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confident-speaking

Structures presentations, verbal pitches, and talking points using the WHAT-SO WHAT-NOW WHAT framework. Use when user mentions 'presentation,' 'speaking,' 'pitch,' 'talking points,' or 'difficult conversation.'

  • Area: People
  • Category: human resources
  • Level: beginner
  • Input: conversation
  • Output: document
  • Setup: none
  • Roles: CEO / Founder

Structures presentations, verbal pitches, and talking points using the WHAT-SO WHAT-NOW WHAT framework.

How you ask

  • “Structure a presentation using WHAT-SO WHAT-NOW WHAT”
  • “Help me prepare talking points for a difficult conversation”
  • “Create a verbal pitch for our product in 60 seconds”
  • “Structure my keynote presentation for the conference”

Inputs

  • request — The talk or pitch to structure, including topic and occasion.
  • audience — Who is in the room and what decision authority they hold, so the hook and evidence are aimed at them.
  • desired-action — The one thing the audience should do after the close; becomes the call to action.
  • time-box — Length of the speaking slot. Sections are cut to fit this rather than the outline being padded out.
  • evidence — Strongest available data point, example, or story. Absent, the route returns a prep-gap list instead of a finished outline.
  • scope — company, or a client-id under {company.clients}/ — a string with one reserved value, not a closed set
  • request — The update to compress and the forum it is delivered in.
  • audience — The executive or team receiving the update, used to set what can be assumed and what must be stated.
  • core-message — The single point that survives if everything else is cut; becomes the headline.
  • ask — What the listener has to decide, approve, or unblock.
  • time-box — Maximum speaking time. Points are cut to fit rather than compressed into unreadable density.
  • request — The conversation to prepare and why it is being had now.
  • counterpart — The other party and the working relationship with them, which sets how direct the opening line can be.
  • issue — The behaviour, decision, or conflict being raised, stated as the speaker will state it out loud.
  • desired-outcome — What agreement or change the conversation is trying to reach; becomes the closing next step.
  • likely-objections — Pushback the counterpart is expected to give. Absent, the route infers it and flags the inference.

Outputs

  • Headline, three talking points, one explicit ask, and the questions most likely to come back.
  • Opening line, issue statement, prepared responses to each anticipated objection, and the closing next step.
  • Talk outline running hook, problem, solution, evidence, call to action, with per-section timings and anticipated questions with prepared answers.
  • {scope.knowledge-base.product}/confident-speaking-{YYYY-MM-DD}.md