Hi there,

1) Think like a story

If I were telling this persona story, how would I do it? What would be the leading sentences to each paragraph? Does the sentence before and the sentence after make sence?

2) Write leading titles - "We have identified x" or "X value has resulted in y"

3) Be concise - Less is more. Work to keep your words sharp and succinct

4) Come back later - Write it, then come back later to try and re-write it better!

5) Read it outloud - Read the title + content outloud. See if it takes too long, is wordy, doesn't make sense, etc.

6) Print it out - this lets you read it with new eyes. Physcologically, your brain will treat it as new material. This will let you catch when you're written poorly or not directly

Hello!

Same here, I am not a native speaker either and this is one of the things that used to torture me when I got into consulting.

In my personal experience, it gets better with time. Practicing is the best way of improving here, on top of getting plenty of feedback from seniors or people who do it very well.

On top, reading good and well-structured English can help you a lot, I would recommend The Economist.

Hope it helps!

Cheers,

Clara

Hi there,

Good of you for thinking ahead - being able to be concise and straight to the point is a very important skill for consultants.

This skill takes a bit of time to perfect, you won't be able to crack it by reading about it. So be ready to have your slides Action Titles be demolished in your first couple attempts, it's normal :)

What I recommend is to read a bit about the Pyramid principle and as Antonello said "Say it with charts" is also a very good resource.

Best of luck

Khaled

Dear A,

Totally agree with Robert!

Copywriting skills will help you to help you both to make nice titles and better formulation of your ideas.

And of course, it's not useless to mention such a book as "The Pyramid Principle: Logic in Writing and Thinking" by Barbara Minto. It helps you to make your content more structure and logical, that eventually brings you to the ability to make crafting titles. Because title is a sumum bonum of your content. If the content is chaotic, than your title willn't be catchy and to the point.

Hope it helps,

Best,

André

Hello,

Are you already working in a consulting firm ? If yet, you can leverage your manager to the maximum to progress and request regular feedback. However, improving communication in slides is a development axis for 99% of the consultants (nobody is perfect on this :)). If you are not yet working in consulting, you can try to read presentations published by the MBB on Linkedin for example. This will give you a good idea of ​​good practices to replicate.

David

Hi,
I strongly recommend reading "Say it with charts", the Bible in consulting to better structure communication and synthesis in slides

Best,
Antonello