Content
Beginner
15 min
Presentations — building the argument before building the slides
The problem
You build 24 slides over two days. In the meeting you reach slide 9 before someone asks a question that the whole deck was supposed to answer. You never get to slide 18, which contained the actual recommendation.
The workflow
1Define the decision
2Write one sentence per slide
3Read it aloud
4Stress-test the argument
5Build the slides
6Write message titles
7Add a standalone summary
★Rehearse
What you need
Decision: whether to approve ₹40 lakh for a Hyderabad warehouse. Audience: three directors, financially literate, do not know the delivery data.
The tool
Any assistant
The prompt
Subscribers. The full prompt is part of the SMEMinds AI Playbook. See plans.
What comes back
1. THE ARGUMENT AS SENTENCES 1.
Verify before you use it
Human review required. Check every line below before this leaves your screen.
- Compute the threshold in sentence 8 before building any slide. It is what makes this a deferral rather than a rejection.
- Give slide 6 its own slide. Pre-empting the strongest objection early is worth more than any other structural choice here.
- Confirm the conversion figures are computed correctly, since the entire argument rests on a 0.3-point difference.
- Write the one-page summary separately. Do not solve the read-versus-presented problem by adding text to slides.