Building a Strategy Update Presentation

by David Tracy

Building an effective business presentation is one of the most important skills in the corporate world. The widespread adoption of presentations spans across roles, industries, and geographies. Whether you’re a college intern or a c-level executive, you will need to create effective business presentations that engage your audience and effectively communicate your messages.Yet, many people find the task of creating a business presentation a daunting task. For most, this emotion is due to lack of a strong foundation in presentation development. They are not familiar with the frameworks, methodologies, and structured thinking others employ to craft a storyline and then design the individual slides aesthetically and intuitively. This book, as well as others in the Business Presentation Guru Series, will help you gain those skills. Each book in the series will walk you through the creation of a different business presentation, showing you, slide by slide, the design and thought process. Each presentation will showcase new tricks and technique used in presentation development. In this book, we will develop a presentation to capture the status of a company’s execution against its business strategy. In our hypothetical situation, our company has already defined its strategic vision and corresponding goals for the fiscal year. Its corporate strategy has been published and communicated out to the organization. As such, business units have defined specific strategic initiatives, supporting the company's strategy and goals, and have begun executing them. The purpose of our business presentation is to capture the business unit-level initiatives and statuses of these initiatives. Through the course of this book, a number of illustrative slides will be presented. All such slides will be made available for free download. Over 50 slides in all, across all free PowerPoint downloads.The presentation style used is based on the Consulting Presentation Framework. The Consulting Presentation Framework is a set of design, formatting, and grammatical guidelines for creating a business presentation, developed and practiced by leading management consulting firms. If you're unfamiliar with this concept, don't worry. There's a chapter in this book dedicated to this methodology.

29 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 8, 2011

About the author

David William Tracy was an American Catholic theologian and priest. He was the Andrew Thomas Greeley and Grace McNichols Greeley Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Catholic Studies at the University of Chicago Divinity School. In 2020 he was elected to the American Philosophical Society.