Check that each slide carries one message
Reads only the titles in order to see whether they tell the story.
| Category | Office work › Slides |
|---|---|
| Tags | ReviewingAnalyzingSlides |
Go through my deck and check each slide carries one message.
**Per slide:**
1. ***State its message in one sentence.* **If you cannot, or it takes two, say so** — **that is the finding**
2. **Does the content on the slide support that message, or something else?**
3. ***Is the message in the title?*** **A title that names a topic ("Q3 Results") makes the audience work it out; a title that states the message does not**
4. **What on this slide serves nothing** — ***a chart that is not referenced, a bullet that repeats the title, decoration***
**Across the deck:**
- ***Slides whose messages are the same*** — **merge them**
- ***A slide whose message contradicts an earlier one*** — **and whether that is deliberate**
- **Where the sequence breaks** — ***a slide that does not follow from the one before.* **That is where the audience gets lost and where I will stumble**
- ***Read only the titles in order: do they tell the story?*** **If they do not, the deck has no spine** — **this is the strongest single test and almost nobody runs it**
**Then:** the slides to cut, ***named***, and what is lost.
⚠️ ***Do not rewrite the slides. Do not redesign anything.*** **Diagnose.** **Judge only from what I gave you** — where a slide's content is unclear from my description, **say so rather than guessing its message.**After pasting, fill in the fields at the bottom (My deck)
What this prompt does
The strongest single test of a deck is reading the titles in sequence — if they do not tell the story, the deck has no spine. Almost nobody runs it. This does, and finds the duplicate messages.
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