Preparing Powerful Consulting Presentations

Rules for writing structured slide decks used by top consulting firms

4.08 (253 reviews)
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English
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Communications
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1 hour
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Mar 2023
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$54.99
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What you will learn

You will learn how to structure ideas in your presentations both across each slide and the whole deck

The flow of your presentations will improve via proper slide sequencing

You will learn by examples how to use frameworks that help build a presentation starting from loose ideas (SPQA, storyboarding, etc.)

Your presentations will contain less mistakes and inconsistencies thanks to provided guidelines and checklists

You will understand how to choose appropriate visualisation methods to support your message

Your presentations will look much better thanks to taught best practices regarding graphics used by top consulting firms (with examples)

Description

The majority of business communication happens with the use of presentations. Decks of PowerPoint and Keynote slides are used during most business meetings, they are employed to summarise key ideas in written communication and even replace Word documents as the form of choice for longer text pieces that include charts and graphics. In short, presentations are ubiquitous. Whether you still study, work in business or the public sector, or do research chances are you work with slide decks almost every day. If you are involved in creating any kind of slides used to convey information you will profit from taking this course

Consultants of the top consulting firms are widely considered the masters of powerful presentations. The reason for it is their use of specific tools and rules when preparing presentations. In this course you will learn about these methods (and see examples of their use) which include:

  • adjusting your presentations to its purpose and audience
  • using the SPQA (Situation, Problem, Question, Answers) framework to define your presentation
  • structuring your slides vertically and horizontally and filling them with meaningful charts
  • abiding by several slide construction rules and argument structuring guidelines
  • using checklists to make sure your slides are flawless. 

I will also walk you through best practices of slides preparation and equip you with pre-defined rule sets for preparing powerful presentations that you will be able to download. 

Enroll now and take your presentation skills to the next level!

Content

Introduction

Your purpose and your audience
How to start your presentation?
Horizontal and vertical logic

From task definition to structured presentation

4 stages of presentation preparation
SPQA - Situation, Problem, Question, Answers
Structuring thoughts and slides

Drafting the presentation

Slides sequencing
Constructing a slide

Perfecting your presentation

Reviewing the flow
Reviewing every slide
Charts - best practices
Good vs a bad slides

The final checklists

Deck checklist
Slides checklist

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Reviews

Margot
October 31, 2023
I think not is very entertaining and its also tedious see a man reading a text, because the most of the time is what I see
John
September 26, 2023
It was dreadfully dry and boring. He's actually not a great presenter and his slide graphics show a lack of understanding of how to engage people with visuals.
Mala
July 25, 2023
This presentation was very helpful, but hard to listen to all at once with so much detailed info. It's one I'd like to refer to when I need it. Checklists at the end were very helpful as well.
Jerry
June 27, 2023
I feel like the course was good overall! I felt that this course was very content heavy and not broken up in a way that made it easy to grasp completely. More tables and visualizations would have been helpful.
Uttam
January 6, 2023
Very methodical and logical. Easy to understand and use. But would need to practice this for at least 10 times. Thanks for sharing the knowldege. Regards, Sankhyan
Suresh
January 2, 2021
It was okay. Covers the concepts but it would be helpful to show how each point is incorporated into a slide deck by showing a live demo across each lesson. The initial sections were just theory with no clear demonstration.
Erlanda
September 24, 2018
I would prefer more examples of how to structure a lot of information, how to prioritise what to communicated
Zihou
January 28, 2018
Overall this is a very good course and instructor is energetic. This course suits all the people who need to do presentation.
Ania
January 3, 2018
Great way to build on the knowledge about hypothesis based problem solving. Knowledgable lecturer too.
Jurij
January 3, 2018
Very practical information about slide construction, I really like it and will implement it in my work

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