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Level Advanced · Deck Presentation Structure
Deck outline: one decision per slide
Before any layout, decide what each slide asks the audience to do.
Prompt
Outline a {{duration}}-minute presentation for {{audience}}, with the goal of {{goal}}.
Context: {{context}}
What I need them to agree to: {{ask}}
Requirements:
1. Start with a one-line throughline (the whole talk is this one thing); expand only after I confirm.
2. Slide-by-slide: a title that is a conclusion (not a noun phrase), one chart or number for that slide, and one sentence to say out loud.
3. Keep within {{slides}} slides; the first two must be 'the problem now' and 'the cost of not fixing it'.
4. Mark the slide most likely to be challenged and pre-write one response.
5. Add a final page ranking which slides to cut first.What to state before it starts
Leave these unsaid and the model fills them with an assumption. Most 'wrong answers' start here.
- {{duration}}: 10 / 20 / 45 minutes; drives slide count
- {{audience}}: who is in the room and what they care about
- {{goal}}: approve budget / align / ask for headcount
- {{ask}}: one specific sentence
- {{slides}}: roughly one per minute works
Go through each of these
Where this kind of work most often goes wrong. Already in the prompt, so you do not have to remember it.
- Titles must be conclusions; 'current situation' says nothing.
- The likely-challenge slide is where this outline saves the most time.