Your client pays for the thinking and then forwards the summary. Give them a page they can put in front of their own board without redrawing it the night before
Practice Performance Review. A finished One-Pager, made the way yours will be. Anything up to 50 pages counts as one document.
What it pulls out of a consulting deliverable
Read out of the file you upload. Nothing is assumed and nothing is filled in.
The recommendation, first and in one line
The findings it rests on
What it costs and what it returns
The next step, with a date against it
More finished One-Pagers from professional services
Every one made the same way, with nothing touched up for the website.
Questions about consulting deliverables
What the document is, and what happens when you put one through here.
How do I turn a consulting report into a one page executive summary?
Put the answer first, then the three or four supporting findings, then the recommended next steps, the Pyramid Principle order. Upload the report and MakeOnepagers builds that One-Pager in your client's colours.
How do I make a client-ready summary of a long deck?
Pull the governing message, the evidence that backs it and the actions you want approved onto one page. Make it as a One-Pager from the deck, then edit and hand it over as a PDF or link.
How do I summarize each workstream for a steering committee?
Give each workstream its own page: status, what changed, risks and decisions needed. Upload each workstream's report and make one One-Pager per workstream in the same style.
What is a consulting deliverable?
The report or deck a firm hands over at the end of a piece of work. An executive summary sits at the front of it.
What is the Pyramid Principle?
Barbara Minto's method, developed at McKinsey. Lead with the recommendation, support it with a few arguments, and back each one with data. Slideworks
How should an executive summary be structured?
Situation, complication, resolution, with the objective before it and the call to action after. Slideworks
How long is a consulting deck?
The median across 160 real McKinsey decks is 38 pages. The executive summary itself is meant to be a single slide. Slideworks
What should the first page say?
The recommendation. Everything after it is support, which is what answer first means in practice. Slideworks
Can the page carry my client's branding rather than mine?
Yes. Colors, fonts, logo and all 5 chart colors are set per document, so the page goes out looking like theirs.
Is the output good enough to send to a client?
Every example on this site is drawn by the same renderer your page uses. Judge it on those.
Can I make one per workstream?
Yes. Each document is its own page, and the $29 plan covers 12 a month.
Does it change my numbers?
No. Every figure comes out of your own file and is traced back to it.
Can I hand over an editable file?
Yes. Download it as Word and every heading, list and table arrives as real text. Each chart arrives as a table of its own numbers.
