PowerPoint Storytelling: How McKinsey, Bain and BCG create compelling presentations

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Learn how top consulting firms like McKinsey, Bain, and BCG turn boring PowerPoint presentations into engaging stories using the Pyramid Principle and the SCQA framework (Situation, Complication, Question, Answer). In this video, you'll see how to tell a story with your presentation, and why putting structure around your deck can make all the difference in the effectiveness of your slides.
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*This video draws heavily on the book "The Pyramid Principle" by Barbara Minto to explain the Pyramid Principle and the SCQA framework. If you are interested in a deeper dive on the topic, we highly recommend you read her book.
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@AnalystAcademy Жыл бұрын

Don't forget to check out our advanced presentation design course! --> www.theanalystacademy.com/advanced-presentations-for-consultants/

@jehanr Жыл бұрын

Love how he goes INCEPTION at the end!! Structure to explain the structure.

@timgerber5563 Жыл бұрын

Plus, from an instructional design point of view it also serves as a reinforcing summary. Genius!

@domm1341 Жыл бұрын

Good video presentation. I’m also reminded of the following mantra when speaking to an audience: 1. Tell them what you’re going to tell them. 2. Tell them. 2. Tell them what you’ve told them.

@ians7929 Жыл бұрын

Never ever do this

@DjIngenio 6 ай бұрын

In general, that's the structure of this video ;) @@ians7929

@TheUrbanEpicure 6 ай бұрын

Yeah, that works for school projects, in college and maybe at a TED talk, but corporate, senior, intellectually strong audiences will be annoyed (best case) or offended (worst case) by your repetitions.

@rouvenrouven5037 5 ай бұрын

Then you might haven't done it properly. It's nothing more than a universal structure of beginning, middle and ending. Bu't its also nothing less. Universal and useful for presentation, because it reminds you to make a clear introduction focussed on an aim and to have an end with a clear conclusion.. But you've also cat to add a catchy opener wich makes a clear transition to the key questions wich are focussed on the problems of your audience, provides a key message wich leads into your suggestion... and your conclusion about the whole presentation and your appeal. , key questions, messages and everything else... @@TheUrbanEpicure

@labitx Жыл бұрын

As someone who works on projects that have different stakeholders that needs slightly different updates and messaging to suit their objective in my projects, it's really great to see the structure being laid clear to me that I have 'realised' over years of mistakes. How I wished I have learnt this as a start.

@deepakthakur9536 2 жыл бұрын

Not sure why you dont have large no of Views Paul . Your content and narrative are the best .

@winargilang3243 2 жыл бұрын

This is it. Finally I found the link between SCQA, Pyramid, and sliding story board. Thank you very much for creating this content

@leonidas7692 2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely. Been reading McK Mind and Way but after going through Pyramid I too looked for the link. This is it.

@victorbond73 Жыл бұрын

I am slowly getting into strategy consulting, and your content is reeeeaaaaly helpful!!! Thank you for that!

@judyl.7811 Жыл бұрын

0:10 not just formatting and design, but the story they tell. --> takeways, insights, narrative. 1:20 two important concepts: the SCQA framework: situation, complication, question, and answer. the pyramid principle. 2:20 complication: a change in situaiton (why presentation is needed) 3:15 OER: open resource education. 3:50 however, is the clue that complication is coming. 5:50 provide granular detail. 6:10 how you turn a question into building a slidedeck. this is soooo brilliant. 6:30 however, there are many factors influencing the final version deck, not to mention, executive summary, next steps, and appendix.

@maepurple9796 Ай бұрын

Amazing summary🎉

@pksteffen Жыл бұрын

Nicely done. Structure is key to efficiency and clarity and this is a clear explanation for one approach. To get to the next level you need a visual strategy that creates synergy between pictures and words even for a simplified narrative approach like this one.

@BuddyLuv 10 ай бұрын

I have very little presentation experience and have to pull one together for a big meeting. This video took me from feeling overwhelmed by not knowing what point to start from to feeling at ease and believing I can create a solid presentation. Thanks so much for making it easy and helping me get on track.

@arieheinrich3457 Жыл бұрын

Its interesting that i have never heard or read about SCQA as a concept but over the years its exactly how i create my own presentation. Naturally some of it is from reading and seeing other presentations and some as a logical way of making the ideas more understood by others.

