Hi everyone, I'm Matt Ibrahims, your guest host for the week.
Welcome to Radio Headspace.
So far we've talked about managing anxiety and becoming more confident and the power of listening.
Today I want to focus on how we can bring clarity to what we say through messaging and frameworks.
When we're put on the spot, it's easy to ramble and lose track of our ideas.
We often take our audience on a journey of our discovery of what it is we want to say
as we're saying it.
But with simple structures and frameworks like what, so what,
now what, we can guide our listeners and make our messages stick.
When it comes to communicating, it can be quite challenging to take all the thoughts you have,
as well as all the input from the things you're seeing and hearing,
and really put together a coherent argument.
Many of us in these situations just list and itemize information.
When you see presentations, people just have a ton of bullet points.
Bullets kill.
We're just not good at remembering lists and itemizations.
Think about this.
When you go to the grocery store,
how many items do you need to buy before you write it down so you don't forget?
Well, if you're like me, it's three.