Client: Current Employer

Made with: Powerpoint

Time in Development: 6 hours

Collaborators: Solo-Project

Background

I've spent the last 10 years working in sales and recruiting. It's a high-volume, heavily interrupted work environment that can challenge even the most organized professionals to stay on task. I quickly learned the value of time-blocking, but I have refined the best way to employ the technique over the last few years. This instruction was designed for new hires and any other salespeople or recruiters who would benefit from adding structure to their day. 

Solution Developed

Criteria: This short instructional presentation needed to lay out the basics of time-blocking a weekly schedule with a focus on high-volume outbound sales and recruiting environments. The instruction needed to be primarily visual, include brief notes to read with each slide, and contain catchy, memorable key points so recruiters and salespeople would retain the content and be able to put it into practice at their desks. 

Constraints: I wanted to create my own images for this instruction, both as a learning opportunity AND to ensure there was no conflict of image rights. I decided to familiarize myself with a few different AI image generation services and settled on ChatGPT to generate most of the images found in this presentation. I plan to regularly revisit these options, as the world of AI is rapidly changing and newer, more powerful options pop up every day. 

Results

I think the project came together quite well. While the images support the lesson intuitively, I do think it still relies on an instructor to read the accompanying notes to make a full sense of the presentation - it wouldn't work as a stand-alone slide deck. One option would be to record audio to accompany the presentation and treat it almost as a video to play for the learners. The client who requested the instruction asked me to also be the instructor, so this wasn't an issue for its original context, but I may add that audio at a future date to supplement and make it an easier tool to utilize for future audiences.