all-hands-deck

# All Hands Deck Skill The all-hands serves the widest audience in the company — new hires and executives, engineers and sales, the anxious and the checked-out — and decks built for any single altitude lose the rest: pure strategy bores the floor, pure metrics baffle the new, pure celebration reads as evasion in a hard quarter. The working structure mixes altitudes deliberately (the story everyone follows, the numbers that keep trust, the wins with *names*, the hard news handled straight), and treats the Q&A as a designed segment — because the questions people actually have determine what the meeting was *about*, whatever the slides said. ## What This Skill Produces - **The segment structure** — the recurring skeleton: the narrative open, numbers, wins-with-names, the focus segment, hard news when owed, Q&A - **The altitude rules** — per segment: what the newest hire needs vs. what the veterans check - **The hard-news handling** — straight, early, with the what-it-means-for-you answered before it's asked - **The Q&A mechanics** — pre-submitted + live, the no-softball discipline, and the answer-or-commit rule ## Required Inputs Ask for these if not provided: - **The month's material** — the numbers, the wins, the news (including the uncomfortable); the deck is assembled from reality, and the temptation to skip the bad month is the trust-killer to resist - **The company's current mood** — post-layoff, post-win, mid-uncertainty; the structure holds but the emphasis calibrat...