Essential PowerPoint for Management Consultants & Analysts (Udemy.com)

What is the aim of this course?

In consulting, you will be spending plenty of time browsing through documents and doing calculations in Excel to estimate the impact of potential improvements. However, in the end, you have to produce a presentation that you can show to your customers. That is why it’s essential to master PowerPoint. This skill will help you finish your work on time. In this course, I will teach how to produce fast and efficiently slides in PowerPoint during consulting projects.

In the course you will learn the following things:

1. How to create slides from scratch

2. How to be fast and efficient in PowerPoint

3. How to create simple and intermediate animations in PowerPoint

4. How to create charts in Excel

5. How to create charts in PowerPoint

6. How to create or modify templates

7. How to animate charts in PowerPoint

This course is based on my 15 years of experience as a consultant in top consulting firms and as a Board Member responsible for strategy, performance improvement, and turn-arounds in the biggest firms from Retail, FMCG, SMG, B2B, and services sectors that I worked for. I have carried out or supervised over 90 different performance improvement projects in different industries that generated in a total of 2 billion in additional EBITDA. On the basis of what you will find in this course, I have trained in person over 100 consultants, business analysts, and managers who now are Partners in PE and VC funds, Investment Directors and Business Analysts in PE and VC, Operational Directors, COO, CRO, CEO, Directors in Consulting Companies, Board Members, etc. On top of that my courses on Udemy were already taken by more than 300 000 students including people working in EY, Walmart, Booz Allen Hamilton, Adidas, Naspers, Alvarez & Marsal, PwC, Dell, Walgreens, Orange, and many others.

I teach through case studies, so you will have a lot of lectures showing examples of analyses, and tools that we use. To every lecture, you will find attached (in additional resources) the Excels as well as additional presentations, and materials shown in the lectures so as a part of this course you will also get a library of ready-made analyses that can, with certain modifications, be applied by you or your team in your work.

Why have I decided to create this course?

During consulting projects, you will spend up to half of your time in PowerPoint creating slides. That’s why it’s vital to use PowerPoint fast and efficiently. Once you master tricks and hacks that will help you do the slides much faster, you can spend more time understanding the business and building relationships with the customers. This, in turn, will help you get promotions much faster. Most firms, don’t give you the full toolbox that you need. This may lead to huge frustration during consulting projects and a lot of inefficiencies.

Therefore, I have decided to create this course that will help students learn essential PowerPoint or refresh their knowledge of PowerPoint. We will concentrate on the things you need during consulting projects. The course will give you the knowledge and insight into real-life case studies that will make your life during a consulting project much easier. Thanks to this course, you will work much faster with PowerPoint and produce better, more consistent slides.

To sum it up, I believe that if you want to become a world-class Management Consultant or Business Analyst you have to have pretty good at PowerPoint. That is why, I highly recommend this course to Management Consultants or Business Analysts, especially those who did not finish business school or Economics. The course will help you, master PowerPoint, on the level of McKinsey, BCG, Bain, and other top consulting firms.

In what way will you benefit from this course?

The course is a practical, step-by-step guide loaded with tons of analyses, tricks, and hints that will significantly improve the speed with which you understand, and analyze businesses. There is little theory – mainly examples, a lot of tips from my own experience as well as other notable examples worth mentioning. Our intention is that thanks to the course you will learn:

1. How to create slides from scratch

2. How to be fast and efficient in PowerPoint

3. How to create simple and intermediate animations in PowerPoint

4. How to create charts in Excel

5. How to create charts in PowerPoint

6. How to create or modify templates

7. How to animate charts in PowerPoint

You can also ask me any question either through the discussion field or by messaging me directly.

How the course is organized?

The course is currently divided into the following sections:

• Introduction. We begin with a little introduction to the course as well as some general info on how the course is organized

• Essentials. In this section, we will discuss how to do basic things in Excel like inserting slides, aligning objects, inserting objects, bringing and sending objects, and using smart art.

• Animations. In this brief section, I will show you how to do different types of animations. We will use not only basic animation but also the animation of charts and through the transition.

• Templates. In consulting, you will be using a lot of templates. In this section, I will show you how to create and modify them.

• Essential Charts in Excel. In this section, I will show you how to insert and edit great charts in Excel. This will help us, later on, repeat it in PowerPoint.

• How to create charts in PowerPoint. In the last section, I will show you how to create and modify charts in PowerPoint. We will use a lot of concepts that we have learned from Excel.

You will be able also to download many additional resources

1. Templates and libraries of slides

2. Additional resources

3. Links to additional presentations, articles, and movies

At the end of my course, students will be able to…

1. How to create fast and efficiently slides in PowerPoint during consulting projects

2. How to move, copy, and rearrange objects in PowerPoint

3. How to create animation in PowerPoint

4. Hot to create charts in Excel