Welcome Strategists, to your journey of growth and refinement!
This is your path to skill mastery and career development. Strengthen your foundation with the core trainings all strategists should have under their belt. Then, traverse into role-specific resources with tailored modules to elevate your insights and shape a future of strategic excellence.
FOUNDATIONS
We all start somewhere.
SENIOR Strategist
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Create a Good First Impression
Training Details: LAB, 50 min
Description: "You never get a second chance to make a first impression." A good first meeting sets a positive tone for your project and serves as a foundation for a strong working relationship. It also makes your client feel more connected and committed to the project, which in return helps you during your work. Learn how to give a solid introduction, share your understanding of the project, get to know the client, and set a path forward as you wrap up the meeting.
Tags: Emotional Intelligence
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Training Details: LAB, 18 min
Description: This lesson lays out best practices for working with Partners, including communicating with them, getting their time, and constructively pushing back.
Tags: Emotional Intelligence
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Create Conversation and Manage Challenges
Training Details: LAB, 40 min
Description: In this chapter, we will learn how to create engaging conversations that empower you to reach your presentation objectives. We will look at how this is done in three different settings, and how to address challenges such as answering tough questions.
Tags: Project Management, Emotional Intelligence
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More trainings to come!
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Powerpoint: Designing Better Slides
Training Details: LinkedIn, 1 hr 33 min
Description: Designed for non-designers, this course introduces average business professionals to key design components and requirements for purposeful PowerPoint slide design. PowerPoint MVP Heather Ackmann avoids convenient—but unproven—blanket rules for presentations, reaching instead for an understanding and holistic view of design. Heather's approach supports the three basic pillars for effective PowerPoint slides: audience, environment, and message. She guides you through before-and-after examples showing how to properly use white space in slide design, if and when to use bullet points to communicate, how to contrast elements and main ideas effectively, and finally, how to best use color.
Tags: Design
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Know Your Audience & Objectives
Training Details: LAB, 10 min
Description: Learn how best to understand your audience, their perspectives, and how you can anchor your deliverables around their needs and your objectives.
Tags: Emotional Intelligence
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Attention to Detail Training (July 2023)
Access Training & Details: BH Video, 43 min PPT, 19 slides
Description: Andra and Dong Yoon lead this training on Attention to Detail, covering strategies and tips to improve this important skill, including attention to fundamentals, feedback, and framing.
Tags: Critical Thinking
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Training Details: LAB, 17 min
Description: Understand how insights go beyond observations, and learn techniques for uncovering insights for your client.
Tags: Emotional Intelligence
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Training Details: LAB, 18 min
Description: Learn to build a strong recommendation while not being influenced by common biases.
Tags: Critical Thinking
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Keep embracing the journey — each step forward is a stride towards your limitless potential as a master strategist!
Strategist
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The Six Principles of Slide Writing (BCG Intro Course)
Training Details: LAB, 10 min
Description: Slides that are clearly written and well-designed will help you effectively communicate insights and recommendations to internal teams and clients. To help you achieve this goal, BCG has developed a six-step, repeatable approach: Make slides clear, simple, powerful, coherent, honest, and audience-centric. By learning how to embody these principles, you'll leave this session better equipped to deliver clear messages, engage audiences, and provide value across BCG and to our clients.
Tags: Technical
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Training Details: LAB, 5 min
Description: How often have you been in a meeting and had something to say but just didn’t know when to jump in into the conversation or don’t know if you’re point is valid enough to bring up? Having everyone contribute to a meeting is vital to making sure any and all ideas are brought to the table. These eight tips below will help you to easily speak up in your next meeting and make sure your point is heard.
Tags: Emotional Intelligence
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Training Details: LAB, 20 min
Description: Learn how to get to results quickly by leveraging the right tools and applying best practices.
Tags: Technical, Critical Thinking
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Associate strategy Director
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Training Details: LAB, 1 hr 9 min
Description: A successful workshop can have a profound impact on participants, introducing them to concepts and ways of thinking that can spark professional development and personal growth. In order to facilitate such an event, you need the right structure, process, and content. In this course, Britt Andreatta, PhD, discusses the role of the facilitator, and walks through how to effectively design, prepare for, and facilitate a workshop. Britt kicks off the course by covering the different types of workshop facilitation, and sharing tips for catering to the unique needs of adult learners. Next, she shows how to set yourself up for success by building a solid learning plan and agenda, designing the right activities, and tackling the logistics of the event. Britt then explains how to handle the workshop itself, including how to keep things on track and deal with challenging dynamics. Plus, she discusses how to extend the learner's journey after the event.
Tags: Technical
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Best Practices in Empathetic Listening (Client Focus)
Training Details: LAB, 1 hr
Description: Time with clients is often limited; we need to make the best out of the time we get. One way to do this is by listening empathetically, which enables you to understand the situation from the client's point of view as well as uncover hidden issues that wouldn't come up in a normal conversation. It also help build trust and establish an efficient and collaborative work environment. In this session, Aaron will share some best practices on empathetic listening along with some practical exercises you can leverage for future client conversations.
Tags: Emotional Intelligence, Effective Teaming
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Create Conversation and Manage Challenges
Training Details: LAB, 40 min
Description: In this chapter, we will learn how to create engaging conversations that empower you to reach your presentation objectives. We will look at how this is done in three different settings, and how to address challenges such as answering tough questions.
Tags: Emotional Intelligence, Effective Teaming, Leadership
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Training Details: LAB, 18 min
Description: This lesson provides tips for maximizing team performance, including getting to know the team, tailoring your management style, setting clear expectations, and maintaining motivation.
