down. Okay, now I’m thinking. I’m thinking about how all the pieces fall together. It’s like a puzzle, right? So the framework is hugely helpful.

Carol Cox:
Yes, exactly. And then they’re taking it away from like, literally taking it away from them. So now you’re staying top of mind. So we created a workbook a little kind of worksheets for them that were stapled together. And if you’re watching the video which you can see on the podcast episode page, you can see I’m holding up the workbook here. So it has kind of the title of the workshop. It has a QR code for them to take our speaker archetype quiz. You can have a QR code wherever you want to, has a page about us, and then it has the different worksheet pages. So for example we have like the brand voice canvas here. So again we’re having them take a few minutes to fill this out. But now they’re taking it with them. So they have all of this branded by speaking your brand that they’re going to keep with them because it’s valuable content for them. We also have here’s the bingo card. If you come back to the video you can see that a lot of fun. So yeah. So having your own frameworks, which is one of the things we also do in the Thought Leader Academy during that VIP day that we do with you one on one is that we’re mapping out your talk based on your content and your ideas, and we’re also helping you to develop your own unique framework, your intellectual property, if you don’t already have one. So that’s a lot of fun as well.

Diane Diaz:
I also think that the framework sort of elevate the content, meaning like if you go to a talk about any topic and they just talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, even if they have stories and engagement and all that, that’s great. But if you go somewhere and there’s a framework, it feels like, oh, they put a lot of thought into this, right? It feels more elevated. So now you are seen as more of a thought leader, as more of a professional in the space that you’re working in. So it’s a great way to not only, like Carol said, brand, you know, your your company and the work that you do, but also you as the person up there who’s the go to for this topic.

Carol Cox:
Excellent point. I completely agree because so often we see speakers and workshop facilitators who use other people’s content in their workshop, and it’s fine to have, you know, to take 1 or 2 things, obviously, give credit to whomever you’re taking it from, but you really need to create your own stuff because that’s what’s going to help you stand out. And to your point, then the audience is like, oh, well, if she can create this incredible, these, this incredible framework, and she obviously has put a lot of time and energy into this, then clearly she knows what she’s talking about and she would be a great person to work with. All right. So that’s so frameworks are a must. The other thing and this is where you may be surprised with workshops personal stories. And you know we talk about storytelling a lot on this podcast. And you know, if you’re doing a keynote or a TEDx talk, stories are front and center. And you may think, well, workshops. But workshops are about the work. They’re about learning. They’re about training. They’re about the activities. I don’t need personal stories. But yes, you do need personal stories because that’s what people remember and that’s how you connect with your audience. And we shared some personal stories in that workshop, and it also helps the women to open up. So, Diane, how did you feel? You know, after we shared some personal stories, what was the kind of the vibe in the room?

Diane Diaz:
I think they felt more connected to us. So here comes a group of 50 women, right? They all sit down at the tables and it’s us standing at the front and them at the tables. Right. So you feel you feel a little bit disconnected at the start. And then we start talking and going through different exercises. But then the personal stories come in. Then they feel permission to open up about their personal stories, because we did at some point ask for audience members to share. Well, now we’ve shared, right? We’ve opened up, we’ve been vulnerable, we’ve shared, they’re more willing to share, which is going to embed and solidify what they’re learning even more, because now they’re applying it to their own personal stories. And other women then in the audience get to hear that, and then that models it for them. And so it sort of becomes this. I mean, it sounds sort of silly, but it’s like this kumbaya moment, right? It’s like because we’re all sort of in this together and we’re all supporting one another. But that is what stories do. That’s what personal stories do.

Carol Cox:
Yes. And you as the workshop facilitator or the speaker, you have to role model that vulnerability. You have to role model that storytelling. If you want the workshop attendees to do the same, because you can’t expect them to do it. I mean, some will, but, but, but if you don’t do it first, then there may be more reluctant to do so. So that’s the kind of the first thing when you think about your workshop design is the content. So make sure that you have that clear through line based on your topic, maybe making sure you’re wrapping your information in your content and your activities under like three key lessons or kind of the bigger picture. Have some of your own unique frameworks that you’re presenting to the audience and having them work on, and make sure you are also telling a few personal stories along the way. So that’s the content piece. The next piece is the facilitation. Now obviously you want to make it fun and energetic, you know, especially if they’re there for 90 minutes or a half a day or a full day. So we varied the activity. Some of them, they would spend a few minutes working quietly by themselves and writing things down on the worksheet. Sometimes they would talk to the person next to them or to the entire all the women who were at their table. And then we also had a few of the women get up and share in front of the entire audience what they had worked on, say, for their brand voice, canvas or some of the goals that they had. So it’s a good idea to vary the activities. The other thing that we like to do at our workshops, which which we are always 100% committed to, and sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t, was a dance party. So about halfway through the 90 minutes, you know, we knew we wanted to kind of make sure to bring up the energy in the room. You know, we’ve been sitting for a while. We wanted the, you know, the women to get up and move around. And what happened? Diane?

