The 5 Smart Slide Templates You Need for Q4

Between the last push to reach annual goals, and the holidays, Q4 can be hectic. In an especially busy season, optimizing your workflow can give you back the time you need to focus on high-priority tasks. That’s why we created the Q4 success kit. It’s the ultimate toolkit for Q4 and 2025 planning— carefully curated with presentation and slide templates, tips, and features to help teams maximize performance and reach end-of-year goals. 

As teams ramp up to close out the year, they may find themselves creating more presentations than normal. Things like quarterly business reviews, annual planning for the new year, or budget proposals may get added to their already-full to-do list. 

While we can’t create the decks for your boss, we can give you the tools to do it more efficiently.

Use these 5 Smart Slide to optimize your Q4 efforts

The Smart Slides we chose for the Q4 kit can help teams get their ideas onto slides faster, so they can present better. 

Here are the 5 Smart Slides you need for Q4 and a strong start to the new year.  

Funnel

A funnel chart is an incredibly versatile diagram that illustrates the stages of a process in the workplace. People often use funnel slides in presentations, reports, marketing materials, and dashboards to illustrate the sales of a product or service. You can use a funnel slide whenever you need to display data that decreases over time— especially if you need a high-level view of an overall process. You can also use it to map out the stages of key processes or workflows, making it easy to analyze and optimize your team’s approach for upcoming initiatives in Q4.

Photo Grid

A photo grid template can help your presentation tell a story visually without having to rely solely on text. You might use this template to show the faces behind a team of employees, share progress on a design or product-development project, or cover important information in an onboarding presentation. The photo grid is a great template to leverage in Q4 to present impactful storytelling and inspire fresh ideas with campaign highlights, survey outcomes, or creative work visuals. 

Timeline

A timeline is a visual representation marking all major events over a period of time. Timeline slides have many versatile uses—everything from project plans, to status updates, to “next steps” can be communicated using a timeline. A timeline can help you outline critical milestones and deadlines for Q4 and beyond, keeping everyone focused and synchronized as you navigate ongoing projects and prepare for what’s next.

Gantt Chart

A Gantt chart is a visual view of tasks scheduled over time. It's a type of bar chart that shows the start and finish dates of several elements of a project that include: what the project tasks are, who is working on each task, how long each task will take, and how tasks group together, overlap, and link with each other. A Gantt can help teams enhance project management and collaboration by visualizing Q4 campaign timelines, task assignments, and progress, ensuring effective execution.

Data Comparison

Our data comparison template is similar to a bar graph, using bars of varying lengths to display measured data. The data comparison template, however, displays percentages instead of exact numbers. One of the best things about using our data comparison slide? You can customize it for your Q4 presentation. Create a horizontal or vertical slide, remove or add grid lines, play with its design, and more.

A data comparison slide is great for looking back at performance metrics to analyze different time periods and uncover trends and insights that can shape your strategic direction for 2025.