Timeline for How do I give feedback when I know more about the topic than the presenter?
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| Dec 22, 2017 at 5:59 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackWorkplace/status/944084844300075009 | ||
| Dec 21, 2017 at 3:03 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Dec 17, 2017 at 0:47 | answer | added | Marcin Raczkowski | timeline score: 1 | |
| Dec 15, 2017 at 11:41 | history | protected | Lilienthal♦ | ||
| Dec 15, 2017 at 6:06 | comment | added | PagMax | Last paragraph of your question is pretty much the answer to it ! Let the guy talk and you talk if he is deferring the question to you. | |
| Dec 14, 2017 at 20:36 | comment | added | barbecue | I have very often heard people complain about others doing a bad job of presenting factual information who themselves are incapable of giving a lucid and understandable presentation. Knowing the subject doesn't guarantee you can present it well. | |
| Dec 14, 2017 at 18:39 | answer | added | SliderBlackrose | timeline score: 5 | |
| Dec 14, 2017 at 11:44 | comment | added | Simon | If you are the team lead and the presenters are your subordinates, why don't you review the presentation together in advance? So you could bring in your knowledge and the presenter learns some more. Or what's the reason you are not the presenter in the first place? | |
| Dec 14, 2017 at 9:40 | answer | added | nekomatic | timeline score: 2 | |
| Dec 14, 2017 at 3:34 | comment | added | ESR | At the end of the day, if the point of the presentation is to educate, and you are more knowledgeable, would it not make sense for you to present? If you are a team lead to juniors, concerns over giving them feedback should really be minimal. | |
| Dec 14, 2017 at 0:36 | comment | added | Johnny | "...I see that the presenter/trainer is presenting the topic in a more confusing manner than it should be" - are you sure it's really more confusing, or might it just seem confusing to you because you are an "expert" in the field? To someone that knows less about it than you, perhaps the way it was presented is less confusing | |
| Dec 13, 2017 at 19:31 | comment | added | T. Sar | Juniors giving presentations is OK. Juniors giving presentations without proper preparation and without understanding what they are talking about isn't. They are juniors, they obviously don't know everything and they have a bigger than average chance of messing things up. That's why they are juniors. Letting them go to a presentation without the proper preparation is setting them - and your team - up for failure. | |
| Dec 13, 2017 at 19:21 | history | edited | Monica Cellio |
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| Dec 13, 2017 at 16:21 | answer | added | user8365 | timeline score: 0 | |
| S Dec 13, 2017 at 14:48 | history | suggested | Sufian | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
improved readability
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| Dec 13, 2017 at 14:46 | vote | accept | Lone Learner | ||
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| Dec 13, 2017 at 8:59 | comment | added | Angew is no longer proud of SO | @LoneLearner Are you sure that juniors who have to give presentations would view "first running them by the more experienced person and getting feedback & tips before going live" as "additional overhead" and not "a very welcome help?" | |
| Dec 12, 2017 at 15:55 | comment | added | Lone Learner | @ThomasBowen It is possible sometimes, but not most of the times. Running every presentation by me would add additional overhead both for me and them. | |
| Dec 12, 2017 at 15:50 | comment | added | Tom Bowen | Is it possible if they are a junior on your team for them to run their presentations by you before they present it to others so you can check it's factually correct? | |
| Dec 12, 2017 at 15:37 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Dec 12, 2017 at 15:31 | answer | added | Kate Gregory | timeline score: 160 | |
| Dec 12, 2017 at 15:26 | comment | added | HLGEM | Plus it is very good experience for juniors to learn to do the presentations. That is part of how juniors get to be seniors. | |
| Dec 12, 2017 at 15:24 | answer | added | HLGEM | timeline score: 27 | |
| Dec 12, 2017 at 15:20 | comment | added | paparazzo | @LoneLearner You seem to be a tough position as lead. Good luck. | |
| Dec 12, 2017 at 15:15 | answer | added | Rob | timeline score: 0 | |
| Dec 12, 2017 at 15:09 | comment | added | Lone Learner | @Paparazzi I don't understand your question. What prevents a junior from presenting something? Is there an unwritten rule that the team-lead only must do all presentations? Our company culture is like this: If a developer develops a certain module or service, he/she owns it completely, so he/she presents it, trains the rest of the company about it, and so on. Sometimes, he/she might be the trainer and I may be the student because I did not work on or oversee the module/service he/she developed. | |
| Dec 12, 2017 at 15:06 | comment | added | paparazzo | If you are the team-lead then why are they giving the presentation rather than you? If you delegate the presentation then live with the outcome. | |
| Dec 12, 2017 at 14:59 | history | edited | Bernhard Barker | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Kind of obnoxious title...
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| Dec 12, 2017 at 14:51 | answer | added | user44108 | timeline score: 77 | |
| Dec 12, 2017 at 14:44 | history | asked | Lone Learner | CC BY-SA 3.0 |