Think Like A Strategy Consultant – StrategyU

Besides being incredibly successful in their chosen domains, they each spent time at McKinsey, Bain & Company or Boston Consulting Group early in their careers. Here is Indra Nooyi, the former CEO of Pepsi

“I don’t think I could have gotten here without a strategy consultant background because it taught me inductive thinking. It taught me how to think of the problem in micro terms but also to zoom out and put the problem in the context of its broader environment and then zoom back in to solve the problem”

While he didn’t follow a traditional path after consulting, here is what 10-time Grammy award-winning John Legend said about the experience:

“I learned a lot. I met a lot of great people, I’m still friends with a lot of those folks, too. I think it just ups your level of expectation for the kind of business you want to work with. And how you work in teams, how you come to good decisions as a team, and I think all of those things helped me in my career, as a musician.”

My personal mission with this course is to help high-performers learn the fundamental mindsets, skills & frameworks without having to make a major career change to work in strategy consulting.

A Four-Week Learning Journey Week 1

• Module #1 – Consulting Mindset: Introduction to the basic consulting mindsets, mental models & consulting process

Week 2

• Module #2 – MECE Mind: The powerful framework to help you sharpen your thinking
• Module #3 – From Information To Insight: Introduction to the pyramid principle and synthesizing & organizing complex information
• Assignment: Consulting services MECE assignment & mock chief of staff research assignment

Week 3

• Module #4 – Real World Problem Solving: Using MECE, Pyramid Principle and hypothesis tools to break down real-world problems into problems that can be solved
• Assignment: Using SCQA & issue tress in a real-life Facebook strategy case study

Week 4

• Module #5 – Kick-Ass Presentations: Learn the PowerPoint secrets of strategy consultants, master flow & understand how to craft your message to different audiences
• Module #6 – Beyond Consulting Presentations: Creating Memorable & Persuasive Content: Implement tools from cognitive neuroscience and other disciplines to create memorable messages
• Assignment: Create a four-page PowerPoint presentation implementing the principles taught in the course on any topic & get one round of feedback from Paul

Course Outcomes

• Understand and communicate in the “language” of strategy consultants
• Be able to understand the difference between the symptom and a problem
• Understand how to take a large set of complex data, facts & analysis and synthesize it
• Organize a presentation in a clear, simple & persuasive way that inspires action
• Have increased confidence in your ability to lead and structure complex projects

THIS COURSE INCLUDES

• LIFETIME ACCESS TO THE COURSE
• 2+ hours of lecture content and 25+ lectures
• Simple and easy to understand lectures on MECE, Pyramid Principle, Issue Trees, Problem Solving, Slide Design, Storytelling, PowerPoint and Persuasion
• A fun exercise to help you improve your ability to synthesize & structure
• An in-depth real-world case exercise on Facebook’s shift from desktop to mobile
• Multiple challenging assignments that will enable you to put this principles into practice

You will be able to ask questions to other students, DM Paul and post your exercises for feedback from other students +Additional Bonus Content

• Bonus Content: 100+ PowerPoint Template Slides that you will actually use ($49 Value)
• Bonus Content: video on 14 PowerPoint Hacks For Making Slides

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Your Instructor

Paul Millerd

Paul is an experienced consultant with experience from McKinsey & Boston Consulting Group. He has worked in the consulting industry for over 10 years and is obsessed with breaking down the core concepts he learned in consulting and teaching them to others. He has helped build consulting skills training programs at multiple clients and coaches an undergraduate consulting group at the University of Connecticut, where mentoring and training efforts have helped students get hired for analyst roles at McKinsey, Bain, and BCG. At Boston Consulting Group, he was part of the faculty and helped develop content and lead trainings globally. To learn more about his experience and work: LinkedIn or Boundless

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