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subtitle-810-9360-1"Let's move on to today's material."
subtitle-10620-15270-2"So the first thing we want to talk about is the evidence toolkit."
subtitle-15720-23600-3"The evidence toolkit. I mentioned this in previous lessons and when we make the actual"
subtitle-23600-30140-4"pitch in our meeting with our partner, the pitch needs to be brief and focused on the"
subtitle-30140-32420-5"core, focused on the Partnership Value Proposal."
subtitle-33410-34490-6"Here's the benefit to you."
subtitle-34520-36890-7"Here's the benefit to us. Here's what we suggest to do."
subtitle-36920-38570-8"Here's what we suggest you do."
subtitle-38720-41810-9"What do you think? I mean, that's an elevator pitch."
subtitle-42080-46910-10"Our actual pitch could be with graphs and videos and things, but it still should stick"
subtitle-46910-50360-11"to the core. We don't want to distract our partner with too much."
subtitle-50360-54110-12"We want them to focus on "here's what we're proposing to do together"."
subtitle-55310-61340-13"But while we make the pitch or after we're done making the pitch, the partner may have"
subtitle-61340-63470-14"any number of questions rise up."
subtitle-63680-71020-15"And we need to be prepared; the partner may be interested in statistics of all kinds."
subtitle-71030-74540-16"The partner may want to know "what other partners have you worked with?"
subtitle-75020-78020-17"Where is this model already working?"
subtitle-78020-79190-18"Where can I see it working?"
subtitle-79220-81380-19"Is anyone else in our country doing it?"
subtitle-81410-86840-20"Is anyone else in our sector doing it right?" let's say I'm the National Library of"
subtitle-86840-91720-21"Nigeria. "Have you ever worked with any other national library?" Well, yes, we have,"
subtitle-91730-96570-22"but we need to have those examples ready so that we can say yes, we have."
subtitle-96590-97970-23"Here are three examples."
subtitle-98780-103250-24"It makes a bad impression if we go: "I think ..."
subtitle-103420-105930-25"I think there are some national libraries that work with Wikipedia."
subtitle-105950-107270-26"I'm not sure. Let's look it up."
subtitle-107270-112900-27"Let's Google." These are things we should be ready with when we come to that meeting,"
subtitle-112900-114730-28"ideally."
subtitle-114730-116870-29"They might want to see short videos."
subtitle-116870-120620-30"They might have questions about roles and responsibilities, who does what, etc.."
subtitle-120830-126620-31"All of these are things that we need to have prepared, even if we don't present them from"
subtitle-126620-128930-32"the outset as part of our pitch."
subtitle-129410-131780-33"So this is what I call "the evidence toolkit"."
subtitle-133790-140270-34"And like I said, we don't pack all of this already into our proactive pitch"
subtitle-140270-145490-35"presentation, but we can mention, just like we mentioned in some of these elevator"
subtitle-145490-149180-36"pitches that you heard, we can mention, hey, we have statistics."
subtitle-149180-150470-37"We're happy to share them if you're interested."
subtitle-152180-158000-38"Leave these little bits of string for the partner to maybe tug on and pull and say, "Oh"
subtitle-158000-162110-39"yeah, this is interesting!" or show them some doors, and they can decide which door to"
subtitle-162110-165500-40"open, if you'll pardon my funny metaphor."
subtitle-166010-172250-41"So we need to have this with us, ready to present, but separate from the main pitch."
subtitle-172250-177650-42"You don't want your pitch presentation to have 200 slides and you're constantly kind of"
subtitle-177650-179300-43"skipping things and going over."
subtitle-179540-186200-44"You want to have it somehow separate, maybe in a different presentation, maybe several"
subtitle-186200-187310-45"different presentations."
subtitle-187310-191600-46"But you want to have that material ready, ready to present right then during that"
subtitle-191600-193250-47"meeting, but separately."
subtitle-195800-201560-48"And one reason we need all that extra evidence toolkit is that, for example, our"
subtitle-201560-203920-49"partner research may be wrong."
subtitle-204170-208970-50"Maybe we think this argument will definitely convince them, this is what they care about"
subtitle-208970-212960-51"the most. And all of our pitch is focused on whatever we found."
subtitle-212960-218180-52"Let's say the the "encourage reading" thing in Nigeria that we saw two weeks ago."
subtitle-218420-226310-53"But what if we learn that actually this "encouraging reading" thing, that was last"
subtitle-226310-230930-54"year's project, and now we have a different project and we no longer care about"
subtitle-230930-233450-55"encouraging reading. Maybe that's the case."
subtitle-233450-239780-56"Suddenly our main selling point, our main convincing argument is irrelevant."
subtitle-239780-241070-57"Turns out to be irrelevant."
subtitle-241070-246090-58"We should be ready with other reasons why it might be worthwhile to work with us."
subtitle-246090-252590-59"Again, all this extra material is coming from our evidence toolkit and I call it a toolkit"
subtitle-252590-258320-60"rather than an extra presentation because it needs to be modular and organized so that you"
subtitle-258320-261320-61"can easily pull out the relevant bit."
subtitle-262160-267440-62"Not an extra 200 slides, but the relevant three slides or the relevant piece of"
subtitle-267440-274040-63"statistics. So do whatever works for you: have 20 word documents, or several"
subtitle-274040-278900-64"presentations, or gif files, whatever, but you need to somehow have these things very"
subtitle-278900-282350-65"organized so that you can pull them out as necessary."