Thee Alan Herbert (Ethos)

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Two moderators. Which one is better? One asks the same question to all four panellists. Two asks one opening question, then builds every question after that out of what the last person said. If you picked one, you have described queuing. Most people in this city calling themselves moderators are queuing. Here is why it fails. Four panellists on the same panel usually know a lot of the same things. Ask them the same question and you get four versions of the same answer. You have not mined anything. You have just gone round the table. Do this instead. Open with one question to one panellist. Listen properly. Then take something they actually said and build your next question on it. "That is not the question I asked James, but what would you add, and I would like you to weigh in on what he just said." Now it is a conversation. Before that it was a line. Which one have you sat through recently? Be honest. #EventMC #Moderator #ConferenceLife #Nairobi #Kenya

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A panellist tells you 100,000 people got jobs last month. Most moderators say thank you and move to the next person. That is where the session dies. Here is the thing nobody says out loud. The first answer you get is always rehearsed. Organisers send the questions ahead, panellists go and research, and they arrive with something polished and safe. Polished and safe is boring. So press. Of the 100,000, how many are women? How many are men? How many are persons with disabilities? Which counties? Now they have to think. Now you are getting something that was not prepared in a car on the way here. That is the answer the room actually came for. And while you are doing all that, watch the clock. I am guilty of this one. The conversation gets good and you forget you are on a timer. Stop walking into panels and just reading the questions somebody handed you. Do you actually ask follow-ups? And what makes a follow-up for you? Tell me below. #Moderator #EventMC #ConferenceLife #Nairobi #Kenya

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No app. Just a phone, the right shop and the next pikipiki. The errand runners in this city are running a whole business off DMs and nobody gave them permission. Who is your favourite one in the CBD? 👇 #nairobi #nairobicbd #kenyatiktok #hustlekenya #mouldingpossibilities