If you don’t watch recordings of your own media interviews and presentations after the event you’re living in a La La Land.
Why? Because it’s a really easy way of getting better. By seeing or hearing what you already do well and building on that. And by learning from what you do less well so you can be an even better interviewee, presenter or public speaker next time.
Nobody thinks it strange that professional footballers pore endlessly over videos of every angle of each game. Or that top athletes deconstruct every stride of even a 100m race which is over in a matter of seconds. But for some reason those of us who speak for a living or as a part of the job description rarely pay so much attention.
So what’s holding us back? Here’s what, says ACM Training’s media and comms expert, Rich Uridge in “S is for the Sound of your own voice” another episode in the Z to A of Media Training.