Always write your slide headlines before creating your charts
Always write your slide headlines first
If you create PowerPoint slides, here’s a transformative tip: always write your slide headlines before creating your charts.
Why? Because most analysts take the opposite approach - creating charts first and adding headlines afterward. While this may seem faster initially, it often results in more effort down the line and slides that fail to deliver maximum impact.
When you start with charts, you often waste time. You delete unnecessary slides, rework cluttered ones, or create headlines that are too descriptive, don’t align with the data, or both. Your audience? They’re left confused and overwhelmed.
Let’s break this down with an example: