From the course: Preparing for Successful Communication
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Organize your ideas
From the course: Preparing for Successful Communication
Organize your ideas
- I'll always be grateful to my high school debate coach for drumming into my head your expertise is perceived by the organization of your thoughts. In other words, we can know what we're talking about, but if we're all over the map, people will conclude we don't know what we're talking about. If people can't follow our ideas, they don't understand our ideas, trust our ideas, or act on our ideas because they don't make sense. So let's focus on how to organize your ideas so they're easy to follow and understand. And the best way to do that is to number them. For example, we're gonna talk about three steps to organizing your ideas. Did you notice as soon as I mentioned a number your brain breathed a sigh of relief? You thought good, she's distilled her information into a step by step process I can actually follow. So here are those three steps to organizing your ideas. Step one, preselect a precise number of ideas to cover in your allotted time. In a full day training, you can cover up…
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