Tags: Leadership, Effective Teaming
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With the finish line in sight, let the anticipation of accomplishment propel you through the last mile of this enriching learning expedition.
strategy Director & Sr. Strategy Director
In every lesson and challenge, the seeds of your evolution within strategy are sown— nurture them, and watch your capabilities flourish.
Your dedication to progress fuels the brilliance of your path — keep igniting the flames of growth on this transformative journey.
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Persuasive Selling: The behavior behind successful sales
Training Details: LinkedIn, 1 hr
Description: Understanding how people think and behave is key to the art of persuasion—and any successful sale. In this course, Brian Ahearn draws on the work of social psychologists and behavioral economists to provide concrete, actionable items for each stage of the sales process. To begin, learn the eight psychological concepts that you can employ throughout the sales workflow: reciprocity, liking, social proof, authority, consistency, scarcity, compare/contrast, and because. Next, learn how these concepts play a role in the early stages of the sales cycle, as well as how they can help you realize the qualities of your ideal client, deliver presentations, handle objections, negotiate, close, and ask for referrals. Lastly, learn how to grow from each sale and continuously refine your approach.
Tags: Technical, Leadership
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Training Details: LAB, 39 min
Description: View Carol's LinkedIn Newsletter Research shows that when your verbal and nonverbal signals are out of alignment, people are forced to choose between what they hear and what they see. And subconsciously, they'll believe your body language. In this course, workplace body-language expert Carol Kinsey Goman, PhD, reveals how body language is perceived and often misread, and shares tips for making a positive first impression within the first few seconds of any interaction. She also discusses the role of body language in cross-cultural communication, delves into the importance of body language for leaders, and shows how you can establish leadership presence. Finally, she provides simple and effective tips on communicating with gestures and stance.
Tags: Leadership, Emotional Intelligence
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Learn Emotional Intelligence, the Key Determiner of Success
Training Details: LinkedIn, 32 min
Description: Explore the four domains of emotional intelligence—self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, and relationship management—as defined by psychologist and author Daniel Goleman. The domains build on one another, starting with a greater awareness of self and others, and ending with the management of relationships that are critical to your personal and professional life. Learn how to become more mindful of your strengths, limitations, and the values that define them; explore ways to create space between yourself, your thoughts, and your emotions; develop awareness of how people see the world differently based on individual preferences, as well as social and environmental factors; and use awareness of self and others to work toward collaboration, innovation, and mutually beneficial relationships.
Tags: Emotional Intelligence
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Training Details: PPT, 12 slides
Description: Understand typical project stakeholders and learn best practices and common pitfalls in stakeholder management
Tags: Emotional Intelligence, Leadership
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Manage Difficult Client Situations
Training Details: LAB, 40 min
Description: As consultants, we try hard to establish a positive working relationship with our clients. We try to avoid conflicts and delay unpleasant discussions as much as possible. But conflicts are a part of our daily work and can't always be avoided. The thing is, not all conflicts are bad. In fact they are necessary to make change happen. To help you understand the types of conflict you are dealing with, we have identified three common types of clients you may encounter on your cases. We will then review the best approach to take when dealing with that particular client type and what you need to do in order to win them over.
Tags: Emotional Intelligence
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Deepen Relationships (Commercial Support)
Training Details: LAB, 30 min
Description: Building client relationships in a virtual environment can be challenging. In this program, you will read about effective tactics to walk the halls virtually, engage with alumni, and bring global BCG expertise to your clients when they need us the most. Also listen to our leaders talk about their stories of building client relationships virtually.
Tags: Emotional Intelligence
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Training Details: LAB, 35 min
Description: There are both opportunities and challenges to conduct business development work in a virtual environment. Learn about how to make tactical moves to continue selling new work to both existing and new clients, building a winning proposal, and securing payments.
Tags: Emotional Intelligence, Leadership
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Approaching & Engaging in Tough Conversations
Access Training & Details: BH Video, 1 hr 42 min PPT, 22 slides
Description: Learn from Theresa Ward how to approach and engage in tough conversations. Training includes a video session and accompanying slide deck detailing best practices: how to recognize, receive, reflect, and respond to these situations as they arise (and they will!)
Tags: Emotional Intelligence
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The Importance of Feedback, Feedback Mindset, Apprenticeship at BCG
Training Details: LAB, 35 min
Description: Learn how feedback connects to BCG's purpose and the role feedback plays in individual development. Review the concept of fixed vs. growth mindset and how leaders can cultivate a growth mindset in themselves and their teams. Explore the three dimensions of apprenticeship: observer, trainer, and motivator.
Tags: Personal Growth
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Bold Commitments: Cara on Amex GBT 11 mins
Cultural Transformation: Neils on Lufthansa 21 mins
ESG Narrative: Maggie on Abbvie 7 mins, AG on Henkel 12 mins
Ideation Workshops: Tres on King Salman Park 8 mins
Investor Narrative: Cathy on John Deere 12 mins
Mission, Vision: Tres on King Salman Park 8 mins, AG on Henkel 12 mins, Jade and Whit on SoftwareONE 13 mins
Purpose: AG on Henkel 12 mins, Cathy on John Deere 12 mins, Neils on Lufthansa 21 mins, Andra on Mercedes-Benz Cars 15 mins, Heather on Singtel 7 mins, Jade and Whit on SoftwareONE 13 mins, Maggie on Stanley Black and Decker 14 mins, AG on Temasek 11 mins, Dolly on The North Face 16 mins
Purpose Driven Branding: Maggie on Always 12 mins, Paul on Infobip 11 mins, Dolly on The North Face 16 mins
Values: Cara on Abu Dhabi Government 16 mins, Dolly on The North Face 16 mins, Heather on Singtel 7 mins
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