🛠️ Workshop slide master

💡 Use Case

• Nine layouts and one rule: one idea per slide. Made in the last hour of Thursday 20 March, the day auto-triage came back, for 📂 Pricing workshop for Brightwater Studio.
• The nine: title, one sentence, one number, one chart, one question for the room, exercise instructions, two options side by side, a quotation from the room, and a blank.
• Used on 11 April for 🤝 Brightwater Studio - pricing workshop and again on 21 November for the metrics workshop, with the content changed and not one layout added.
• The blank is the one I use most. It means look at each other now.

⚖️ Pros & Cons

Pros

• Nine is few enough that preparing is writing, not arranging. Five evenings went on what to say.
• One question for the room has a different background, so people know before reading it that it is their turn.
• Black on off-white, large enough for the back row of a room with twelve chairs.

Cons

• One idea per slide makes a long deck. April was 61 slides for three and a half hours, and Arvid Lund asked if I was sure.
• No layout for a table. On purpose, and I have regretted it once.
• It does not travel well as a hand-out. The two-page summary exists because of that.

🔄 Alternatives

• No slides: a flip chart and a pen. Honest, and my handwriting is not.
• The work template, which has a footer, a logo and the wrong company.