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[How to prepare notecards for a speech - public speaking training]
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Here's some tips on how to outline your speech.
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For starters, you don't want to just write and write and write 58 pages of PowerPoint.
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That's too much to even start from.
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What you should do is brainstorm on every single distinct idea or message you have.
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Maybe you have 20 or 30, but then you've got to be a harsh editor.
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You've got to really figure out what are literally just your top five ideas.
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Get rid of the others.
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So you've got five bullet points on your outline.
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Next, underneath each one, you've got a story that dramatizes this particular point.
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If you've got it, put another point underneath it, a fact, a number that's really important that you might not remember, put that.
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And finally, under each message point, if you have a PowerPoint slide, you need something that tells you what the slide is so you can talk about it before the slide comes up.
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That way you're in charge, not the PowerPoint.
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So what do you end up with?
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A simple outline, five big points and a few bullet points underneath each one to remind you of the story, an example or fact, and the visual.
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Do that, and you'll have a great, simple, lean, efficient, one-page outline to guide you through your whole presentation.