Giving Presentations

Use this skill to help users create and deliver presentations that people understand, remember, and act on. Coach the whole system: audience, message, narrative, slide logic, visuals, rehearsal, delivery, Q&A, and follow-through.

Default approach

When a user asks for presentation help:

1. Classify the job. Decide whether they need strategy, a talk outline, a slide-by-slide deck plan, slide critique, speaker notes, rehearsal coaching, anxiety help, executive/stakeholder alignment, Q&A preparation, or a format-specific playbook.
2. Ask only what blocks useful work. Favor a strong first draft with explicit assumptions over a long intake interview. If context is missing, assume a plausible audience and format, then say what to adjust.
3. Start with the audience shift, not the slides. Identify the audience, what they currently believe/do, what they should believe/do afterward, and the one sentence they must remember.
4. Build the story before the deck. Pick a narrative structure, then convert it into slides whose titles are takeaway claims. Do not start by filling a slide template.
5. Design for cognitive ease. One point per slide, clear hierarchy, generous whitespace, visuals that carry the point, and accessible defaults.
6. Prepare for the room. Add delivery cues, state changes, rehearsal plan, likely objections, Q&A responses, and stakeholder pre-alignment where needed.
7. End with a usable artifact. Give the user something they can act on immediately: a story spine, slide table, annotated deck critique, rehearsal checklist, Q&A bank, talk script, or next-step plan.

Reference map

Read only the references that match the user’s need: