-: Welcome, in today's lecture,
where we are going to talk
about the executive summary slide.
Sounds flashy, but an oversimplified way of explaining it,
an executive summary slide is your presentation condensed
into a few slides,
and put at the beginning of your presentation.
Not everyone has time to read your entire deck,
and you wanna get your point
across right away, and have a condensed way to showcase
your presentation, for example, to executive,
but not only, of course, any person getting
your presentation might want to read that.
As I've mentioned, it is positioned
before the body content of your presentation.
It's usually after the introduction and agenda
but before the main content.
Now, the name is pretty self-explanatory,
and you can imagine
if you hand a 50 slide presentation to your executive,
it might be difficult to grasp what is where.
But if you take your key arguments and findings,
and just briefly point out your solutions or recommendation,
put it at the beginning of your presentation
so the person who takes it can quickly skim through it.
Bam, hopefully, you have his interest.
In the next lecture,
let me show you an example of how that really looks.
Let me also tell you what boxes should it tick.
It should reflect the SCR,
the Situation Complication Resolution
storyline of your deck, and the headings
should be a story in itself.
Before I let you go,
executive slide summaries are meant to be read.
So usually, they contain a lot of text.
You know already a little bit
about action titles and about building a storyline,
so the executive summary is usually
a condensation of all the titles you've prepared.