@Analyst Academy - A fellow consultant here. Kindly make a video on "How to clean up Master Slide" as there are many times slides are pulled in from different sources and one is asked to format the whole document and ensure consistency in Master Slide. I think a video from on Master Slide will be really helpful for all. Thanks!!
I love love love and appreciate your work through this channel in helping people understand what works and what not. Youre a godsend. Wish there is one for Power BI too where we learn what works and what not on communicating through dashboard. Thank you so much kind sir. Hoping for more success for the channel.
That was great thank you. You asked about what we would like to see. I would love to see a video that focuses on the slides that are typical in a proposal. These are things like qualifications, biographies of the top team, pricing, and other slides that might only be in a proposal, and never again useda client presentation. Thanks!
Very good, i need to do a slide deck for an interview and i'll be honest im a rookie because i'm all about the data. This type of stuff is the 10% that gets you the 100% buy in
Sorry about that! Had to cut that section for time. Here's the full deck (pg. 34): www.mckinsey.com/~/media/mckinsey/about%20us/covid%20response%20center/overview/covid-19%20education%20response%20toolkit/202010_unesco-mckinsey%20response%20toolkit_org%20for%20the%20response_vf.pdf
Yes indeed it is an extraordinary presentation about structural workflow and the impact on audience. They have high educational standards that are for business target group and strategic development. I have not understood where can I present the excel sheets -shall I only make the statistical charts and not show the data that lays behind the chart? How about design ?
This video is great! Please can you have one for making project governance (e.g. layers of daily working members, working groups, workstrwam leads, SteerCo etc.) and communication loop ? 🙏
Any design tips for a one slider such as a market overview slide which may include high level key facts such as size, growth, trends, competitive landscape etc?
Are these presentations intended for a live presentation or to by viewed async without additional context? Asking because these slides seem very text heavy which I thought was very much discouraged for live presentations?
It's a mix of both. I agree many of these are too dense to be presented live, but you'd be surprised how common it is in consulting and elsewhere in the corporate world. Most often a slide is presented live, but still needs to be descriptive enough to stand alone without voiceover. With the right structure and design you can make it work.
For those of us who must design presentations for other people who insist on text slides, I'd like some tips on how to present text-only information. For instance, what would be the suggestion for the maximum number of words in a bullet point? Should the text be a sentence, phrase, or just the subject? Or other best practices to make these slides fit in with the chart slides and not so horrible looking for the audience.
These slides are reviewed before or after the presentation, not in detail during it. Therefore, use as many words as necessary to thoroughly explain your points.
Thank you for these videos. @Analyst Academy - Would you consider to make a video on "How to craft meaningful (system) training slides" Challenge - click here click there enter x here.. Battle is that these go on 70+ slides, if many things jammed into one slide get lost, if too sparsened out lost again.. If you dont show the whole screen just an icon the user dont know where to look for that icon.. Would be curious to hear your view Thanks
does anyone here show math on slides that can be presented to an executive audience. I have a need to show math related to some outcomes. today it is written like a bulleted word problem w/ numbers bolded. I'd like to see how others present this level of detail. appreciate any suggestions.
All your info is bang on accurate, however all those consultants slides are entirely too word dense. That's not your fault, but you'd think all those high dollar consultants would use their space on the slide better than they do.
Thought the same. Those table slides scream "hey, customer see I did my homework". I'd be surprised if these were ever used in an actual presentation. I would definitely blank out if someone tried to show one of these. They look more like appendices or stuff that should go into a report - looking at the slide page numbers that is probably a good guess. So basically the PowerPoint is a report without narrative.
10:00 sorry what 2-bit company made that piece of nonsense? there are no low-emission zones, urban road tolls or "other restrictions" in what I assume is supposed to be Helsinki, Finland (albeit misplaced by about 100km)
Consultants usually submit pdf slides, they need to be read by anybody at the firm preferably without having to exit the platform the presentation is being read on
Love the content on this channel... but I must disagree with building "tables" using text boxes and not an actual table. If you want large white spaces between, just add a white row. Having content in a table makes it much easier to ensure consistency. Thanks
Then I suggest you to learn UX&UI for better insight in page design, alligenments, contrasts, columns, raws and there is no such term in design as consistency. Check the professional vocabulary afferent for the given content. You dont talk about nutrition , you talk about bulsing an acceptable power point presenatation. You dont go at your business parteners with a project about sustainable energy and talk about food. Clear your talk and context -sustainABILITY ?
I think these are readily available templates in PowerPoint. It’ll make sense if the presenter provided real-world examples of each slide to appreciate why these remade templates are relevant in presentations. It feels like this video is just a filler to his channel.
