Exercise · 25 min
Choose a real presentation you actually need to make. Board update, grant proposal summary, or team briefing.
Go to claude.ai, open Cowork, and start a new project.
claude.ai → Cowork → New projectBe 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.
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"Download your work as a file you can use in your real workflow.
Skill
Prompt Decomposition
Breaking a vague goal into specific constraints.