All-Hands Town Hall Deck

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Sixteen slides for the quarterly all-hands

This is the deck for the meeting where the whole company is in one room. What separates it from a board report or an investor update is that the people listening are the ones the numbers are about. So it is not built to show results off. It is built so everyone confirms, on the same screen, where the company stands, what the next three months hold and what changed for people and teams. Spend half the slot explaining results and there is no time left for questions, which is why the metric cards on slide 14 are meant to finish that part in one slide.

Eight agenda lines, five body pairs

Slide 2 runs last quarter’s results, the next three months, organization news, submitted questions, what we commit to, sending a notice and saying it in person, key metrics, trend analysis. The first five each carry a divider and a body slide across slides 3 to 12, line 06 is the comparison on slide 13, and the last two map one-to-one onto slides 14 and 15. The agenda wording is copied from the divider titles, so rename a section in both places. For a shorter slot drop the organization news pair, not the questions pair.

The five body slides

• Last quarter’s results: “Revenue at 104% of the quarterly target”, “38 new customers – 5 churned”, “27 hires against a plan of 30”. Every line is written against a plan, so keep that form when you change the values, or nobody can tell whether it went well.
• The next three months: three things and no more, currently “The new pricing plan ships in April”, “Bring customer response under 24 hours” and “Groundwork starts for our first overseas site”. List every team’s plan instead and nobody remembers any of it.
• Organization news: new teams, appointments, joiners, the office move. Facts only, no commentary.
• Submitted questions: “41 received, duplicates grouped together”. The slide states that the anonymous questions are read out unfiltered, so keep the line that says where the rest go – “Whatever we cannot answer here goes on the board”.
• What we commit to: what the company owes the room before the next town hall. Without it the next session has nothing to check against.

The metric cards and the trend bars

Slide 14 holds 104 “Quarterly target met (%)”, 38 “New customers”, 27 “New hires this quarter” and 41 “Questions submitted”. The values carry no units because the labels do, so only the numbers need swapping. Keeping a question count as the fourth card is deliberate: it marks this as a Q&A rather than a briefing, so put your real intake in instead of deleting the card. Three of the four repeat numbers from slide 4, so edit both together. Slide 15 climbs from 68 in Q1 to 74, 81 and 88 in Q4, which suits something like attendance that moves session to session. Clear the “Figures are sample values” footnote under the cards and the “Unit: index” label beside the bars before you present.

The comparison slide

Slide 13 sets “Email notice” against “Town hall” line for line. “No way to tell who read it” faces “Everyone sees the same numbers together”, “Questions scatter into one-on-ones” faces “Everyone hears the questions and the answers”, and “The outcome lands with none of the context” faces “The reasoning behind it gets explained”. Change one side and its facing line has to move with it or the pairing stops working.

What goes wrong

• Reading out the wins and saving the miss for the end. Give the shortfall one of the three result lines and attach the plan.
• Leaving the sample 41 questions on the card when you collected nine. The number is the evidence that questions were actually gathered.
• Closing with thanks and no commitments. The closing line is “Questions are welcome after this too” – name the channel that leads to.