Diane Diaz:
Uh, we were the only ones dancing. It was just. Just you and me. That’s all. So it was really a show, not a party.

Carol Cox:
Oh, we tried so hard.

Diane Diaz:
We really did. I think part of it was, and this is maybe a good lesson, is consider the audience and where they’re coming from and time of day and everything. So these women, professional women, most of whom were in professional dress with high heels, so maybe that factored in somehow into them not really wanting to get up and dance. Right. So who knows. But and every group has its own dynamic.

Carol Cox:
Yeah, absolutely. But we did our best. But regardless, at least we had some music. At least we danced along. And it was probably memorable to them to see us just moving around. Right?

Diane Diaz:
Yes. And I will say we did add in fun memes, and the one, the meme that we used for the dance party was Elaine from Seinfeld and her terrible dancing. It’s something about thumbs. If you look it up, you’ll know what I’m talking about or if you’re a fan. And I think even though they didn’t want to dance, that was funny. And they loved that because everybody identified with it.

Carol Cox:
Well, yes. And that’s a great point about humor. That’s the other thing with workshops and, well, any presentation that you do, keynote conference, presentation workshop is make sure that you have intentionally put humor in, whether it’s funny video clips, funny memes, things like that, because you need to lighten the mood and you need to make sure that people are having a good time and laughing. And it’s not just all serious work that you’re doing.

Diane Diaz:
Especially if your dance party doesn’t work, then. Yes, exactly.

Carol Cox:
All right. So that so that was number two. Facilitation. Make it fun. Make it energetic. Your audience is going to take the lead from you. And if you’re not into the topic, if you’re not passionate and enthusiastic about the topic, they’re not going to be either. So make sure you’re presenting on a topic that you really enjoy talking about. So that was number two facilitation. Number three now is the lead generation piece. So the first thing is to think about what type of offer makes the most sense for this particular audience that you’re doing this workshop for. It could be your primary offer. So our signature program is our thought Leader Academy. That’s where most of our clients go through when they work with us. But we knew for this particular audience who are mostly professional women, the Thought Leader Academy was probably not the next step for them. After having just gotten to know us for the first time. And they may not even necessarily be speakers, or maybe thinking about speaking like they’re maybe on much earlier in the process. And it just so happened that six weeks from that date that we were doing this, this workshop, we were holding an in-person speaking workshop in Orlando. So very similar location it was all these women were obviously local.

Carol Cox:
They lived in Orlando who were coming to this free workshop that we were doing here for the Athena next gem. So we figured this would be a good offer for them, because it would be a way for to get to to know us. It was a lower price point than the Thought Leader Academy and they were already local, so that’s why we wanted to make sure that that was the offer that we made. We made to them. So the way that we did this is throughout the workshop content. We made sure that we planted sale seeds. So we had client success stories that we shared, some of the women that we worked with and what brought them to us and how they’ve been successful. And so that’s a great way to do that. It doesn’t come off as salesy at all. It really comes off as an inspirational and aspirational point that you’re making. We would drop things in like in our Thought Leader Academy. We work with our clients to do X, Y, and Z. It’s literally one sentence. It’s not a sales pitch, but you’re letting the audience know the type of work that you do and who you work with. And so we planted those sales seeds along the way. And then here’s what we did at the very end.

Carol Cox:
And I want you to do this at any. In-person workshop or in-person presentation that you do, which is to. Have a feedback form. And again, people looking at the video, you can see me. Holding up the feedback form. So the feedback form we attach to the the rest of the worksheet pages is staple. But then at the end we have them separated rip rip it off. And then they fill in their name their email address, what they what their number one takeaway was, what they what they most enjoyed about the workshop and then say like whatever their next step is or something like that. So we so that’s great because now you’re getting testimonials that you can use from that workshop or that presentation that you just gave. So that’s the first part. But the second part of the feedback form, this is what makes it literally gold is at the bottom. There are checkboxes. And these checkboxes are things like I’d like to schedule a consultation call to learn about working with speaking your brand. Or I’d like to hire a referral referral Carol or Diane to speak at another event or organization. So now you’re collecting leads right here. And then the third checkbox I always do the last checkbox is please send me the PDF version of the workbook or the slides and add me to your email list.

Carol Cox:
So something that’s free like some type of lead magnet or opt in because that way they are at least checking that one off, and then it gives them more incentive to fill out the form and turn it back in because they’re at least checking that one off. But I’ll and the feedback form, you’ll generally get at least a 50% return rate of them, oftentimes a lot higher than that. And then you’ll get the check boxes. Because the reason we have people do this is that a lot of times we’ll hear, well, can’t they just fill out the survey online like talk a dot is a well known one. And yes, you can still do that and collect stuff online for sure. Or I have the QR code on the worksheet or on my slide. Can’t they just click the QR code and go to the website or whatever? Yes, they could, but here’s what happens. They love the they love what they heard at the workshop or at the conference, and then they go back to the office, or they travel back from the conference, or they go back to their laptop. And what happens? Diane.

