Here's some tips on how to outline your speech.

寫演講的大綱有幾個祕訣。

For starters, you don't want to just write and write and write 58 pages of PowerPoint.

對初學者來說，你不會想要做厚厚一疊 58 頁的 PowerPoint。

That's too much to even start from.

那簡直多到不知該從何說起了。

What you should do is brainstorm on every single distinct idea or message you have.

你要做的應該是，腦力激盪現有的每個獨特的想法和訊息。

Maybe you have 20 or 30, but then you've got to be a harsh editor.

也許你有 20 、30 個想法，但接下來你要搖身一變，變成一名嚴苛的編輯。

You've got to really figure out what are literally just your top five ideas.

你要弄清楚什麼才是真正最重要的前五名。

Get rid of the others.

放棄其他的想法。

So you've got five bullet points on your outline.

所以現在你手上已經有大綱上的五個大重點了。

Next, underneath each one, you've got a story that dramatizes this particular point.

接著，每一個重點下面都要有一個故事，戲劇化這個特點。

If you've got it, put another point underneath it, a fact, a number that's really important that you might not remember, put that.

如果你已經做到了，補充其他的要點在下面，像是事實和數據都是很重要的，你在台上可能會記不得，所以把那個放進你的簡報裡。

And finally, under each message point, if you have a PowerPoint slide, you need something that tells you what the slide is so you can talk about it before the slide comes up.

最後，如果你打算用 PowerPoint 來做簡報，在每個訊息要點下面，你需要一些東西來提醒自己這一頁在講什麼，所以在翻頁前，你可以先說些什麼帶出下一頁。

That way you're in charge, not the PowerPoint.

這個東西你要自己掌控，而不是靠 PowerPoint。

So what do you end up with?

所以，要具備哪些內容呢？

A simple outline, five big points and a few bullet points underneath each one to remind you of the story, an example or fact, and the visual.

一個簡要的大綱、五個大重點和下面附屬的一些小要點，提醒自己故事內容要怎麼說，利用舉例說明或是陳述具體事實，而且要運用視覺元素。

Do that, and you'll have a great, simple, lean, efficient, one-page outline to guide you through your whole presentation.

照著做，你就會有一頁很棒且簡潔有力的大綱，引導你完成整個講稿。