Paul Millerd -Think Like A Strategy Consultant

StrategyU

Consider yourself a strategy consultant.

An online course that will teach you top-tier strategy consultants’ tools, mindsets, and principles.

Here’s a little known fact that no one will tell you:

It’s much easier to hire former strategy consultants to run your business than it is to promote from within.

Why?

People who work for consulting firms are taught to think like CEOs. Every piece of data is scrutinized in light of the question, “Why is this important to the company?”

So, what now?

Former consultants who join organizations in diverse industries play a different game than the rest of us. They see the big picture and do not become locked in their jobs.

I want to teach you strategy consulting’s tools, frameworks, and secrets so you can:

Get Away From Middle Management

Don’t get caught up in being busy rather than getting promoted. I want to assist you in developing the abilities necessary to become the team’s go-to guy.

Persuade and influence senior executives

The organization’s highest echelons need to know what they’re looking at, why it matters, and what they should do next. I’ll assist you in learning the language.

Create a system for producing excellent work.

Companies care more about getting things done than about growing. I’ll show you how to approach your job in a “process” that will help you improve over time.

This course was created to assist people in learning and applying these skills right away

(and hence you will not be required to work 80-hour weeks in the sector)

This course is designed for:

Leaders in strategy, finance, and analytics are actively shaping the future of their firm, solving complicated problems, and delivering executive-level presentations.

Senior Executives: Those who wish to learn how to establish a plan, communicate with senior leaders and boards, and develop a vision with more confidence.

Freelance Consultants: Those who have never worked for a major consulting firm but who work with customers on data-intensive or information-heavy projects.

Students or recent graduates looking to improve their professional communication and problem-solving skills (this is not a good fit for case practice)

“This course aided in my promotion!” It provides a platform for clearly and concisely communicating complicated business concerns. I wish I had discovered MECE sooner.”

Sales Strategy Consultant Andrew K.

How Do $500k+ A Month Consulting Firms Charge?

It all starts with some basic (but difficult to grasp) ideas…

The Pyramid Theory

Learn how to organize your thoughts so that you may make appealing arguments.

MECE

Learn how to make ideas more memorable and appealing by simplifying them.

Storytelling with PowerPoint

Learn how to create PowerPoint presentations that don’t make people sleepy.

Indra Nooyi on How Consulting Aided Her in Becoming PepsiCo CEO

“I don’t think I could have gotten here without my history as a strategy consultant, which taught me inductive thinking.” It taught me how to think about a problem in micro terms while simultaneously zooming out to put it in the context of its larger environment before zooming back in to fix it.”

Course Organization

A Four-Week Learning Experience With Difficult Weekly Assignments

Week 1: Introduction and Mentality

Module 1: Consulting Mindset: Overview of basic consulting mindsets, mental models, and the consulting process.

Week 2: Synthesize and Organize

Module 2 – MECE Mind: A great framework for improving your thinking

Module #3 – From Data to Insight: An overview of the pyramid principle and how to synthesize and organize complex data

Consulting services are the task. Mock chief of staff research assignment and MECE assignment

Week 3: Problem Solving in the Real World

Module #4 – Real-World Problem Solving: Breaking down real-world problems into problems that can be solved using MECE, the Pyramid Principle, and hypothesis tools.

Assignment: A real-life Facebook strategy case study using SCQA and problem tress

Week 4: Powerful Presentations and Storytelling

Module #5: Powerful Presentations Master flow and understand how to design your message for diverse audiences by learning the PowerPoint secrets of strategy consultants.

Module #6: Creating Memorable and Persuasive Content: Beyond Consulting Presentations: To produce memorable communications, use technologies from cognitive neuroscience and other fields.

You will be given an incomplete 19-page presentation with missing material as your assignment. Fill in the blanks with missing information, titles, and other content, and create a clear tale based on the lessons.

Four Difficult Assignments

You will receive an assignment as well as suggested responses each week. These will take you 1-2 hours or more each week, and if you take them seriously, you will get the most out of the course. (See below for personalized input.)

MECE Assignment: Redesign a consulting firm’s service offerings so that the MECE principle is applied.

In your role as Chief of Staff, synthesize interviews, research, and survey findings for an upcoming meeting with your CEO.

Problem Statement and Issue Tree for a Facebook Case Study: Create a hypothesis Issue Tree for a Facebook case study.

Complete a PowerPoint presentation that was left unfinished for a business case competition

“This course is a great place to start if you want to think more critically about what and how you want to communicate with your audience.” This course is packed with useful tools and case studies that will help you develop snappy, interesting, and persuasive presentations.”