Susan Bender Phelps – Grooming Champions

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Speech evaluation is a skill we strive to develop. It is intended to give our members concrete feedback that will help them grow and develop as speakers. It is also an opportunity for our members to craft an evaluation speech that publicly demonstrates their own speaking and critical thinking skills. If we approach evaluation as an opportunity to groom a champion, we deliver a higher level of actionable feedback that empowers the speaker and the members of our clubs.

After this session you will understand the context for constructive speech evaluation.

  • Learn how to listen for what can improve a speech, even one that sounds too good to improve.
  • Learn the basics of giving actionable feedback – feedback the speaker can use and build on.
  • Feel confident when it is your turn to evaluate a speaker in your club.

 About the Speaker

Susan Bender Phelps runs Odyssey Mentoring and Leadership. She has trained hundreds in the art and science of professional and youth mentoring, leadership and communication. She designs and delivers powerful professional mentoring programs for organizations whose leaders value their employees and the contributions to their enterprise.

Throughout her career, she has produced success after success in marketing, advertising and public relations – increased sales, broadened customer bases, community action, and media campaigns.  She has more than 25 years of hands-on business, management and public speaking experience. She holds a masters degree in Management and Organizational Leadership. She lives in Oregon with her husband. Her book, “Aspire Higher,” tells compelling success stories of career and business mentoring. Susan is an avid reader, SCUBA diver and golfer. She loves traveling the globe – sightseeing and sampling local foods and wines.