Anyone who presents at work
Get from rough notes or a long document to a deck with titles that say the point, sourced numbers, pictures you may use and notes you can say, with the AI assistant your employer allows doing the cutting and drafting. The message, the figures, the sign-off and every answer in the room stay with you.
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9 short lessons · 56 min of audio · a final exam and a course certificate
Use an AI assistant to get from a messy page of notes or a long document to a deck you can stand behind, with titles that say the point, numbers with a source, pictures you may use, notes you can say and the hard questions heard in advance, while the message, the figures and every answer in the room stay yours.
the room, the ask and one sentence before any slide, titles that say the point, and the lines of a long document that must survive word for word: One sentence before any slide; The title says the point; The long document, cut to a deck
every number traced to its source, every picture with a reason you may use it, and a deck that works for someone who cannot see it or hear you: Every number has a source; Pictures you are allowed to use; Accessible to people you have not met
notes in your own words, the hardest fair questions heard in private first, and the prep page you open every time a deck is due: Notes you can actually say; The hardest question in the room; The prep page
One prep page in your work notes, opened every time a deck is due: who is in the room and the sentence you want them to leave with, titles read alone, a source under every number, where each picture came from, the access checks, notes in your own words, and the hard questions from rehearsal. It grows by a line after every talk.
The certificate names that artefact and the tools you used — not a title. It carries a code anyone can check: verify a certificate.
The opening of lesson one, exactly as it plays inside — and the exercise that comes with it, which you can do right now without an account.
Somewhere on your calendar there is a deck. A team update, a pitch for a change, a training session, a review. You have notes, a few figures and a slot on someone's agenda. And many of us start by making a title slide.
You will meet Tomás all through this course. He leads a customer service team at a regional water utility: the people who answer calls about bills, leaks and planned work on the pipes. He presents a regular service update to his manager, Helen, the head of customer service. He trains new hires. Now and then he pitches a change to the leadership team, and sometimes he speaks at a community meeting about work on local streets. For his next update, his notes are a page of fragments.
Here is the trap. Ask an assistant to "make a presentation from these notes" and you may get something shaped like a deck: an agenda, a background slide, a slide per heading in your notes, a closing slide that says thank you. It may also add context you never gave it, such as a line about what customers expect these days, written as if someone had checked it. It looks finished, so it is easy to skip the question of what the deck is for.
Before anything looks like a slide, write three things yourself: who is in the room, what you need from them, and the one sentence you want them to leave with.
Who is in the room tells you what they already know. What you need might be a decision, an approval, a change in how people work, or that they know something. And the one sentence is your point. For Tomás it is: "Some customers who are waiting for a callback call us again before it comes, and I'd like to test a different way of scheduling callbacks." If he cannot write that sentence, no slide will write it for him.
Try it now · Write room, ask and sentence before any slide
Where:Your approved work assistant, after three lines of your own
Here are my notes for my update to [THE HEAD OF CUSTOMER SERVICE]. My point is this sentence, and I am asking [HER TO APPROVE A SMALL TEST]. Using only these notes, suggest two different orders I could tell it in, say what each order puts first, and list anything in my notes that does not support the point. [YOUR ONE SENTENCE.] [PASTE YOUR NOTES, WITH ANYTHING ABOUT INDIVIDUAL CUSTOMERS TAKEN OUT.]
The rest of the catalogue is there when you need it — but you do not have to choose anything today. One course, one short lesson at a time, one page at the end.
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