MANAGEMENT CONSULTING PRESENTATION - How consulting firms create slide presentations (Ex-McKinsey)

Top management consulting firms such as McKinsey, BCG or Bain use special techniques to create their PowerPoint slide presentations. In this video, I give you an overview into the most commonly used slide design principles that MBB consulting firms use. It covers frequently used PowerPoint slide elements such as callouts, bubbles, waterfall charts, structure elements, clotheslines, takeaway boxes and much more. Drawing from my 6 years of experience having worked at McKinsey, I show you what MBB consulting firms (McK, BCG, Bain) teach their rookies in their onboarding programs. Learn management consulting presentation skills by understanding the consulting presentation examples I show you. These strategy consulting PowerPoint presentation examples will help you understand how McKinsey PowerPoint slides look like (or those of other management consulting firms). Improve your slide presentation skills: Learn to create consulting PowerPoint presentations and learn to work with PowerPoint! Slide writing is one of the key skills to master as consultant.

Chapters
00:00 Introduction
02:34 Slide Writing Course
03:11 Basic slide elements
05:02 Action titles
05:40 Creation of charts
06:44 Waterfall charts
09:05 Callouts
10:03 Stickers
14:04 Takeaway box
14:41 Bubbles
16:49 Number circles
19:02 Clotheslines
20:13 Structure elements
22:22 Wrap-up

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[hannu]

What i really like about Firm Learning videos is that the topic is dealth with in very caring and sincere way. Loads of honesty out there. Very very nice..excellent and thanks a lot!

[roaae]

I have watched many videos on creating slides like management consultants and this by far is the most useful! Thank you

[nassozaranoff]

Great video and thank you for sharing your knowledge! Another tip I would like to highlight in addition to the ones mentioned are:
1) Font type, size and style - don't overdue it, keep things simple e.g. 2-3 at most.
1) The same goes for general color range. Simplify them e.g. use one for negative and another for positive developments. Try to align them with your presentation template colors, avoid the rainbow.

Thank you Heinrich, I learned great tips from this video.

[superjoaopais]

Interesting! This is so true! I did an internship at BCG and I clearly remember seeing all these elements!

[bellatrixevans]

I'm not even a consultant but he's just so endearing and helpful

[marvinmeinhard]

Last year I quit consulting and joined an international bank in Frankfurt in a risk management position, and I felt that my presentations often did not meet the needs of the board members. Therefore, I think that your tips are very helpful even for non-advisory activities. Thank you for passing on your advice!

[NailsByRah]

I am a first year MBA student and I am so happy to have found your page. My team and I are working on a case study presentation and this has been super helpful. Thank you!

[patrickmcgill]

The last slide was extremely valuable. The clothesline is a common component in many presentations and this is a very constructive way to overcome it.

[saurabhpatil]

You have actually replied to every single comment! You have not played "safe" here as a Consultant by saying "I will try to" :) I wish you good luck for the channel! and I hope you get a lot of comments so that you think of saying "I will try to" :p

[BourbonDrinker]

Great video. I am a consultant and have been on a mission most of my career to clean up PowerPoint slides. So many people do PowerPoint wrong.

[sherryyixiao]

This video is so helpful! I just started my new job and tried to improve slide presentation skill eagerly.

[saminmostahid]

Just started working as an In-house consulting, this was very insightful ! Looking forward to more of these :)

[suhaibmudassir]

Plz make a series of your quality content. Don't keep it as a random video . Create a playlist and boom!
It should look like complete curriculum for management consultants

[СергейХалин-хь]

Heinrich, your channel is the most inspiring for self development in structuring consulting offers. You are doing a great work!

Congrats on 1K subscribers Heinrich and want to let u know I'm finding your videos very insightful!

[AdamGobin]

How have I just known about this channel?!!! Incredible stuff - definitely subscribed and sharing with my team. Keep up the brilliant work.

[tamafun]

Thank you for your leadership on this initiative

[MrTwoFox]

This is awesome! One point I think you can highlight as well is the importance of visual formatting, particularly the usage of colors. For example, in the waterfall graph that shows changes in EBITDA, negative-EBITDA factors can be colored light red while positive can be light green. This makes it easier for someone to just look at the slide and "get it".

[ollie]

Great awareness, why didn’t you were when my career was srtarting; thank you for sharing life career hacks that are not taught in school

[kennethdenton]

Very very good and informative. Thank u for this. Best video in ur series I’ve seen yet.