咨询顾问经典培训.pptVIP

LOGICAL THINKING AS A CONSULTANT DURING THE COURSE OF A STUDY TEAMS ARE CONTINUALLY MOVING FROM THINKING TO DOING DATA VS INFORMATION WHAT IS DATA? WHAT IS LOGIC? IN A BROAD SENSE, ALL WRITTEN PIECES ARE LOOSELY STRUCTURED IN THE FORM OF A PYRAMID ALL ELEMENTS OF EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION ARE FOUNDED ON ONE SIMPLE PRINCIPLE … WHAT IS THE COMMON PERSPECTIVE OF OUR AUDIENCES ? BUT, IN CONVENTIONALLY STRUCTURED DOCUMENTS CONCLUSIONS ARE BURIED AT THE ENDS OF SECTIONS THE LOGICAL PYRAMID IS THE BEST STRUCTURE FOR PRESENTING INFORMATION-BASED MATERIAL CREATING A LOGICAL STRUCTURE FRAMEWORK TO TEST THE SOUNDNESS OF YOUR PYRAMID STRUCTURE Are the groupings at each level mutually exclusive ? Does each summary point completely and validly summarise the components of the group below it ? Do the components of each group interrelate logically i.e. either ... ... as a list of reasons, steps, pieces of evidence etc or ... a chain of ideas that leads to a “therefore” conclusion IN LOGICAL STRUCTURES THE HEADINGS ARTICULATE THE KEY CONCLUSIONS WITHIN EACH PARTICULAR SECTION THE LOGIC PYRAMID FOR PLANT NO. 7 HOW TO CONSTRUCT A POWERFUL PYRAMID LOGIC THE LEAD THOUGHT SHOULD DIRECTLY ADDRESS THE QUESTION WHICH GENERATED THE PROJECT/MODULE THERE ARE TWO FORMS OF REASONING TO APPLY (I) THERE ARE TWO FORMS OF REASONING TO APPLY (II) CONCLUSIONS AT EACH LEVEL MUST COMPLETELY AND VALIDLY SUMMARISE THE MATERIAL LYING BELOW THEM LEARNINGS FOR RESULTING STRUCTURE OF PRESENTATIONS CREATING HIGH IMPACT PYRAMID STRUCTURES IN YOUR DECKSMany Views - One Humble Manager’s Point of View “Go into seclusion and think deep thoughts” Who is your target audience (think also about the cultural setting) What is the message you want to convey (e.g. to convince, to motivate, to report out) What is the best way to get the message across (e.g., analogies, tricks, presentation effects) Write the story early Do not get lost in the data jungle Formulate your key hypotheses, write just titles, no slides Keep