Building an Ethical Cheat Sheet Just for You

• 00:04 Okay, I've been easy on you so far I haven't asked you to do a lot.
• 00:08 Now it's time to put some of these things together.
• 00:10 It's time to create your own cheat sheet for your speech, for your presentation.
• 00:17 I never speak off the top of the head.
• 00:18 Let me get to tell you a title secret, I have a horrible memory.
• 00:22 I can never remember what my next point is or what the next slide is, but guess what?
• 00:28 I don't have to, I cheat.
• 00:31 Simple sheet of paper.
• 00:33 You heard me talk about this in the first video.
• 00:37 Amazingly simple tool, it costs five cents or less.
• 00:42 And yet, most people don't do it.
• 00:45 They feel this need to well they work hard and try to remember and memorize, or
• 00:49 let me put all the notes on the PowerPoint slide, which is the worst thing.
• 00:55 Now or let me wing it, they don't wing it.
• 00:58 Have a plan and stick to it.
• 01:00 This is a plan.
• 01:02 So what I want you to do is to really isolate your five main ideas,
• 01:07 write them down, type them up.
• 01:10 And then a word or two for your main examples,
• 01:14 a couple of words to remind you for the stories.
• 01:18 Do you have a particular statistic or fact or number you're afraid you'll forget,
• 01:22 put that down, but it really should be as tight and as.
• 01:26 This is an hour long keynote speech.
• 01:29 These are all the notes that I need.
• 01:31 So that's what I want you to do now.
• 01:34 This is frankly a thousand times easier than writing out a speech word for word.
• 01:40 For most people in most situations you are far better off having this as
• 01:45 the starting point and the final thing you do, rather than writing out
• 01:50 the whole speech trying to memorize it, trying to tweak every little word.
• 01:57 If you are a president of a country or a major finance minister and any one wrong
• 02:02 word can cause a scandal, or destroy businesses, or an economy, or start a war.
• 02:07 Well, yes.
• 02:09 Then it makes sense to write out every single word and have it vetted and
• 02:14 looked at, but for most people 99.99% of the word.
• 02:20 The big problem is not that we get one word wrong.
• 02:23 The big problem for
• 02:24 most of us is that nobody remembers anything we said because we were boring.
• 02:30 We didn't deliver it in a compelling, captivating, interesting, engaging way.
• 02:35 Having notes on a single sheet of paper will liberate you.
• 02:39 Will make you feel so much more comfortable, more relaxed when you
• 02:43 are speaking, and it will create a better experience for your audience.
• 02:49 Now, I recommend you make it in large font.
• 02:53 This font is large enough for me to read so I don't have to sort of fumble
• 02:58 around in the middle of a presentation and put on my glasses and do all this.
• 03:04 Large font, bold it, and do not use the whole Roman numeral one little a,
• 03:09 it's too hard when you're standing up speaking to people to try to
• 03:14 look at different levels of indentation.
• 03:17 I just have everything all far left indentation and number it, that way
• 03:22 it's much easier for the eye to look down, see where you were, see where you are.
• 03:28 You can have one that tells you what every slide is.
• 03:32 Now, if you find yourself needing more than a single sheet of paper,
• 03:36 the problem is not that you need another sheet of paper.
• 03:40 The problem is you haven't really narrowed your messages down enough.
• 03:45 So that's a good check, right there.
• 03:48 If you can't narrow it down to a single sheet of paper with large font,
• 03:52 don't narrow it down but
• 03:53 have 4 point font where you've got 10,000 words on a single sheet, that's cheating.
• 03:59 You've got to be able to use this piece of paper and
• 04:02 to use it in the way you can, when you're standing and speaking.
• 04:07 You're standing and speaking you don't want to hold your notes,
• 04:11 because that takes you out of the moment of speaking with people.
• 04:16 If you have your notes down on a table, or a chair,
• 04:19 sometimes even the floor, and you continue to move your hands,
• 04:23 walk around, the audience won't even know you're using notes.
• 04:28 And they will perceive you as smarter,
• 04:31 more competent, more intelligent, more capable.
• 04:36 And it's right here for us, and most people never do it.
• 04:39 So that is your assignment right now.
• 04:41 Come up with a one page for notes and please don't use your iPad.
• 04:48 It looks ridiculous to hold a big piece of technology when you're up speaking.
• 04:54 I am not trying to kill all the trees in the world but
• 04:56 one sheet of paper won't hurt.
• 04:58 I'm not anti-technology, but
• 05:01 this little thing has never asked for more battery power.
• 05:05 It's never asked for compatibility.
• 05:08 It's never gone on the frits, it's never needed another wire,
• 05:13 good old paper has never let me down.
• 05:16 This is also great if you are using PowerPoint and
• 05:19 all of a sudden the PowerPoint doesn't work.
• 05:22 You don't care because you have your notes.
• 05:25 So that's the assignment.
• 05:27 Create your one page notes for your presentation right now.

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