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How to plan: Key points and timing

How to plan: Key points and timing

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How to plan: Key points and timing

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- So the first thing to plan with your talk is what is the one central message of your talk? So let's say for example that you're going to do a talk about your trip to Australia. My trip to Australia is not a central message. Your message has got to be Australia is better than you thought, or Australia is not what you expect, or don't go to Australia or something like that. But it has to be a really clear message. If it's just all about Australia that's no good. Now sometimes your one clear message isn't clear until you've actually planned the talk, and then when you've planned everything you're going to say you can then look at it and think well, what is this really adding up to? What I'm realizing as I plan my talk about Australia, is that Australia was really different to what I expected and therefore that's my message. Now it's really key to decide what your message is because everything's hung around that. So you then say right I'm going to talk to you about why Australia was…

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