Whatever the occasion and the reason you're giving feedback, for school or informally, it's better to write down your criticisms, praise, and comments, so the speaker will have some document of your feedback. If you have some suggestions, it'll be too easy for the speaker to forget, especially immediately following the speech. It's best to write a short note, no more than 250 or 300 words, to accompany your evaluation of the speech. For some speech classes, you may have to fill out a rubric or assign a grade to a speech. Follow the specific class instructions regarding this and assign a grade appropriate. Starting feedback with a summary of what you took from the speech is the most helpful way of letting the speaker know whether or not what they were trying to say was communicated accurately. Don't worry about whether or not your summary is perfectly accurate or not. If you were listening closely and trying your best to follow it, any failure on your part should be instructive for the speaker. That's something they need to make more clear in the speech.  Try to start your response with things like, “What I heard you saying is…” or “What I got from this speech was…” A good summary should be several sentences in the evaluation, perhaps slightly less than half of your feedback. Identify the main idea and the main supporting points of the speech. The summary should focus on content only. Not everyone can or should be Martin Luther King Jr. Focusing your feedback primarily on the oratorical skills of the speaker isn’t usually going to be that helpful, especially if we’re talking about a class speech, a wedding speech, or some kind of business presentation. If the speaker is mostly a wet blanket, focus on how the content could better match the speaking style and how the tone might be changed to match. These are changeable things. Telling a speaker to be "more dynamic" or "funny" isn't good feedback. Even if you just watched your best friend struggle through the lamest best-man speech of all time, it’s important to find something good to say. Start your feedback with some praise and start off the evaluation with good will. Make all feedback constructive criticism, not destructive. Starting off by telling someone how nervous they look while delivering the speech, or how flat the speech was will only make those elements worse.  If you thought the speech was boring, instead learn to say something like, "It was subdued, which I think works well for the occasion." If the speaker seemed nervous, try to reassure them with some compliments, "You seemed confident up there. The material really speaks for itself." Aim all feedback at making specific changes that will improve the speech, not identifying what is wrong with the speech, or what seems to be not working for you about it. This will give the speaker something constructive and will work to make the speech better, rather than simply tearing it down. Don’t say, “I didn’t like the jokes you used,” say, “Next time, I think you could leave the jokes out and the speech would move a little quicker.” Overburdening someone with fifty different things to fix and work on can make the job seem hopeless. As an evaluator, it’s important to focus on three major areas of improvement and worry less about more secondary things.  Focus first on content corrections, the organization of the speech, and the tone before you focus on anything else in the speech. These are the most important categories for improvement, and the best ways to quickly improve the speech. Think of these as the highest order of concern. Worry about the specifics of the delivery later. Whether or not the timing of the joke at the end of the speech works should be one of the last things a speaker worries about. If the speech is already very good, feel free to move onto these secondary concerns.
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One-sentence summary -- Write your feedback down. Summarize the speech as you understood it. Focus your feedback primarily on the content of the speech. Always find something to praise. Focus your feedback on revision of the speech. Try to focus on no more than three key areas of improvement.

Article: Tap “Meetings” on the bottom menu. Since Lync is closely integrated with Microsoft Outlook, it will automatically sync with the Outlook server and retrieve your schedules. Note that you can only view today’s schedule though, not yesterday’s and not tomorrow’s. Scroll up and down to see what’s going on today and which meetings are you invited to. If you want to join an active meeting, just tap “Join Meeting” and Lync will connect your phone to the meeting conference. You don’t even need to be near your PC desktop to attend a meeting.
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Go to Meetings. Scroll through your schedule. Join a meeting.