Board deck template

The board deck is the presented half of the board pack: the version you talk to in the room, where the pacing of the slides is part of the argument. That makes Google Slides the right home for it — the tiles, charts and per-function slides keep the position a designer gave them, and nothing shifts because ARR gained a digit. Its written twin, the board report, does the opposite job for the reading that happens beforehand.

Let the repeating slides come from rows

The slides that make a deck tedious to rebuild are the ones that repeat: a slide per function, a slide per decision, an appendix that changes length. Those come from a loop over records rather than from copying a slide and editing it. Keep one row per function with its owner, headline number and commentary, and one row per decision with the ask and the recommendation, and the deck’s length follows the quarter instead of being trimmed to fit. The usual failure is a deck where last quarter’s slide was duplicated and one tile never got updated — generating removes that failure entirely, because no slide survives from one run to the next.