The Administration Consulting Discussion Structure

This write-up top management consulting firms talks about the Consulting Presentation Framework. All business strategy and also administration consulting firms, such as McKinsey, Bain, BCG, and also Booz Allen, make use of discussion structures. Mostly, they are all variants of the exact same ideas and layout. Considering that getting in touch with companies are well-known for creating structured as well as beautiful slides, the Consulting Presentation Framework represents the ideal method to framework as well as present your information in the form of a PowerPoint presentation.

It includes extremely particular policies for typeface deals with, font dimensions, sort of grammar guidelines to adhere to, and so forth. If absolutely nothing else, embracing and consistently staying with the structure will greatly enhance the appearance as well as professionalism and reliability of your slides.

For many years, I have actually stumbled upon a variety of different of these discussion structures from the different companies I helped. Borrowing from all of them, the structure provided in this write-up is an amalgamation of the parts I felt functioned finest.

Currently, let's dig in.

On a common material slide, there are 3 core elements: the Headline, the Body, as well as the Bumper.

The Headline

The Headline rests on top of the slide. It is a sentence that introduces the slide. Lots of people utilize this room for the 'title' of the slide. In this framework, the 'title' will certainly go into the Body (explained in the following part).

The Headline needs to be Arial Narrow, font size 24, and also boldfaced. Do not make use of any finishing punctuation (e.g. no period).

As discussed, it is a sentence and 1 sentence max. It is additionally not to go beyond 2 lines. If you locate it to be longer, after that reword and also shorten your Headline. If the Headline is any type of longer than 2 lines, your audience will certainly obtain shed and/or burnt out. As you go from slide to slide, the sentences in the Headlines need to attach to inform a natural tale for your target market to follow.

The Body

The Body is the bulk of the slide. It has all the vivid material (e.g. textboxes, layouts, and so on). Everything you place in the Body ought to build upon what has actually been presented in the Headline. All message within the Body need to be Arial font style. The minimum font dimension to use is dimension 10, due to the fact that any kind of dimension smaller (utilizing Arial) is too difficult to read for many people. This is specifically true if you are forecasting your presentation.

On the leading left of your Body, you ought to have the Title of your slide. The Title is exactly what individuals typically put in the Headline area. It's a short phrase that classifies just what the Body is highlighting. Instances include '6-Phase Approach,' 'Objectives of the E-Book,' 'Strategic Hierarchies and also Related Challenges.' As you saw, the capitalization adheres to that of a book title (each the MLA). The Title should be Arial, font dimension 16, boldfaced, and also italicized.

If you have any type of numbers or any type of information on your slide that has to be sourced, be sure to do it. The source ought to show up in a message box on the reduced left of the Body. It needs to be Arial, font dimension 10, and also begin with the text "Source:". Consultants use number of different techniques as well as frameworks to structure and also layout content for the Body. We will not talk about these other trainings within this write-up.

The Bumper

All consulting firms have this last part, however may call it different names. Deloitte & Touche calls it the Take-Away, A.T. Kearny calls it the Tombstone, as well as Capgemini Consulting calls it the Kicker.

The objective of the Bumper is to address the "so just what?" question your target market could have. Whereas the Headline gave an intro and also context to the slide, and the Body decorated upon that message with making clear information, numbers, representations, etc, you risk of your target market thinking, Okay, this information is fascinating, however so what? Why do I need to recognize this? Why should I care?

Those are all fair questions and ones you must address with the Bumper. If you can not think of anything meaningful to put in the Bumper, ask yourself if you actually have to have this slide in the deck. To puts it simply, if the slide doesn't offer any additional idea that's vital for your viewers to recognize, why include all of it? Certainly, there are many legitimate reasons to have a slide without a Bumper. For instance, the slide merely offers the agenda, is a transitional slide, or only is to give crucial contact information. Often, they glide is simply to present raw information.