Consulting Delivery: Slides, Storylining & Client Skills is a structured track of 13 lessons that build a complete, interview-ready understanding of the topic. Work through them in order, then use the quiz and flashcards in each lesson to revise.
What this course covers
- What Good Consulting Output Looks Like - The standard a deliverable is judged against, with annotated examples.
- Storylining: Building an Argument Before Building Slides - Writing the argument as sentences first, so the deck writes itself.
- The Pyramid Principle Applied to Real Documents - Answer first, then grouped support, attributed to its original source.
- Writing Action Titles That Carry the Message - Titles that state a finding, so the deck reads without the presenter.
- Slide Design: One Message, One Chart, No Clutter - Layout, emphasis and what to delete, with before-and-after slides.
- Choosing the Right Exhibit for the Argument - Matching chart type to the claim being made, and avoiding decorative charts.
- Building a Steering Committee Deck - Structuring a governance update that gets a decision made.
- Client Interviews and Getting Real Information - Preparing, asking and listening so you learn what is not in the data.
- Workshops, Facilitation & Building Client Buy-In - Designing a session that produces a decision rather than a discussion.
- Managing Difficult Stakeholders and Disagreement - Handling resistance, hidden agendas and a client who disputes your finding.
- Project Management, Workplans & Managing Upwards - Workplanning, updating a manager well, and flagging a problem early.
- Using AI to Draft, Critique & Tighten a Deck - Using AI as a first reviewer of your storyline, with what it consistently misses.
- Applied: Turning an Analysis into a Ten-Slide Story - One analysis converted into a full storyline and slide skeleton.