C-level Presentation Skills - Slide Writing for Consulting

Welcome to this presentation class that will teach you all presentation skills you need to create top management-level slide presentations! This is why this class is right for you:

• Teacher was Project Lead at global top 3 strategy consulting firm with ~6 years of experience and 1,000+ created slides 
• I have slide writing teaching experience within my consulting firm but also teaching students in MBA programs of business schools
• Relevant and up to date material - this is what BCG, Bain and the like teach in their onboarding programs
• Comprehensive slide writing skills covered from storyline to structuring details
• Does not require any specific presentation program - you choose your tool that best fits your workflow

I want you to stay focused, this class covers slide writing concepts and teaches you all the necessary presentation skills to create slide presentations like top management consultants. It will not focus on the specifics of how to use a presentation program.

Did you ever wanted to create slide presentations like a top strategy consultant? I will teach you the ins and outs of creating professional top management presentations.

These are some of the topics that we will cover:

• Create compelling storylines that will win your audience
• Structure your presentations in an intuitive way
• Visualize data analyses with the right charts
• Use consistency as a presentation principle
• Increase production speed with slide blueprints
• Learn the creation workflow and valuable design tips

I am very much looking forward to teaching you these exciting presentation skills in my class. Welcome on board!

• May I introduce myself
• Course introduction
• Course syllabus
• Fix your text boxes
• Which presentation program to use
• Introduction to storyline creation
• Top-down communication applying the pyramid principle
• Situation-Complication-Solution framework for storylines
• Action Titles and why they matter
• EXERCISE: Create an action title for this slide
• Creating a Vertical to flesh out your storyline
• Introduction to presentation structuring
• MECE principle
• EXERCISE: Are these structures MECE?
• Overview pages and double-click logic
• Chapter trackers
• Introduction to data visualization
• Make your chart speak for itself
• Data visualization plug-ins
• Introduction to presentation consistency
• Using parallel grammar and structures
• Key consistency checks
• Introduction to slide blueprints
• Do's and don't of slide creation
• Key principle: Every page is a table
• More complex slide blueprints
• Best practices for "Master management"
• Most relevant shortcuts in PowerPoint
• Alignment of elements
• Stickers, qualifiers and more
• Thank you and feedback