Week 6 · spine
Power Skill: Presentations & Content
Client-ready decks and content from your own material — story first, formatting trivial.
The presentations & content power skill. Most people lose hours fighting slide software; the leverage is getting the story and content right fast, then formatting is trivial. Everyone builds the Deck Builder Skill, then applies it per role (pitch / campaign / client summary / SOP).
The wow: source material turned into a client-ready deck with speaker notes, as an Artifact, in minutes. The D’s are Description (telling the story clearly) and Discernment (judging what earns a slide).
Learner goals
- Build the Deck Builder Skill: spine, slide content, speaker notes.
- Anchor every deck to one decision; make headlines claims, not labels.
- Turn a real report/transcript/notes into a client-ready deck as an Artifact.
- Apply presentations & content through your role lens.
What you set up live
- Build the Deck Builder Skill from the starter.
- Feed it real source material and generate a deck Artifact.
- Produce your role-specific deliverable.
Run-of-show · 180 min
The session timeline. The amber row is where the wow lands.
| Time | Segment | Mode |
|---|---|---|
| 0:00 · 12m | Welcome + the presentations power skill | Talk |
| 0:12 · 35m | Build-along: the Deck Builder Skill (+ the design plugin) | Build-along |
| 0:47 · 10m | Break | Break |
| 0:57 · 35m | Build-along: report/transcript → client-ready deck, in your voice ✦ wow | Build-along |
| 1:32 · 30m | Bonus: turn a messy process into a diagram (Excalidraw MCP) | Screen-share |
| 2:02 · 43m | Role-lens breakout: your deliverable | Breakout |
| 2:45 · 15m | Project handoff (Description + Discernment) | Talk |
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