So here are some tips on how to outline your speech.

首先你要準備簡報大綱，而準備簡報大綱有幾個祕訣。

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

良心建議各位初學者，絕對不要做 58 頁、落落長的 PPT 投影片。

That's too much to even start from.

那長到讓你根本無從說起。

What you should do is brainstorm on every single distinct idea or message you have⏤maybe you have 20 or 30.

你要做的是先腦力激盪，把冒出來的每一個獨特想法和訊息記錄下來，也許文思泉湧的你會有 20 、30 個想法。

But then, you've got to be a harsh editor; you've got to really figure out what are literally just your top five ideas.

但之後，你就要變身為最嚴苛的編輯，大刀闊斧、去蕪存菁，從眾多想法當中挑出最好的五個重點。

Get rid of the others.

其他的一律放棄！

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

經一番篩選，現在你的簡報大綱上有了五個重點。

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

接著，在每一個重點下加一段故事，讓你的重點變得更戲劇化。

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.

加完故事，再補充其他的要點在下面，像是重要的事實和數據，因為你在台上可能會忘記，所以把這些東西都放進你的簡報大綱裡。

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，可以在每一頁幻燈片下面寫一些東西來提醒自己這一頁在講什麼，以更流暢地用口頭鋪陳方式帶出下一頁的資訊。

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

這樣一來，你可以完全掌控簡報的節奏，而不是被 PowerPoint 主導。

So what do you end up with?

所以，演講簡報要具備哪些內容呢？

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、五個大重點和在各重點下分別列點補充說明，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，引導你完成整場簡報。