Communicating Concisely

I learn this in a training course that had a segment on "Communicating Concisely"... let's see if this could be applied to a real life setting...

So here's what you do... If you ever have to communicate anything to anyone... start by first thinking of a headline.

Under that headline decide how many supporting points are attached to that topic. (try not to exceed 3-4 or you'll just lose your audience's attention)

For each supporting point you can then address 'sub-supporting' items.

So for example, if you're discussing where to go for lunch...

"Guys, it's almost lunchtime and I suggest we go to Central Burger for lunch" (headline)

"There's 3 reasons we should go there and that's Cost, Exercise and Milkshakes" (set up the supporting points)

(Now for the Sub-supports to each Supporting point)
For Cost, this is a great place because everything is less than $5 bucks or so.

For Exercise, it's in walking distance so we get good exercise.

For Milkshakes... well they just have pretty good Milkshakes and that alone is reason to go."

At that point the group shrugs off your odd outburst and proceeds to lunch at Quizno's instead.