These are slides for a readable document. Not recommended to show while speaking. If you need all those words on your slide while speaking, might as well shut up and let people read. Humans have a bias for the visual and CANNOT read and listen at the same time. If you want to really convince clients or investors, move the text to the notes and use more images and simple graphs. I’m surprised you’re teaching people how to do “what has always been done”.
I would love to work for McKinzie. I mean i am a total idiot myself and i have always longed to work among kindred spirits. Why can't every job be just consulting. I mean it's so cool, you just tell people what to do and they even pay you for that. My boss doesn't appreciate at all me doing just that. Bummer.
I think that one thing that should be kept in mind is that these slides are bad. Not speaking to your ability to reproduce them, but the idea of what these consulting companies are doing. They're simply trying to overwhelm their customers into thinking they have created value. Nobody is reading this stuff and there is far too much going on. You should not be able to hand over a slide deck and have folks read it and take away the valuable points. Slides should be very high-level... 3-5 bullet points of phrases, not sentences, and then a visual, if necessary. The value in a presentation is the presenter giving the real information.
Incorrect 👎: Actually, the upper management read the slides. They begin by reviewing the action title. If the title interests them, they delve into the details. That's why a shared pre-read version is essential; it allows management to address any concerns or questions during the presentation if they dislike or find something unclear on your slides. These slides are also intended for future reference. It would be unwise to distribute material that cannot be understood in detail without the presence of the presenter. The slides often contain a significant amount of content, because the problems and hypotheses are frequently quite complex. While some individuals attempt to make things appear more complicated than they are to confuse the audience, it doesn't always succeed, leading management to scrutinize and ask for clarification during the presentations or worse 😂.
@@carveratutube So basically, your slide decks are detailed reports - but written in PowerPoint with reduced narrative - and also seconding as presentation slides. Do you guys actually also submit a written report or is the 200-page slide deck the main deliverable?
@@Martinit0 I am not a consultant. The presented slide decks are not detailed reports; they are more like comprehensive management summaries. A detailed report, for example, would encompass information about the methodology used, data required for result replication, and various other details. The slide decks are typically considered management reports or summaries and are quite common in larger companies. However, business concepts are often documented in slide decks instead of traditional documents (whether you consider them as detailed reports or not) 🤷♀️. The provision of a detailed report as a document alongside a slide deck depends on the client, contract, and the work order.
@@karensams994same. Important thing to understand is who the audience is. Often, as is the case for these consultant companies, the slides will be digested in a live presentation format by some people and will be digested as a simple “read through” by other people. In that case, these slides probably are good because they’re having to do double duty basically. If the only audience this is for is seeing this info presented live, then these are really poor designs. I don’t think that’s the case though, so I think overall they work well enough.
Please stop putting paragraphs on your slides. Even sentences are too much. At that point, you are designing a leave behind document. If your slide needs that much text to convey the information, reconsider your design strategy.
It is also the most boring thing to watch. It literally says nothing and you are sleeping tight within a couple of minutes in to the presentation. How about change this consultant friendly slide deck thing, to a customer oriented informative communication! Just don’t approach me with bs
Popular =\= best. Consulting firms provide these word dense presentations to justify the $$$ they charge for basically useless information that who ever paid for it can cover their ass and have someone else to blame when what ever they’re trying to do fails.
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@Analyst Academy - A fellow consultant here. Kindly make a video on "How to clean up Master Slide" as there are many times slides are pulled in from different sources and one is asked to format the whole document and ensure consistency in Master Slide. I think a video from on Master Slide will be really helpful for all. Thanks!!
yes indeed, this would be a great topic.
this^
I love love love and appreciate your work through this channel in helping people understand what works and what not. Youre a godsend. Wish there is one for Power BI too where we learn what works and what not on communicating through dashboard. Thank you so much kind sir. Hoping for more success for the channel.
That was great thank you. You asked about what we would like to see. I would love to see a video that focuses on the slides that are typical in a proposal. These are things like qualifications, biographies of the top team, pricing, and other slides that might only be in a proposal, and never again useda client presentation. Thanks!
Great idea. Thank you!
Pro tip: build table slides with an actual table. Will save you a lot of time keeping everything aligned!
Paul, great video. Explaining in less than 15 minutes, but with quite some preparation, what we learn students in a two hour lecture👌.
DUDE you are so good at this
Very good, i need to do a slide deck for an interview and i'll be honest im a rookie because i'm all about the data. This type of stuff is the 10% that gets you the 100% buy in
Excellent overview tutorial. Ampler looks very useful.
Paul is the best! So cool to see this channel take off!
