How to create Storylines for Business Presentations (Consulting and PowerPoint skills)

Beautiful, thanks a lot

If you’re trying to do presentations like McKinsey, you’re doing presentations wrong. That’s assuming you want to help your clients get results. If you’re just looking to collect fees and rack up billable hours then by all means, follow the McKinsey model.

Consultants - not all, but 99,5% - are the most redundant job in the known universe.

Great style of delivering content and straight to the point.

very helpful
Thank you for sharing this,

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Very Informative. Thank u!!

My final round interview for a consultant role is to use data to tell a story. Time to study this video 😅

Hi Heinrich,

Can you please create more videos on storylining? This one was great like your other videos. Example: You got one problem statement from the client regarding product competitors' analysis. How would you proceed with that? You can also give more examples apart from competitors' analysis like partner identification, market sizing, etc. I want to understand the thought process that goes behind the creation of initial storylining, wireframes, and Mickey Mouse presentation

Thanks

This is extremely helpful!

Thank you. This was excellent.

Thank you for the tips. Will try and implement them.

Just a thought as I am in learning mode. Gain before action required??? 22 EUR mn EBIT potential in North America and Asia?

Great one

Thank you. This presentation was very useful. :)

Sub titles pleeeease

Another tip is: Don't include "CONFIDENTIAL" for a presentation that'll be seen by .5 mil people. Jokes aside, always great content Heinrich! Thanks!

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Very helpful I will try for my next presentation thanks

Thank you for your leadership on this initiative

I clicked for the information, but your accent kept me watching. I love it 😂

Excellent video and useful tips. Thank you for sharing.

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Very good, very helpful.
In a 13 min video you've giving me what I really need to improve my next presentation.
Thanks

Thanks Heinrich for sharing, seems small tips yet impactful 🌹

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Spot on..

What a legend. Love this channel

What a very interesting video. I could understand the message very well, and the examples were fantastic. Thanks for sharing these best practices, Heinrich. Very good quality video. o/

I'm working in an c level environment now after being in consulting for some and I am always amazed how many people are not doing this. Great video and shared amongst my colleagues. Thanks Heinrich!

Such great energy! Love it

Thanks for sharing! Many times, we tend to put slide titles 'more of Newspaper Eye Catcher style - Generic with potential to catch eyeballs'. Good to see that Action Titles help us summarize entire slide in a few words enabling possibly a quick decision making or information consumption...

Many thanks for this informative video!

Thanks for detailed explanation. You rock! I’m learning a lot with your videos!!! Regards from Brazil 🇧🇷…

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Summarizing my lessons:

1. Create a storyline that guides your audience through the presentation
2. Create concise and quantified action titles that effectively summarize the main message of the slide
3. Use tables and charts where possible
4. Ask yourself if the content on the slides is actually relevant, so what about this info is useful for your client?
5. Simple and straightforward graphics that get the message across is better than a presentation with fancy graphics but a loose message

Thank you for the interesting insight! I used action titles usually at the bottom of the slide as some kind of summary of the key message. I will try to use them at the top from now

Very concise and skilfully presented.
I checked my inbox in case there was already an invoice 👍.

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Well done.

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I worked for a VP and received feedback that I need actionable titles for each slide to tell a continuous story through the deck. Great tip and didn’t realise this was essential to storytelling

Using the McKinsey method I will send in a recent grad to go give my presentation for me.