@steph_ak Жыл бұрын

Would be great if you did a video on the Executive Summary and Next Steps/Recommendation Slide? Basically, how to start and finish your deck strong especially if you will use it as a backdrop in a live presentation. Thank you for content so far, I learnt a lot/formalised what I been doing subconsciously 🤗

@loidadumaguin3457 9 ай бұрын

The video is clear, easy-to-follow, and actionable.

@terrytraylor874 Жыл бұрын

I normally don’t comment but this presentation was absolutely outstanding. Subscribing right now!!!

@mastervibz9858 Жыл бұрын

I think you nailed it. The best way to have demonstrated the concepts was to show how you used it even in this presentation. Thanks for sharing this knowledge

@DrawifyCreates 7 ай бұрын

Fascinating insights! Thanks for shedding light on this crucial skill! 💯

@rioafriyanto5208 Жыл бұрын

Love how he "trapped" us in this video under his SCQA genjutsu. I listen to this video again to ensure my just-completed slide deck meets with the SCQA and pyramid principle. Now i need to practice delivering the presentation with good narrative flow.

@SlideFormation Жыл бұрын

Very insightful points. I use the pyramid structure a bit differently, but I like your framework very much. Great video!

@nixmamd Жыл бұрын

Great video summarizing the key principles! One important advantage of applying the pyramid principle is that you are quite flexible when working with your deck. From my experience people will just accept most of the things you present them and will believe them. No need to go to the lowest level there. But there will be a couple of topics where they want the deep dive and might challenge your takeaways. The pyramid principle helps to have slides prepared for the high level brush over it situations and the detailed discussion over one key point that your audience sees as most critical.

@vibradphone Жыл бұрын

Exemplary: concise, clear, effective & inspiring. I will try to tweak my current approach to incorporate these structures! Thanks for sharing!

@aanubhavgupta 9 ай бұрын

Insightful and very practical !

@Esbbbb Жыл бұрын

I thought I was good at making PowerPoint presentations, but dam I was wrong. Then I watched this video. Today, I had to present in 5 minutes a research project to some of our company managers. I had 5 mins?! I thought how the hell am I going to get this done... But I did this, sent the material as pre-reading and hoped for the best. Today I had the presentation, and I think I nailed it. I didn't go overtime and I covered all the major points although I had to take some huge shortcuts. I still left the text and points there since I had sent the material to them, so they are then able to later check it again. Thanks for this guide, I will surely utilize this more in the future!

@AnalystAcademy Жыл бұрын

Nice work! Thanks for sharing!

@jhanvee007 2 ай бұрын

Beautiful video! Thank you for your value addition.

@deweywsu Жыл бұрын

Brilliant breakdown of something I've seen many times from consultants, but couldn't ever figure out how they could get to so well. Thank you!

@AnalystAcademy Жыл бұрын

Thank you!!

@joyluo6394 2 жыл бұрын

Easy and clear! It reminds me of the book: Understand by Design 🙌🙌🙌👍👍👍💯💯💯

@st.toussaint4632 26 күн бұрын

This was really good and thanks for the inception moment. It all came full circle.

@kaizenenterprise1397 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for insightful content!! Keep going on a good work.

@omiiftikhar6688 Жыл бұрын

This is probably my first ever comment on a YT vid but man your work is AWESOME!!! Not only does it provide specific insights into what i am looking for, but it does it in a way that is super compelling and to the point. LOVE LOVE your work mate. Keep it up.

@AnalystAcademy Жыл бұрын

Wow what a comment! Thank you!!

@lizandvk Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much! The content was easily actioned and helped me to understand the structure underlying my presentation!

@chiragpradhan 9 ай бұрын

Thank you, Paul. This was insightful and easy to understand.

@phillipwilliams484 Жыл бұрын

SCQA, my first introduction to this concept. Using this in the Ph.D. program!

@blessing168 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for your sharing. The contents are inspiring and you present it clearly. Definitely want to try it out in my next presentation.

@annemaxwell9975 Жыл бұрын

So simple and supremely well taught.

@moseskim3942 5 ай бұрын

This video and channel is AWESOME. Thank you!

