How to ask for what you want
Say the content and the point. Let the assistant choose the layout.
The most common mistake is describing a slide's appearance instead of its argument. Appearance is the part the assistant is good at choosing. The argument is the part only you have.
Lead with the point
Make a slide with three boxes across the middle and icons above them.
Make a slide that shows the three reasons the rollout slipped, weighted so the supplier delay reads as the main one.
The second version gets you a better slide, because the layout is chosen to serve the argument rather than being imposed on it.
Scope one request at a time
A request that changes the structure, rewrites the copy and restyles the charts will do all three roughly. Three requests in sequence will do each one properly, and you get a checkpoint between them.
Name your constraints
- Length: how many slides, or how many points on one slide.
- Tone: who is reading it and how much they already know.
- Fixed material: wording you cannot change, or a structure the client expects.
- What to leave alone: the slides you have already got right.