Very insightful. Thanks for sharing
Have I missed the slides in the thumbnail, or did you not include them (I recognized it from a Mckinsey deck we received so was interested)
Sorry about that! Had to cut that section for time. Here's the full deck (pg. 34): www.mckinsey.com/~/media/mckinsey/about%20us/covid%20response%20center/overview/covid-19%20education%20response%20toolkit/202010_unesco-mckinsey%20response%20toolkit_org%20for%20the%20response_vf.pdf
Thanks for the tutorial, it's very helpful.
Please do more videos more frequently. Your videos are truly valuable🎉
Great content Paul, tks for sharing it!
Excellent stuff 🎉
Yes indeed it is an extraordinary presentation about structural workflow and the impact on audience. They have high educational standards that are for business target group and strategic development. I have not understood where can I present the excel sheets -shall I only make the statistical charts and not show the data that lays behind the chart? How about design ?
thank you so much for this!
This video is great!
Please can you have one for making project governance (e.g. layers of daily working members, working groups, workstrwam leads, SteerCo etc.) and communication loop ? 🙏
You are a legend mate 👍 . No BS!!
Loved it!
VERY useful info 👍🏾👍🏾
splendid ! i love your video !
I concur these are very helpful commenting to train the algorithm
You can use table for the table slide.
Awesome video! Big fan of AA ❤
thank you so much
I like how he looks to the left and right when explaining.
bruuuv thank you for sharing! I really learn a lot from your vids!!
You are a God send
subbed and liked. Great content
Any design tips for a one slider such as a market overview slide which may include high level key facts such as size, growth, trends, competitive landscape etc?
amazing channel
good job
Are these presentations intended for a live presentation or to by viewed async without additional context? Asking because these slides seem very text heavy which I thought was very much discouraged for live presentations?
It's a mix of both. I agree many of these are too dense to be presented live, but you'd be surprised how common it is in consulting and elsewhere in the corporate world. Most often a slide is presented live, but still needs to be descriptive enough to stand alone without voiceover. With the right structure and design you can make it work.
For those of us who must design presentations for other people who insist on text slides, I'd like some tips on how to present text-only information. For instance, what would be the suggestion for the maximum number of words in a bullet point? Should the text be a sentence, phrase, or just the subject? Or other best practices to make these slides fit in with the chart slides and not so horrible looking for the audience.
These slides are reviewed before or after the presentation, not in detail during it. Therefore, use as many words as necessary to thoroughly explain your points.
Hi can you share how to eye balling the charts video
Thank you for these videos.
@Analyst Academy - Would you consider to make a video on "How to craft meaningful (system) training slides"
Challenge - click here click there enter x here.. Battle is that these go on 70+ slides, if many things jammed into one slide get lost, if too sparsened out lost again.. If you dont show the whole screen just an icon the user dont know where to look for that icon..
Would be curious to hear your view
Thanks
Hi
Good work, kindly make v-log on adding charts with data.
Thanks
FANTASTIC !!!!
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How can you look at these power points for free?
Is there any way Mac users can install Ampler in their MS Powerpoint? Thank you.
does anyone here show math on slides that can be presented to an executive audience. I have a need to show math related to some outcomes. today it is written like a bulleted word problem w/ numbers bolded. I'd like to see how others present this level of detail. appreciate any suggestions.
All your info is bang on accurate, however all those consultants slides are entirely too word dense. That's not your fault, but you'd think all those high dollar consultants would use their space on the slide better than they do.
Thought the same. Those table slides scream "hey, customer see I did my homework". I'd be surprised if these were ever used in an actual presentation. I would definitely blank out if someone tried to show one of these. They look more like appendices or stuff that should go into a report - looking at the slide page numbers that is probably a good guess. So basically the PowerPoint is a report without narrative.
top man
The Udemy course looks like it is unavailable. 😮 Is it just me?
10:00 sorry what 2-bit company made that piece of nonsense? there are no low-emission zones, urban road tolls or "other restrictions" in what I assume is supposed to be Helsinki, Finland (albeit misplaced by about 100km)
Opinion on video beneath slides? Interactive buttons?
Consultants usually submit pdf slides, they need to be read by anybody at the firm preferably without having to exit the platform the presentation is being read on
I'm offended :P No love for the waterfall chart?
meeko charts in excel pls...can that be done
and now we just need to figure out how to make nice versions of these with LaTeX.
04:24 type of graphs
Love the content on this channel... but I must disagree with building "tables" using text boxes and not an actual table. If you want large white spaces between, just add a white row. Having content in a table makes it much easier to ensure consistency. Thanks
Then I suggest you to learn UX&UI for better insight in page design, alligenments, contrasts, columns, raws and there is no such term in design as consistency. Check the professional vocabulary afferent for the given content. You dont talk about nutrition , you talk about bulsing an acceptable power point presenatation. You dont go at your business parteners with a project about sustainable energy and talk about food. Clear your talk and context -sustainABILITY ?