@Meelee424 9 ай бұрын

Thank you for helping me with an actionable slide set up for my upcoming PowerPoint presentation interview

@jeromesri8627 7 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for sharing. I find this very useful to clearly present ideas at work

@ProfessorFavoretto Жыл бұрын

Fantastic!!!! Easy to understand and apply!!! Thank you very much!!!

@johnraffensperger Жыл бұрын

I agree with your points about structure, but I would never put that many words on a slide

@rendibramantoro9364 9 ай бұрын

Love this video! thanks for share SCQA and pyramid concept with simple ways👍

@arunkarthikr4375 2 жыл бұрын

Quite good, quality content. Thanks!

@frank6848 Жыл бұрын

Simple, easy to understand and I believe it works

@somosagricultura Жыл бұрын

The framework SCQA sounds great for me, so, I'm going to implement in my presentations. Thanks for sharing.

@anyanov 9 ай бұрын

Excellent video. Learned so much about how to make presentations

@sveabryan9126 Жыл бұрын

I have no idea why this would pop up in my recommended clips, but I’m glad it did. Just subscribed.

@sumitguha1667 11 ай бұрын

Wow - I just love the way you made everything do easy

@razambuja Жыл бұрын

Great and clear presentation. I intend to follow your advices.

@AknEvns Жыл бұрын

Great video! Thanks for these valuable insights.

@allenabishek1478 10 ай бұрын

wow, what a captivating interesting presentation! you definitely know how to make boring ppts interesting using scqa framework and pyramid principle.

@kponly 8 ай бұрын

This was great. Easy to see how it can help me.

@datawithdami 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for this very easy to understand lesson.

@silvercloud5087 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing this. Solves a lot of presentation dilemma

@tigertigerp8371 Жыл бұрын

Hi Paul, thank you for this nice video. Very useful. A input from my end to yourself. The pyramid principle is also build up around the principle of Observations (at the bottom), Conclusion (second bottom) and Recommendations/Ideas (at top). Also I would argue that in the storyline you will put the SCQ first then the main idea and then the Supporting details "Conclusions". You can keep the Observations in appendix as supporting slide. Leaders are usually interested in conclusions and might ask to the details of the Conclusion, but not necessary interested in hearing them completely

@edwin6412 Жыл бұрын

Thanks Paul , I just shared the link with my daughter who's now a Biz analyst from Henley Business School. M sure this will be useful for her.

@user-cy9xx6sy8k 8 ай бұрын

Awesome video and actually putting it into practice! Thank you for this valuable content. :)

@AnalystAcademy 8 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

@rajdam99 Жыл бұрын

This is a classic example of byte size learning done well. Very good video!

@AnalystAcademy Жыл бұрын

Many thanks!

@user-ue9qd5gb3b 5 ай бұрын

thank you so much for helping me out in this situation

@KellyRVillanueva 9 ай бұрын

this was a wonderful video!!!

@lumoborteidoku 8 ай бұрын

Your video was indeed clear on message, easy to follow, and insightful, I'm running away with two new concepts... Thank you for sharing.

@AnalystAcademy 8 ай бұрын

Wonderful!

@PBR060661 Жыл бұрын

A good video. I learned both the main concepts over 25 years ago when I read Barbara Minto’s book “The Pyramid Principle”. I still refer to it if I’m struggling to structure a presentation, paper, letter, proposal.

@AnalystAcademy Жыл бұрын

Such a fantastic book!

@thepositivepoint Жыл бұрын

Thank you. Very well done and explained.

@oscarmonroy6337 5 ай бұрын

Thank You ! Wish us look in MBA presentations this year !

@RaymondWamalwa 8 ай бұрын

Great presentation, thanks!

@AnalystAcademy 8 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

@MRJV2 8 ай бұрын

Brilliant. Subscribed

@Davidkiania 11 ай бұрын

This is really well done and enjoyed it very much.

@mohemmedansari8664 Жыл бұрын

Loved your tips and suggestions. Though big sentences as header is the chosen style for consulting firms, it is not so in the corporates. How do we meet/balance the corporate's internal needs

@jerry-suhrstedt 6 ай бұрын

Oh yes, just what the doctor ordered. Thank you for this. Every PP presentation going forward I'll be using this framework. Your vid was clear and concise. Thank you!!

