This is Stevea Robbins.

Welcome to the Get Done Guys, quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.

If you're a manager, you'll find a lot of your job is giving presentations.

Status presentations, market presentations, project presentations, analysis presentations, proposal presentations, training presentations, presentations, presentations to those above you presentations, to your colleagues, presentations to clients,

to your team's presentations everywhere.

It takes a lot of work to develop that many presentations, and if you present, you know

how much time and effort goes into a good presentation.

If you're going to put in that much effort, you want to get the most out of it.

Some presentations,

like status presentations, are very much about a specific moment in time. Those must be created from scratch, and when they're done, they're done. But other presentations, sales, analysis,

proposals, training, client can be reused either in their entirety or you can use them as a starting

point for other presentations further on down the line. If your presentations rely on slides,

and we can talk about that decision in a future podcast, you can carefully design them to be

sneakily reusable. Use a consistent look and feel for all of your presentations. Give all of them a consistent look and feel, and that means a color scheme, a font choice, and a layout.

Most presentation software provides templates for different slides so that everything within a presentation goes together.

A slide that has a bullet list on it will go together with a slide that has a picture and a caption,

and it will all be designed

by the presentation software, so you don't have to worry about it. If everything is consistent,

then when you change or add a slide, you don't need to worry about the formatting. The formatting

magically matches the rest of the presentation. But here's the trick. Don't just stop at one

presentation. Do them all. Choose the same theme for everything,

the same colors, fonts, layouts, for all of your presentations. This way you can easily

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