Usually told not to put a table in the slide
what does a consultant do? Hard mode: Respond without yapping
I think these are readily available templates in PowerPoint. It’ll make sense if the presenter provided real-world examples of each slide to appreciate why these remade templates are relevant in presentations. It feels like this video is just a filler to his channel.
Roland berger slides are actually really poor. They are too texty and crowded, and lacks guding elements. I would advise not using them as examples 😊
👌👌👌
Do consulting firms actually present these as is, or are these documents handed to their client, or both?
Both
Confirm, both ✌️
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These are slides for a readable document. Not recommended to show while speaking. If you need all those words on your slide while speaking, might as well shut up and let people read. Humans have a bias for the visual and CANNOT read and listen at the same time. If you want to really convince clients or investors, move the text to the notes and use more images and simple graphs.
I’m surprised you’re teaching people how to do “what has always been done”.
Some of the samples look really old! Also Ampler does not support IOS
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I would love to work for McKinzie. I mean i am a total idiot myself and i have always longed to work among kindred spirits.
Why can't every job be just consulting. I mean it's so cool, you just tell people what to do and they even pay you for that.
My boss doesn't appreciate at all me doing just that. Bummer.
I think that one thing that should be kept in mind is that these slides are bad. Not speaking to your ability to reproduce them, but the idea of what these consulting companies are doing. They're simply trying to overwhelm their customers into thinking they have created value. Nobody is reading this stuff and there is far too much going on. You should not be able to hand over a slide deck and have folks read it and take away the valuable points. Slides should be very high-level... 3-5 bullet points of phrases, not sentences, and then a visual, if necessary. The value in a presentation is the presenter giving the real information.
Incorrect 👎: Actually, the upper management read the slides. They begin by reviewing the action title. If the title interests them, they delve into the details. That's why a shared pre-read version is essential; it allows management to address any concerns or questions during the presentation if they dislike or find something unclear on your slides.
These slides are also intended for future reference. It would be unwise to distribute material that cannot be understood in detail without the presence of the presenter.
The slides often contain a significant amount of content, because the problems and hypotheses are frequently quite complex. While some individuals attempt to make things appear more complicated than they are to confuse the audience, it doesn't always succeed, leading management to scrutinize and ask for clarification during the presentations or worse 😂.
I actually agree with both commenter and commentee
@@carveratutube So basically, your slide decks are detailed reports - but written in PowerPoint with reduced narrative - and also seconding as presentation slides. Do you guys actually also submit a written report or is the 200-page slide deck the main deliverable?
@@Martinit0 I am not a consultant. The presented slide decks are not detailed reports; they are more like comprehensive management summaries. A detailed report, for example, would encompass information about the methodology used, data required for result replication, and various other details. The slide decks are typically considered management reports or summaries and are quite common in larger companies. However, business concepts are often documented in slide decks instead of traditional documents (whether you consider them as detailed reports or not) 🤷♀️. The provision of a detailed report as a document alongside a slide deck depends on the client, contract, and the work order.
@@karensams994same. Important thing to understand is who the audience is. Often, as is the case for these consultant companies, the slides will be digested in a live presentation format by some people and will be digested as a simple “read through” by other people. In that case, these slides probably are good because they’re having to do double duty basically.
If the only audience this is for is seeing this info presented live, then these are really poor designs. I don’t think that’s the case though, so I think overall they work well enough.
All of these slides have some much content on them. I guess consultants like to make slides look complicated on purpose?
Didn't know, Top firms make such shitty slides. Im actually shocked...
At what moment crossed your mind to dub the video with female voiced while you’re a man😂
Please stop putting paragraphs on your slides. Even sentences are too much. At that point, you are designing a leave behind document. If your slide needs that much text to convey the information, reconsider your design strategy.
"They don't need to be pretty"
I'm sorry but yes they very much do need to be pretty
Excuse me... "The don't need to be pretty"?!?!? I beg the differ! 😂
powerpoint lmao what year you on its almso wake up
It is also the most boring thing to watch. It literally says nothing and you are sleeping tight within a couple of minutes in to the presentation.
How about change this consultant friendly slide deck thing, to a customer oriented informative communication!
Just don’t approach me with bs
ChatGPT, please make me a slide that looks like the kind of slide Accenture makes …
Popular =\= best. Consulting firms provide these word dense presentations to justify the $$$ they charge for basically useless information that who ever paid for it can cover their ass and have someone else to blame when what ever they’re trying to do fails.
They say after you make 10,000 slides for others, someone, somewhere, will make a slide for you
Distilling it down ... nice:)