What is the aim of this course?   

In management consulting, you are delivering your advice, observation, and analyses using presentations. On some projects, you may be producing as many as 200-300 slides. Slide preparation is very time-consuming and you have to make sure that you structure your work properly to deliver according to promised deadlines.     

In this course, you will learn how to prepare a great presentation for your customer that will help you deliver your thoughts in a coherent manner and win him over. I will teach you how to prepare the presentation in the right order so you do not waste your time. You will also learn what type of slides you can consider and when you should use a specific type of slide.   

This course is based on my 15 years of experience as a consultant in top consulting firms and as a Board Member responsible for strategy, performance improvement, and turn-arounds in the biggest firms from Retail, FMCG, SMG, B2B, and services sectors that I worked for. I have carried or supervised over 90 different performance improvement projects in different industries that generated in total 2 billion of additional EBITDA. On the basis of what you will find in this course, I have trained in person over 100 consultants, business analysts, and managers who now are Partners in PE and VC funds, Investment Directors and Business Analysts in PE and VC, Operational Directors, COO, CRO, CEO, Directors in Consulting Companies, Board Members, etc. On top of that my courses on Udemy were already taken by more than 124 000 students including people working in EY, Walmart, Booz Allen Hamilton, Adidas, Naspers, Alvarez & Marsal, PwC, Dell, Walgreens, Orange, and many others.

I teach through case studies, so you will have a lot of lectures showing examples of analyses, tools that we use. To every lecture, you will find attached (in additional resources) the Excels as well as additional presentations, materials shown in the lectures so as a part of this course you will also get a library of ready-made analyses that can, with certain modification, be applied by you or your team in your work.   

Why have I decided to create this course?   

Presentations are not something people learn in school or even at universities. For most people, it is difficult to read presentations and to express themselves using slides. Many people, experience also in the beginning problems in proper structuring of the whole presentation. They cannot make it understandable for the customer and quite often the presentation lacks the flow.  The biggest problem in consulting is that the presentation is determining the analyses that you have to make. If your presentation draft is not well structured and thought-through you will not be efficient with interviews, data gathering, and analyses. Therefore, I found it critical to teach all my co-workers and employees how to express themselves. In this way, I made their work (not only related to presentation) much more efficient and also my life much easier :). Learn from this course and apply it also in your work   

In what way will you benefit from this course?   

The course is a practical, step-by-step guide loaded with tones of cases, tricks, hints that will significantly improve the speed with which you work. You will learn how to prepare a great presentation both for internal as well as external purposes. There is little theory – mainly examples, a lot of tips from my own experience as well as other notable examples worth mentioning. My intention is that thanks to the course you will know:   

1. How to structure the subject that the presentation is addressing?   

2. In what order you should approach the preparation of the presentation?   

3. How to prepare the sketch and the template of the presentation?   

4. What type of slides and when you can use them?   

You can also ask me any question either through the discussion mode or by messaging me directly. How the course is organized?   

The course is divided into the following sections:   

• Introduction.      We begin with a little intro into the course as well as some general info on the role of presentation in consulting and when you actually prepare presentations   

• Creating the template. In the second section how to go from a general idea (i.e. from an issue tree) to a sketch and how to transform the sketch into a template   

• Filling in the slides. In the next section, I will talk about general rules concerning the filling-in the slides, the flow that you achieve, and how different is the template vs the end-product   

• Delivery of the presentation.  In this section, we will talk briefly about the delivery of the presentation: how to do it and how different is the written presentation from the presentation that can be delivered to the audience.   

• Types of charts you can use. In this section, I will go through many types of slides and will show you what you can use for a specific purpose   

• Example of presentations. In the next section, I show examples of real presentations and will discuss what I have structured them in such a way.   

   

You will be able also to download many additional resources   

1. Templates of slides   

2. Example of the presentations shown in the course   

3. Links to additional presentations and movies   

4. Links to books worth reading   

At the end of my course, students will be able to…   

• Create a great presentation in the style of top consulting firms

• Understand the main challenges in preparing the management consulting presentation

• Express yourself with slides

• Read presentation

• Create the flow in the story told via presentation

Who should take this course? Who should not?   

• Management Consultants

• Students of Business Schools

• Researchers

• Business Analysts