Practical exercise
Write a three act outline for a five minute talk on something you know
A talk without structure feels like a phone call from a confused uncle. A talk with three acts feels like a film. You will pick a topic from your real life, write a three act outline on a single A5 page, and save it as a reusable template you can fill in for any future talk.
30 min·practitioner
Now try it
Write a three act outline for a five minute talk on something you know
Stretch
Fill the same three act template for two more topics within the same week. Three filled outlines stored in your portfolio means you can give three talks at thirty seconds notice for the rest of your life.
Goes into your portfolio
The photograph three-act-outline-NN of the handwritten page plus a typed version of the same outline in a doc, totalling under sixty words across all three acts.