Program Objectives
- Strengthen core consulting skills, including critical thinking and problem-solving, communication, project management, and client relationship management, to effectively deliver high-quality consulting services.
- Acquire advanced knowledge of management consulting methodologies and frameworks to address complex client challenge.
- Learn how to work and collaborate effectively with clients and their team members maintaining ethical and professional standards in all the touchpoints of the consulting process.
- Obtain a Postgraduate Certificate in Business Consulting as a Management Consultant, demonstrating mastery of consulting competencies and professional credentials.
- Build a robust professional network and enhance marketability as a consultant through recognition as a certified management consultant.
- Obtain a comprehensive consulting toolkit, including best practices, templates, and frameworks, to deliver effective and impactful consulting services to clients across industries and sectors.
What You Will Learn
Day 1: Overview and Introduction
Day 2: The Consulting Practice
Day 3: Consulting Core Competencies
Day 4: The Emotionally Intelligent Consultant
Day 5: Strong Business Ethics: The Cornerstone of Professionalism in Consulting
Day 6:The Consultant’s Toolkit
Day 7:Thinking Like Consultants
Day 8:Developing the Proposal
Day 9: Managing Projects
Day 10:Gathering Data and Diagnosing Client Situations
Day 11:Communicating to Influence
Day 12: Consultant-Client Partnership
Day 13: Interventions: Getting Clients to Change
Day 14: Facilitating Change
Day 15: The Consulting Project
Day 16: Entrepreneurship
Day 17:The Consulting Business Plan
Day 18:The Consulting Business Model Canvas
Day 19: Pricing The Consulting Service
Day 20:Consultancy Marketing
Day 21: Financial Statement of the Consulting Business
Day 22: Financing the Consulting Business
Day 23: Legal Management for the Consulting Business
Day 24 & 25: Revalida, Learning from consultants, Graduation Rites, Networking with other consultants in the industry
Key Benefits
- Gain knowledge of the consulting industry and the core competencies required to be a successful management consultant.
- Understand the experiences, constraints, and issues surrounding consulting practice.
- Learn how to define the scope of your consulting engagement, write better proposals & project plans, conduct research & gather data, identify solutions, and implement & disengage.
- Learn how to market your practice & manage client relationships, manage your consulting practice, and maintain your competitive advantage in the marketplace.
Who Should Attend
This program is designed for management consultants at any stage of their consulting practice:
- Consultants making major changes to focus their practice.
- Consultants needing specific skills or competencies.
- Freelance and independent advisors or contractors wanting to improve their overall consulting acumen.
- Early-stage consultants (one to three years in practice).
- Executives in transition who want to start a consulting career.
- MBA students wishing to explore or pursue a management consulting career.