It works like this: drop an image or two into your slide, PowerPoint sends the graphics to the cloud, and then provides you with several different templates it thinks best suits the image.

If you use Microsoft PowerPoint for your slideshows, then you know that creating a presentation with a template can save you a lot of time. A template gives you a jumpstart on the design ...

so much so that banning PowerPoint might be the smartest thing a leader can do. What I didn’t provide, however, was a template for a briefing document, and that’s the point of this post.