This is one of the articles that I had previously published on Dev.to. I am trying to refine them and starting to move my works to Medium.
Write up a short one to introduce something that came across my desk when I was reading the book “I Saw the Future At Amazon” by JJ Park (I am not sure whether this is the name of the book, as it was originally translated from Korean), called the “6-pager”.
Traditionally (or what most of us do), we use Powerpoint presentations to present some business ideas, and case studies, with all the point forms being listed in the slides. As the presenter, we then elaborate on the points by speech. For these occasions, some people might end up doing the slides at the very last minute, and improvise during the presentation. This always ends up in an ineffective meeting as most of the participants do not get a clear picture of the discussion, including the presenter.
In this book, the author introduced how Amazon does this as the presenter will be preparing 6 pages of “transcript”, written properly to describe in-depth the topics to be discussed in the meetings as if anyone could fully understand without participating in the meeting. When the meeting starts, each of the participants will receive a set of 6-pager, and everyone reads the transcript for 15–30 mins, without anyone making noise. They will jot down the questions that they have, instead of asking the presenter directly like in a PPT presentation which sometimes interrupts the presentation. They might even find the answers in the following pages of the transcript themselves after reading the whole document. When the participants finished reading the 6-pager, the presenter doesn’t have to go through all the details again but proceeded to the Q&A session.
Besides, when we finished the PPT presentation, we sent the presentation slides to the participants for their reference. However, the slides only contain the main points, and they don’t get the notes from the presenter. With a 6-pager, the presenter has to properly prepare and write up the transcript in order to describe everything in words, so that all of the contents could be referred back in the future.
I found this method amazing, did a search on the internet, and saw an amazing article by Jesse Freeman, which gives a complete walkthrough and strategies for applying this 6-pager method. You can check out this article here.
That’s it for the sharing today! I am currently grinding in the development of dApps and Web3-related technologies and can’t wait to share more with you guys in the upcoming articles. I shall try my best to translate them in a beginner-friendly way for you guys and all of my non-technical friends who are interested in blockchain technology. Stay tuned!
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