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Know which talk you're giving — the pitch (drive one decision) vs. the teach (build understanding) — because mixing their structures fails both, and most bad presentations are one wearing the other's clothes. Use when asked is this a pitch or a training, my informative deck didn't land the ask, my pitch felt like a lecture, or structure this talk for the right job. Produces the mode diagnosis, the structural implications, the mixed-mandate split, and the mode-check on an existing deck.

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# Pitch Vs Teach Skill

Two fundamentally different talks share the same slideware: the **pitch** exists to drive one decision (structure: tension → answer → evidence → ask; success: the yes) and the **teach** exists to build durable understanding (structure: foundation → layers → examples → practice; success: they can use it Tuesday). Most presentation failures are mode confusion — the pitch built like a lecture (comprehensive, balanced, ask-less: the room learned a lot and decided nothing) or the training built like a pitch (persuasive, thin, one-sided: the room was convinced but can't operate it). The diagnosis takes one question; the structures then diverge completely.

## What This Skill Produces

- **The mode diagnosis** — pitch, teach, or genuinely-both (which means two segments, not a blend), from the success-question
- **The structural implications** — what the diagnosed mode demands: sequence, density, evidence style, the ending
- **The mode-check** — an existing deck audited for mode confusion, with the tells cited
- **The split design** — for mixed mandates: the teach-then-pitch sequence with the seam handled

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