Diane Diaz:
Never hear from them again. Right. Because we all have good intentions and then we get busy, something else comes up and then we forget about it.

Carol Cox:
Exactly. So you want to make sure that you are in control of who your leads are, and then you can reach out to them. So that way, after you get all the feedback forms collected, then you go and you send them a nice thank you. If they wanted the opt in, you send that to them. And then if they wanted to schedule a console call, send them your account, your scheduling link or dates and so on. So now you can follow up with them. And so that and that they don’t have to worry about doing it themselves. But now here’s the other thing that we did is on the back of that feedback form, we also had a form where they could register for that in-person speaking workshop. We were doing six weeks from them and we gave them an extra discount, an incentive, a fast action bonus. So to speak, if they signed up that same day. So that same day they had to register for the In Speaking workshop. The the in-person speaking workshop, because, again, we knew they may have good intentions of wanting to go. And the same thing happens. They get back, they forget about it, they delay. I’m in such a big believer in taking action and making decisions quickly, because otherwise decisions just hang over your head and then you wonder, should I do it? Should I not do it? And honestly, I want to take that decision fatigue away from you.

Carol Cox:
So the way I do that is by giving you this extra incentive for them to just go ahead and sign up that day, and it works. So we had two women from that workshop who signed up right away, a few of the other women. And this was the challenge with women who work for other companies, is that they needed to get approval from their supervisor or their supervisor or supervisor in order to have the company pay for it, which we hadn’t really anticipated because we don’t work with a lot of women like that. So that didn’t quite work out. But that’s okay, because maybe they can do a future workshop that we’re. Offering. So that so that was great. And so we got so mission accomplished. We got. Clients from this. We also got leads for other organizations who wanted to do. Similar training than what we did. So now we have leads for paid trainings for other companies who were there. So yeah, go ahead.

Diane Diaz:
Carol, I love the the way we structured that. We do a workshop and then the offer is a workshop because they saw right what action and learnings and takeaways sort of blew them away from that workshop that we gave at Athena. And then now they’re going to come to a paid workshop. So imagine what that’s going to be like. Right? So we sort of it’s sort of a no risk situation for them, right? Because we’ve already proven to them in their minds that we can deliver. Right. So then purchasing to come to a workshop feels like no risk.

Carol Cox:
That’s. Yeah. Excellent point. Right. The offer was very much aligned with. Yes. Literally what they were experiencing that morning with us. And so here’s some of the feedback that we got on those feedback forms as well as on LinkedIn posts that women shared afterwards. So one woman said today’s workshop was phenomenal. I feel like I leveled up so much today. I can only imagine the magic that happens with a full day, you see, right? And she signed up for that full day with us. Another woman said it was an outstanding program, the work. This workshop was my first. Definitely not my last. Thank you for the inspiration and knowledge shared. I’m feeling energized and ready to become a thoughtful storyteller, right? Another woman said, I really loved the energy of your workshop because it didn’t feel like a workshop, but more like an inspirational conversation. Nice.

Diane Diaz:
That’s what we want.

Carol Cox:
That’s what we love to hear. Because thinking about these overall takeaways for you, if you’re doing any type of presentation, including workshops, focus on the transformation you want the audience to have, not just a bunch of information for them to try to consume and do something with. Think about that bigger transformation you want for them and then walk them through that. The energy comes from you as a facilitator. Try the funny video clips. Try the dance parties. Right. See what happens. So what happens is you’re dancing by yourself. Oh, well, I mean right.

Diane Diaz:
At least that’s fun still.

Carol Cox:
Yeah, right. At least you’re getting your energy up. Yes. Share your own personal stories. Even in workshops, they still make a big difference. And of course, incorporate fun and humor with what you are doing. So it was a great experience. Diane, thank you so much for co-facilitating that with me. And I’m looking forward to doing many more of those.

Diane Diaz:
Yes. That was so fun. I love a group of women like that because the energy in the room was amazing.

Carol Cox:
It was, and we still hear from them of how much they enjoyed it. So if you would like to discover your speaker archetype. One of our speaker archetypes is called the Fabulous Facilitator. We know you are out there who love doing workshops more so than you like. Say, speaking on a stage you’re really not too keen, maybe on doing a keynote type of talk, but you really love doing workshops, which is great. Take our speaker archetype quiz because you’re going to get recommendations for how to amplify what you’re already great at, but then also how you can add to it to do some things that maybe you’re not already doing so that you can wow your audience even more. That’s an entirely free quiz. Ten multiple choice questions. Just take a few minutes to to get it, and then you’ll get your results right away. You can take that quiz as speaking your brand.com/quiz again that’s speaking your brand.com/quiz Diane, thank you so much for joining us today.

Diane Diaz:
Thank you Carol.

Carol Cox:
Until next time. Thanks for listening.

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