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Exercise · 25 min

Build Your Presentation

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Pick your topic

Choose a real presentation you actually need to make. Board update, grant proposal summary, or team briefing.

Open Cowork

Go to claude.ai, open Cowork, and start a new project.

claude.ai → Cowork → New project

Craft your first prompt

Be specific about what you want. Vague prompts give vague results.

Tip

✗Make me a presentation

✓Create a 5-slide board update on Q2 program outcomes for our funders. Include: key metrics, one success story, budget vs actual, and next quarter goals.

Iterate at least twice

Don't accept the first draft. Push back, refine, add constraints.

"Make the data slide more visual"
"Add speaker notes for each slide"
"Simplify the budget table"

Export to PowerPoint or Slides

Download your work as a file you can use in your real workflow.

Skill

Prompt Decomposition

Breaking a vague goal into specific constraints.