Haritosh Srivastav explains how to prep a talk: start by identifying one primary goal. Know what you want your audience to feel, do, or think. That single goal shapes your structure, transitions, and stories.
One basic question you should always ask yourself before you start presenting or speaking. Now, that one question that you should always ask is, what is the primary goal of your speaking? Now, if your goal are 100 things, then probably you do not have the clarity. But in general, you should be very clear as to what the audience should feel, what the audience should do, what the audience should think after you have done speaking. Once you have clarity of that, making the structure of your talk, having the transition, having the right story becomes much easier. So next time whenever you get a chance to speak, think about that one question that you really need to answer.
