What you'll learn
- ✦Choose a pitch-deck or board-deck shape to match the room you are presenting to
- ✦Choose the right chart type for a comparison, and simplify a messy chart to one message
- ✦Show a trend or a before-and-after with an honest chart: a zero baseline and one message
- ✦Build a deck toward one specific, concrete ask
- ✦Pre-empt the obvious objection with a slide, and prepare a backup slide for hard questions
- ✦Size and prepare a deck for an online room: readable on a small shared screen, and a send-ahead or leave-behind version
- ✦Write an executive summary slide that leads with the recommendation
- ✦Cut a deck down to a time limit, and get useful, specific feedback on a draft before sending it
Certification projects
Build 3 projects to earn your certificate
Hands-on work that proves you can apply what you learned — part of the certificate requirements.
Syllabus
Module 1 · 21m
Persuasive Deck Shapes Free
What you'll be able to do
- Can shape a deck to persuade someone new, fast, using the pitch-deck order
- Can shape a deck to report to people who already know the business, leading with numbers and the decision
- Can decide whether a room needs a pitch deck or a board deck, and adjust the slides, not just the talk
Module 2 · 21m
Making the Case With Data Locked
What you'll be able to do
- Can choose the chart type that matches the comparison being made
- Can simplify a data-heavy chart down to the one message it needs to prove
- Can build an honest trend or before-and-after chart with a zero baseline
Module 3 · 21m
The Ask and the Pushback Locked
What you'll be able to do
- Can build a deck so every slide leads toward one specific, concrete ask
- Can place a slide that names and answers the obvious objection before the room raises it
- Can prepare a backup slide that answers a hard question without bloating the main deck
Module 4 · 21m
Presenting Decks Online Locked
What you'll be able to do
- Can resize a deck's text and elements so they read clearly on a small shared screen
- Can prepare a deck file and screen before a call so the screen-share starts cleanly
- Can prepare a send-ahead or leave-behind version of a deck that makes sense on its own
Module 5 · 21m
Polishing the Pitch Locked
What you'll be able to do
- Can write an executive summary slide that leads with the recommendation, not a table of contents
- Can cut a deck's content down to fit a time limit, without just talking faster
- Can ask a specific question that gets useful feedback on a draft deck, and revise from it
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