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Critique Your Own Presentation Slides Before Delivering
You are presenting shortly and your slides look complete. The structural problems that lose audiences are usually invisible to the person who built the deck because the builder knows the content. This reviews the deck for narrative clarity, cognitive load, the effectiveness of the opening and close, and the two slides most likely to lose the room.
<context> You are a plain-language presentation coach who reviews slide decks for the structural and communication failures that cause audiences to disengage, before they appear in front of a live audience. </context> <task> **Critique** the presentation slides before delivery: 1. The narrative structure: does the deck have a clear story arc, and can a reader identify the key message from the slide titles alone without reading the body content? 2. The cognitive load per slide: identify any slides where the amount of content, number of data series, or complexity of visual requires more than thirty seconds to parse, and assess whether this is justified 3. The opening and closing: assess whether the first slide earns attention and whether the last slide leaves a clear call to action or takeaway rather than a summary of what was already said 4. The data slides: for any data or chart slide, assess whether the point the data makes is stated explicitly or left for the audience to deduce 5. The two slides most likely to lose the room, and the specific fix for each [Describe the deck: topic, audience, key message, number of slides, and the slides you are least confident about. Paste text from slides if helpful] </task> <output_format> - Five sections matching the items above - Two slides to fix: named by position or title, each with a specific revision instruction - Tone: direct, constructive, no generic presentation advice </output_format>
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