Present Like A Management Consultant

Unlock the secrets to creating amazing presentations like the one from top 3 consulting firms McKinsey, Bain, and BCG

What you'll learn

Persuade managers and leaders to take action based on your ideas and data

Create presentations that are impactful, memorable, and engaging for your audience

Outline, design, and present a presentation in the same style as a consultant at McKinsey, BCG, or Bain

Impress your managers and clients with clear, concise, and authoritative slide decks

Requirements

Access to a computer

Presentation software; preferably PowerPoint, but Keynote or Google Sheets work as well

Description

Presentation and communication skills are more important than ever in today’s business world.  Scores of studies show that communications skills are at the top of the most desired skills for new hires.  PowerPoint is the default method of communication in business, and yet, almost no one excels at communicating in PowerPoint.  No one, except for management consultants that is. 


Consultants at the top three firms McKinsey, BCG, and Bain are experts at making complicated ideas understandable and driving business leaders towards making changes and implementing solutions.  They have developed a system for how to do this, a system I can teach you.  Believe it or not, their system relies on impactful presentations in PowerPoint. 


I will teach you the same techniques that I learned as a consultant at BCG.  These techniques helped me convince clients to implement ideas delivering hundreds of millions of dollars of annual impact.  I moved into business development post consulting, and the same techniques apply to selling clients and convincing them that your proposal is their best option.


In this course we will cover the entire presentation development cycle and learn how to:


Determine your key message

Lay out your argument with the pyramid principle

Develop supporting arguments that are MECE

Arrange your presentation into a compelling storyline

Create attractive slides that are effective

Utilize titles to avoid confusion

Make good charts that support your key message

Tailor your presentation to your audience

Portray executive presence when speaking

Present over the phone

Sound smart

Save time with tips and tricks in PowerPoint


We will review the concepts and principles we discuss by looking at some actual McKinsey, BCG, and Bain slides to see how they used them. 


The work that consulting firms do is difficult, but the system they use to present their results is not.  I can teach you how, and the difference it will make in your career can be trans-formative.  I know it will be, it was for me.  I look forward to seeing you in the course!
    



Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 What you will get from this course

Lecture 2 About the instructor

Lecture 3 Why PowerPoint is so important in business

Lecture 4 Why consulting style communications are relevant to everyone

Lecture 5 Who should take this course

Section 2: Build your storyline

Lecture 6 What is the point you are trying to make?

Lecture 7 How to choose what topics to discuss

Lecture 8 The Pyramid Principle

Lecture 9 Hypothesis based problem solving

Lecture 10 MECE

Lecture 11 How many supporting arguments to use?

Lecture 12 Arrange and order supporting arguments

Lecture 13 Additions to your presentation

Lecture 14 Proposals and pitches

Lecture 15 Build the storyboard

Lecture 16 Next steps

Lecture 17 Using examples

Lecture 18 Storyline exercise

Section 3: Create your slides

Lecture 19 The three commandments of slide writing

Lecture 20 The parts of a slide

Lecture 21 Titles: the most important part of the slide

Lecture 22 Exercise: how to write a compelling slide title

Lecture 23 Subtitles

Lecture 24 Takeaways

Lecture 25 Slide body - using graphics

Lecture 26 Slide body - using tables

Lecture 27 Slide body - using charts

Lecture 28 How to make good line charts

Lecture 29 How to make good bar charts

Lecture 30 How to make good waterfall charts

Lecture 31 Slide body - text only slides

Lecture 32 Text slide examples from McKinsey

Lecture 33 Notes / sources / headers / page numbers

Lecture 34 Appendices

Section 4: Present your ideas, data, and solutions

Lecture 35 Tailoring your presentation to the audience

Lecture 36 The secret to becoming an awesome presenter

Lecture 37 How to effectively prepare

Lecture 38 Developing executive presence

Lecture 39 How to stop reading your slides

Lecture 40 How to sound smart

Lecture 41 Tips for presenting over the phone

Section 5: PowerPoint tips and tricks

Lecture 42 Shortcuts, tips, & tricks

Lecture 43 PowerPoint efficiency tools

Lecture 44 How to properly utilize old slides

Section 6: Conclusion and thanks

Lecture 45 Thanks from your instructor

Lecture 46 Actual McKinsey, Bain, and BCG presentations

Section 7: Added Material: Putting it all together in a real life example

Lecture 47 Putting it all together

Lecture 48 Case study: collections performance

Lecture 49 Presentation and materials: Collections performance case study

Sales professionals seeking deeper client discussions,Office workers looking to improve their interactions with executives,Aspiring management consultants,Anyone who wants to improve their presentation skills, save time writing PowerPoint slides, and to never again waste an opportunity to get their point across,Analysts who want to get more recommendations implemented