@ErwinPfuhler 8 ай бұрын

Thank you so much, this inspired me to beef up my next presentation!

@tommyharris2143 8 ай бұрын

Well done! I am sharing with my entire team.

@AnalystAcademy 8 ай бұрын

Awesome, thank you!

@theinspiringleader Жыл бұрын

This is very helpful. Thank you for sharing

@pacificmavani6786 Жыл бұрын

Thank you very much for sharing knowledge.

@momentswithdonald Жыл бұрын

Thank you for the video. It's really useful.

@ashaide Жыл бұрын

Very insightful, thank you.

@guilhermemonteiro3072 Жыл бұрын

Paul amazing video !! I recommend to all my friends

@danielbrito___ Жыл бұрын

great tips!!! thanks for sharing this!!!

@rabinrai5203 11 ай бұрын

I like that you applied what you were preaching on this video

@thesuit4820 Жыл бұрын

Another point on SCQA: the SCQ/intro slides content has almost certainly been pre-agreed, at least implicitly. It's a defensive structure in a commercial setting, in effect making sure the the vendor's material defines the scope and sets the terms by which it should be judged.

@thesavvyartist Жыл бұрын

It is essentially a client's brief.

@osheanlee Жыл бұрын

This is so awesome! Thanks for this :)

@cinthiacicilio Жыл бұрын

Great content and I loved the example suggesting a Disney park in Rio

@NdubisiOnuora 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome presentation!

@junebb131 Жыл бұрын

Brilliant, thank you!

@erp_consultancy 8 ай бұрын

Excellent presentation. I am subscribing to this channel

@AnalystAcademy 8 ай бұрын

Welcome! More videos to come...

@RonBarrett1954 Жыл бұрын

Hi Paul, quick question: Where do you see a slide deck fitting into a deliverable to a client? For example, is a deck of 27 slides the summary of a 250-page report?

@amandacastillo3372 2 жыл бұрын

Very clear and helpful

@rockingham8410 Жыл бұрын

Love your videos, thank you for making them. The SCQA framework is fantastic. I would love to see how it's applied to the intro section of the deck. In other words, if there are four slides for S, C, Q and A, what do those slides look like?

@AnalystAcademy Жыл бұрын

Thank you! I've most commonly seen the SCQ portion all on a single slide, with the A portion being spread out over the remainder of the presentation. I guess you could give them each their own slide (following the Pyramid Principle for each - main idea on top, supporting details below), but usually you want to put more emphasis on the "answer" portion of your deck and spend less time on the intro.

@andreasbott4753 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for the great video!

@Astadium Жыл бұрын

Extremely helpful thanks alot

@sekytwo 11 ай бұрын

You guys have awesome videos!

@user-hh2lq4bh4n 6 ай бұрын

Thank you! Very helpful topic. Charts and graphs are common these days in presentations. could you share pointers on effective persuasive communication using graphs? For example how to effectively explain insights of a performance statistics graph.

@mithunsahaxanderage Жыл бұрын

Awesome so simple yet powerful

@RowlandGosling 9 ай бұрын

Very helpful - thank you!

@JohnDeibler Жыл бұрын

This is so great!!

@fathaldinaljamal7740 6 күн бұрын

Thank you sir!

@DrSixpack1 Жыл бұрын

Very good video about presentations!

@Uday777 Жыл бұрын

this was amazing, thanks

@pc205jay Жыл бұрын

I watched this video this morning accidentally, I am so lucky

@febririjanur7860 Жыл бұрын

Very insightfull thanks for sharing

@swapnilsapkal2391 11 ай бұрын

Good video lot of clarity

@GamerAvi33 5 ай бұрын

Great. It was really useful. Also couldn't recognize this video used the same format explained until the end 😂

@christinelee5928 Жыл бұрын

thx so much I learned a lot

@guillaumeledique3401 Жыл бұрын

The I fully understand the concept, I have my reservations as to the purpose of the presentation as it "reads like a manual" One can give all parties present at a meeting this manual, yet the PPT should be used as additive slides to the manual--the "context of work" slide is a perfect example of Death By Powerpoint