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| Advanced PowerPoint for Consultants |
After thousands of hours in this kind of environment, consultants become PowerPoint wizards, with the incredible and rare ability to build professional, well-structured slides in a matter of minutes. They know all the important keyboard shortcuts, and understand how to use PowerPoint's hidden features to avoid hours of unnecessary work.
If you're a new consultant, or if you're just looking to build slides like a consultant, getting to this skill level can be extremely challenging. Typically it requires thousands of hours building slides in a consulting environment, with managers who are ready and willing to provide you with feedback and guidance.
Fortunately, there's a much faster way.
Advanced PowerPoint for Consultants is a premium course designed to take intermediate-level PowerPoint users and turn them into consultant-level experts. With concise lectures, hands-on exercises, and downloadable resources, this course will teach you to build slides like a McKinsey, Bain, or BCG consultant.
Whether you're currently a consultant, planning to become a consultant, or just interested in how management consultants use PowerPoint, this course will give you the tools, training, and resources you need to build slides like a Pro.
COURSE RESOURCES
- Consulting Slide Checklist - This checklist provides a comprehensive list of slide-making best practices, designed specifically for the consulting industry. Use it on the job or as a reference as you complete the course.
- Top 50 PowerPoint Shortcuts for Consultants - Download the full list of shortcuts and watch the accompanying video to understand how to apply each shortcut.
- Course Summary - Use the comprehensive course summary as a guide as you take the course, or as a reference to use throughout your career as you build slides.
- Shortcut Quizzes - After each section you'll find a shortcut quiz that covers each of the shortcuts that were mentioned in that section.
COURSE SECTIONS
- Speed and Productivity - See how to customize your setup to maximize your speed within PowerPoint, and learn pro tips for tripling your productivity that go beyond simple keyboard shortcuts.
- Advanced Slide Construction - Learn how to correctly build a slide by mastering PowerPoint shapes, the foundational elements of all consulting slides. Then take your skills to the next level by learning how to align, group, distribute, and layer objects on a slide.
- Slide Design and Visualization - Understand how consultants visualize data using color, icons, pictures, charts, and tables. Plus learn industry secrets for data visualization that will shave hours off your week.
- Deck Management - This section is packed with useful tips for building, checking, finalizing, and sharing your presentation. Plus learn tricks for projecting your presentation that will blow your audience away.
- Bonus: Consulting Fundamentals - If you're a new or prospective consultant, start with our consulting fundamentals section where you'll learn the what, why, and how of PowerPoint for consultants. If you're an experienced consultant, feel free to skip this section.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Are your courses just for new consultants?
This course is designed with intermediate-level PowerPoint users in mind, whether they are new to consulting, long-time consultants, or just business professionals looking to learn how to use PowerPoint more efficiently.
Why can't I just learn PowerPoint on the job?
In consulting, everyone will eventually become really good at PowerPoint. The problem is, it takes most people 3-5 years of trial and error to reach that level. This course is specifically designed to help consultants jump this learning curve and start their careers as highly-skilled PowerPoint users.
What makes this course different from the many other PowerPoint courses?
This course is designed specifically for the consulting industry. The principles, tools, and hacks I cover were selected by former consultants from top-tier consulting firms, and cover exactly what you need to know. No learning about useless PowerPoint features such as transitions, animations, or clip-art.
I am already good at PowerPoint. Why do I need this course?
I assume you have already used PowerPoint extensively. This course is specifically designed to take you from intermediate user to consulting-level expert by focusing on the principles, tips, and tricks used by experienced consultants at the world's best firms.
Who this course is for:
- Business professionals who want to learn how top consulting firms use PowerPoint
- Future consultants who want to hit the ground running on day one
- Current consultants who want to learn the industry's best tips, tricks, and hacks
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