Presentation skills · AI
Presentation creation with AI, in the order that works
Your team leaves with a workflow they can repeat on Monday: brief, core message, structure, titles, a pressure test — and only then slides. The thinking gets faster, the argument gets sharper, and the judgement stays with your people.
The seven stages
Outcomes
What your team can do afterwards
Four habits that outlast the session, and that colleagues notice in the next meeting.
Turn a topic into a decision
Every presentation leaves with one sentence someone in the room could disagree with. That single habit changes more meetings than any tool.
Get to a first draft faster
Most of the hours in a deck go into the thinking, and that is exactly where a capable assistant earns its keep.
Catch an invented number
Your team learns exactly where an assistant will produce a confident figure that does not exist, and how to keep evidence in human hands.
Keep every deck on brand
Your corporate identity becomes an input the assistant works from, so ten people generating slides still produce one house style.
The method
Presentation creation with AI works stage by stage
Think first
The brief and the core message are decided before any tool is opened. This is where most of the time is won.
Argue in titles
The slide titles are written before the slides. Read as a list, they either make the argument or reveal the gap.
Test, then build
The storyline is attacked while it is still a list of sentences, which is when a fix is cheap.
The workflow
Seven stages, and what stays human in each
Every stage names what the assistant does well and what your people decide. That line is the whole training.
Brief
Four answers no tool can find for you: why this meeting, who can say yes, what they already accept, and whether they decide on numbers or on story. Your people learn to make the assistant interview them instead of describing the deck to it.
Core message
One complete sentence that states a position and says what is won or lost. “Q3 results” is a label. “Q3 held only because renewals covered the new-business gap” is something a room can act on.
Choose the structure
Two shapes cover almost every business presentation: an arc that moves between what is and what could be, and a pyramid that opens with the answer. The room’s decision style picks the shape, and AI is good at arguing both sides.
Build the storyline
Eight to twelve beats, each with the evidence it would take to earn it. The assistant marks every figure it does not have, so nothing invented ever slips into a board pack.
Action titles
Each beat becomes a title that is a claim, not a label. Read top to bottom, the titles alone make the argument — and the gaps in the argument become audible before a single slide exists.
The critic
Cast the assistant as your toughest audience member and ask where belief breaks. Fixing a storyline costs a sentence. Fixing a finished, animated deck costs an evening.
Design on your CI
Hand over the rules — hex values, fonts, margins, the patterns you use — and the output stays on brand. Your team learns to name the layout they want instead of asking for something that looks nice.
How we run it
Inhouse AI presentation training, worked on your decks
Everyone brings a presentation they actually have to give. We run the seven stages on that material, so what people practise in the room is the thing they finish afterwards.
The session is hands-on throughout. Short input, then your team works — on their own brief, their own titles, their own slides.
Inhouse, onsite
We come to your offices and work on your real decks with your own brand rules in the room.
Inhouse, live online
The same workflow in a live virtual session, with breakout work on each participant’s own material.
Team clinic
A shorter working session for a team with one deck that matters — a board update, a pitch, a kick-off.
Takeaways
What they take home
The prompt card
A one-page card with the working prompts for all seven stages, plus the four rules that keep the output honest.
The title-list habit
The one routine most teams adopt permanently: write the slide titles first and read them as an argument.
A pattern checklist
The slide types that carry business content well, with the rule that makes each one work.
Their own deck, reworked
Everyone brings a real presentation and leaves with it restructured. Nothing theoretical goes home.
A typical session
Four blocks, in the order of the work
A proposal, not a fixed script — we adapt the emphasis in the briefing call, where we also agree what success looks like afterwards.
Before you open PowerPoint®
Brief, core message and the choice of structure — worked live on a presentation each participant actually has to give.
The storyline studio
Building the beats and turning them into action titles, then reading the title list aloud to hear where the argument jumps.
The pressure test
Casting a critic, running it twice, and deciding what belongs on a slide and what belongs in the appendix.
Slides and your identity
Naming layout patterns, feeding the assistant your CI, and rebuilding one weak slide from each participant’s own deck.
Clients
Teams we work with
Questions
Before you book
Do participants need a particular AI tool?
No. The workflow is tool-agnostic and works with any capable assistant. If your organisation has standardised on one, we run the session in that tool so nothing has to be translated afterwards.
Do they need to bring anything?
One real presentation they are not happy with. The work is done on their own material, which is why it transfers.
Is this about prompting?
Prompts are on the takeaway card, but the skill is upstream of them. A sharp brief with an ordinary prompt beats a clever prompt with no brief, every time.
Will our people stop thinking for themselves?
The opposite is the point. The workflow is explicit about what stays human: the claim, the evidence, and every number. We show your team where an assistant is unreliable, not just where it is fast.
Can you run it in German?
Yes. Materials and delivery in English or German, and mixed groups are common.
Can you use our brand template?
Yes, and we prefer it. Working in your own template is what makes the design stage useful rather than generic.
Your trainer
Joern Steinz
Founder of SkillDay, trainer and consultant. He has been designing and facilitating workshops since 2014, after years at Accenture and XING, and holds an MBA from EADA Business School in Barcelona.
SkillDay is a network of around six trainers, so a session is always led by someone who works in the field it covers.
Get in touch
Bring this workflow to your team
Tell us who is in the room and which decks matter, and we will propose a session built around them.
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