The Most Unprofessional Moment of My Life

Introduction

• Speaker recounts the most embarrassing and unprofessional moment of their career.
• Situation: Freezing during an investment strategy presentation in front of team and managing director.
• Result: Panicked and rambled nonsensically.

Lessons Learned

Organize Your Thoughts with Structure

• Quote: Bob Iger - "Your strategy is only as good as you articulate it."
• Importance: Ensuring thoughts are logically structured to communicate effectively.

Prioritize Your Thoughts Through Filters

• Essential to decide what to include and exclude from your communication.
• Avoid overwhelming the audience with too much information.

Summarize Into Easily Recallable Chunks

• Create preformulated, recallable chunks of information to use under pressure.

Using Frameworks

• Frameworks help in organizing, prioritizing, and summarizing thoughts.
• Speaker recommends several frameworks and will provide resources below the video.
• Example Framework: One-Two-Three Framework
  • One: The one thing you need to communicate.
  • Two: Two types of the main subject.
  • Three: Three steps or components related to the subject.

Practical Exercise

• Exercise involves using a deck of over 100 topics and forming structured responses within 30 seconds.
• Example: Topic: ChatGPT
  • One: Importance of articulate questioning.
  • Two: Types of answers: vague vs. specific.
  • Three: Steps for better answers: watch framework videos, pick a framework, structure the prompt.

Benefits of Practice

• Helps identify your circles of competence.
• Engages different parts of the brain, reducing fight or flight response.
• Through practice, rewires the brain to prioritize, organize, and summarize effectively.

Conclusion

• Frameworks enable better articulation and access to prepackaged ideas.
• Speaker provides links to more resources and hands-on practice opportunities.