Again, we're making progress. You know your topic, you know what you want the audience to do. You've got your message points stories for each. And now you've got visuals for each one. But some of you're thinking, Oh, timeout, you missed something I'm lost here. How am I going to know what to say?
If I'm giving a formal PowerPoint presentation, especially, I'm not gonna remember what to say. I've got to type up all my notes, all my bullet points and put them on slide so I can be reading to the audience. And that way, I'll know what to say. Right. Let me ask you a question. How often do you like it when someone reads to you?
Well, that's different. I guess when I've asked that question for years of people. Everybody always says the same thing. I hate it when people read to me, it's boring. They should have just emailed us the document. So you Don't like it when someone else reads to you then don't read to them.
But still, that doesn't solve our problem. How are you going to know what to say in your presentation? Especially if it's more than a few minutes long, and it's more than one point? How are you going to remember what to say? My advice. cheat.
I talked about it right at the beginning of this course, use a cheat sheet. Here's everything I could possibly say, for a one hour speech, large font, a single sheet of paper. There's a section later on in this course of how to use notes correctly and efficiently. But that's the basic right there. Have it on one sheet of paper, large font. That way if you don't know what to say next, you don't have to go through a whole bunch of screens and read with everyone else.
Just glance down at your sheet people won't even notice you'll have a roadmap old times and it's just for you. So that's what I want you to do now and this time I really do want you to use paper. I love technology. I've every kind of tablet iPad laptop computer, I love technology. This has never betrayed me this has never asked for electricity, different formats, different chords. It works perfectly every time.
So I'm asking you to come up with a single sheet of notes for your presentation now