How do you know you're doing a good job?

This morning we attended a breakfast seminar sponsored by a financial institution we use. The lady speaker was bright, came highly recommended, was young, beautiful and had an impressive track record.

However, she was a terrible presenter; her exposé was too complicated, too long, too boring. She was making “a short story long” instead of striving for the contrary. I can understand this type of mistake. I've made it over and over during my career and most of the time, unbeknownst to me.

This said, I hope that she gets some constructive feedback, the one she can act upon in order to improve her delivery. Regrettably, that is the kind of response a budding leader never really receives as it always gets “filtrated” at its source...