by Rob O'Byrne | Mar 13, 2020 | Start Consulting, Tips on Consultng
If you think that managing your time is challenging now, in your regular job, and you’re planning to set out on your own as a consultant, here’s a reality-check. Managing your time as an independent consultant is going to be much tougher, I promise you. Just...
by Rob O'Byrne | Mar 6, 2020 | Start Consulting, Tips on Consultng
In my previous post, I took you briefly through the whys and wherefores of using Microsoft PowerPoint and explained why it’s such a popular application with management consultants. PowerPoint is the medium you will use to deliver much of your communication when...
by Rob O'Byrne | Feb 28, 2020 | Consulting Clients, Tips on Consultng
If you’ve ever been involved in a project with external consultants (in your previous corporate life), you probably noticed that they seem to absolutely love PowerPoint presentations. The truth is, we don’t spend hour upon hour making pretty slides for the fun of it...
by Rob O'Byrne | Feb 21, 2020 | Consulting Clients, Tips on Consultng
As a management consultant, it’s important to aid your consulting customer to make decisions based on the work you do for her. Without your help in decision-making, the customer has an excuse to shelve your work and pass off the expense as a mistaken belief in your...
by Rob O'Byrne | Feb 14, 2020 | Consulting Clients, Tips on Consultng
As a new consultant, you will need to find ways to gain your customers’ trust, especially if you want to tempt customers away from consulting businesses they’ve worked with previously—remember the age-old adage “better the devil you know.” Gaining Customer Trust...
by Rob O'Byrne | Feb 7, 2020 | Mentoring, Tips on Consultng
If your corporate life has involved plenty of marketing activity, I apologise in advance for trying to teach you to suck eggs, but the simple fact is; many people who start out in consulting do so solely on the basis of technical expertise. So if you’ve never had to...
