Tactics To Create Impressive PowerPoint Decks In Hours, Not Days

Learning the toolbox is the grand promise from prestigious management consultancies like McKinsey, Boston Consulting Group and Bain. Wide-eyed college seniors are torn between pursuing their passions or spending a few years as a consultant to learn slide-making, Excel modeling and so-called problem-solving. I was one such senior and chose to start my career at McKinsey. Here’s what I learned about slide-making: <h1>1. Know Your Audience</h1> A meeting with a CEO needs a different slide deck than a meeting with designers. And one group of designers, with their own personalities and subculture, might need a different deck than another group of designers. <h1>2. Know — Feel — Do</h1> What do you want your audience to know, feel, and do based on your meeting or presentation? Beginners focus just on know, while intermediates include both know and do. Masters, however, emphasize how they want the audience to feel. <h1>3. Presenting ≠ Discussing</h1> McKinsey slides are often text dense, violating every rule you’ve learned about using large font and minimizing text. Such dense slides are designed for discussions, not for presenting to large groups. Know what you’re aiming for. <a href="https://betterhumans.pub/tactics-to-create-impressive-powerpoint-decks-in-hours-not-days-4bc491c6ba56">Website</a>