There’s nothing quite like the rush of excitement that comes from finally launching your own consulting business, especially if you’re lucky enough to have a client project ready to go at the time of launch. However, the thrill can soon start to pale when you’re wearing a dozen different hats and trying to delight your new clients. ...
Read MoreBeing a Business Owner: Is it Right for You?
Before you decide to go ahead and quit your corporate job to become an independent consultant, you should be sure it’s absolutely the right thing to do. Like any form of business ownership, there are certain pros and cons to independent consulting, as there are to working as a company employee. If you’re trying to decide whether...
Read MoreIndependent Consulting Challenges: Staying Connected and Up to Date
It’s always good to know what challenges await you in a new career, and as rewarding as independent consulting is, you will face your share of challenges once your new business gets under way. In this post, I’d like to help you prepare for just one of those challenges—keeping up to date with consulting trends and knowledge, and staying...
Read MoreIs it Better to be an Independent Consultant or to Work for a Firm?
Should You go Independent or Join a Consulting Firm? While this website is intended primarily to help you learn about independent consulting, I’m always happy to share insights with anyone keen to get into the management consulting profession, whether they want to run their own business or join an established consulting firm. I’m also...
Read MoreThe Independent Consultant’s Guide to Institutional Trust
Did you know that even as a solo, independent consultant, trust in your brand from the client perspective is as important—if not more so—than the client’s trust in you as a consultant? For larger consulting firms, this fact probably goes without saying, but among independent consultants, there’s often a perception that it’s more...
Read MoreExecutive-Friendly Communication An Independent Consultant’s Imperative
Before choosing life as an independent business consultant, your former career-roles might have required you to understand and practice executive-friendly communication. If not, the tips contained in this post may be useful to you, because communicating with senior business leaders is something you’ll need to get used to. Executive officers...
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