Consulting for the Clueless® - $2.95
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In today’s business climate, consultants are flourishing while others can’t find a job.
This book will show you how to profitably leverage your experience into a six-figure income with minimal investment.
Includes a one- hour video consulting seminar, a complete PDF copy of Marketing the One-Person Business ™, and support software.
This book will show you how to profitably leverage your experience into a six-figure income with minimal investment.
Includes a one- hour video consulting seminar, a complete PDF copy of Marketing the One-Person Business ™, and support software.
Sample Content
nce upon a time, consulting was a dirty word. Many people felt that the only reason you would want to be a consultant was because you were unemployable or that you were between jobs. Until the mid-1970s, this might have been true for many professions, but today it’s the exact opposite.
Companies would never consider using a consultant unless something was wrong that management didn’t want to fix, or didn’t know how to fix. They needed a consultant to come in and remedy the problem for them. In fact, the process was called chainsaw consulting because the consultant usually ended up creating a report that recommended cutting a number of employees.
Even though there is still a degree of chainsaw consulting, consulting is useful, productive, legitimate, and an integral part of the business plans of many organizations.
Utilizing consulting services, rather than employing full-time employees operates many of today’s businesses more successfully and profitably. In fact, many new businesses are now planned and created with the concept of using contract labor and services, rather than planning on a full-time work force—it’s simply more efficient from a time and financial standpoint.
Financial expediency has pushed the consultant to the forefront of the labor market and rightly so because a consultant is paid for performance—not for presence. Consultants help achieve goals through:
Companies would never consider using a consultant unless something was wrong that management didn’t want to fix, or didn’t know how to fix. They needed a consultant to come in and remedy the problem for them. In fact, the process was called chainsaw consulting because the consultant usually ended up creating a report that recommended cutting a number of employees.
Even though there is still a degree of chainsaw consulting, consulting is useful, productive, legitimate, and an integral part of the business plans of many organizations.
Utilizing consulting services, rather than employing full-time employees operates many of today’s businesses more successfully and profitably. In fact, many new businesses are now planned and created with the concept of using contract labor and services, rather than planning on a full-time work force—it’s simply more efficient from a time and financial standpoint.
Financial expediency has pushed the consultant to the forefront of the labor market and rightly so because a consultant is paid for performance—not for presence. Consultants help achieve goals through:
- Consulting, advising, and designing programs to fill the gaps between the actual situation and the desired one.
- Coaching, guiding, and training (different levels).
- Developing management and supervisory skills and know-how.
- Defining the company's mission, goals, and objectives.
- Assessing the actual situation.
- Identifying training and operational needs.
- Improving organizational communications.
- Improving work performance.
- Increasing employee motivation.
- Raising the levels of organizational performance and achievements.
- Achieving customer satisfaction and customer loyalty.
- Enlarging the company's customer base and market segment