Wiki:Presentations

From WFM Labs

A presentation source is a body of thinking held as markdown, from which decks are built. It carries claims, evidence and the shape each idea wants to take — and no artwork, layout or branding, because those belong to the deck rather than to the argument.

This page is the index. Everything is below.

Sources

ID Source Topics Origin Blocks
PS-001 Adaptive — Building Workforce Systems for an Unpredictable Future Automation pressure · WFM maturity · readiness and the gap · three workforce pools · the Value Planning Model SWPP 2026, 44 slides 22

Building a deck from one

  1. Open the source and copy its blocks
  2. In a project holding a layout inventory for the target template, ask for slide titles in order — and read them alone before going further
  3. Then ask for a build sheet: one block per slide, layout named exactly
  4. Assemble: new slide → pick the named layout → paste each field

Roughly ninety seconds a slide once the thinking is done. The method is Wiki:Packs/Presentation Production (CP-CNT-001).

One source, many decks. The same blocks produce a conference talk, an internal briefing or a three-slide explainer, against whatever template that audience requires. Nothing is rewritten — only re-rendered.

Adding a source

  1. Take the origin material — an existing deck, a paper, a set of notes, or a concept that has not been presented yet
  2. Extract it to blocks. Where the origin is image-rendered slides or a PDF, read it visually in a separate session and write to a file, so hundreds of slides never enter a working conversation
  3. Findings only. Every framework reconstructed completely, every number with what it refers to, anything verbatim that is well phrased. The analytical pass is separate work
  4. Publish as Wiki:Presentations/<Name>, take the next PS- number, and add a row above
  5. Surface any unsourced figure on the page, not inside a block, so the next person to build from it sees it first

A source does not need to be large. Three or four blocks is a legitimate source for a short explainer, and is often the more useful kind.

The block format

Each idea is one block. Five fields; the last two are what make a source usable rather than merely archived.

Field Contains
CLAIM One sentence. What this asserts
WHY Why it matters to the audience. Two or three lines
EVIDENCE Figures, sources, the worked example. Everything quantitative
FORM What shape this wants to be — a sequence, a comparison, one number, a statement. Abstract, never a layout name
NOTES Caveats, what it is not, where it breaks, and anything unsourced

FORM pays for itself: deciding the shape while the idea is fresh turns deck-building into a lookup rather than a judgement. Keeping it abstract is what lets one source bind to any template.

NOTES is where a figure is marked as an estimate rather than a finding. A number that passed unchallenged in one room may not in the next, and the source is where that is recorded once rather than rediscovered each time.

Why a source is separate from a deck

Ideas worth presenting usually already exist — in an old deck, a paper, a set of notes — and are trapped in a format that does not travel. Image-rendered slides carry no text. A file sits on the wrong machine. Branding built for one audience is wrong for the next.

Extracting the argument once, as text, means every future deck starts from the argument rather than from a blank page. The source is the durable artifact. A deck is a rendering of it for one audience.

See also

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