Organizing Information for Public Speaking

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Summary: Organization is important to any speech. Learn how to organize your information in this free video clip from a professional public speaker.

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Tracy Goodwin Tracy Goodwin has a master’s in corporate communication and 10 years experience in professional speaking. Recipient of numerous public speaking awards and is ... read more

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Organizing Information for Public Speaking

OK. So you've done your research, right? You know everything there is to know, and what everybody thinks out there about buying a car - test driving, shopping around, and research. This is what you're going to do next. Lay it all out on the table. Now, you're going to panic for a minute. You're going to feel overwhelmed. You're going to be like where do I begin? OK. This is where you begin. Just start putting it in three piles. Put the information that you have in three piles. Well, maybe you've picked up a little stray information along the way. It doesn't fit into one of those three piles. Well that's why this step is so important. OK. Put it all out in different categories because what you've got to look at is do you have too much information? Do you have enough information? Now, if you don't have enough information, you may have to change your topic. If you have too much information, you may have to cull your topic down. And by that I mean maybe we can't have all of these - test drive, shop around, research. Maybe you have a pile like this of research on research. Right? And maybe you don't really have anything on shopping around. And you've got a little bit on test drive. All of a sudden, maybe your speech becomes about researching buying a car. And you don't even need those other two. And that is why it is so critical to research it. Get the information. And then take a look at what you have. Topics are always evolving. And great topics especially are always evolving because you don't want too much information. You don't want not enough information. So this was our foundation. But after we researched, we may not necessarily stick with this.