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How to Make the Money Spent on a Consultant Worth It
As compared to the past decade, hiring consultants is fairly simple these days because of freelance consulting platforms. However, like every other business investment, hiring a consultant comes with a cost. So whether you hire a consultant or an employee, ...
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What Consultants Can Teach Us About Navigating Uncertainty
The word “uncertainty” has taken on a meaning we would have found difficult to contemplate just six months ago. To say that we are in uncharted seas must surely be an understatement. The problem with uncertainty is that it leads ...
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3 Powerful Insider Tips to a New Freelance Consultant
Hello to my favorite New Freelance Consultant. You’re about to embark on the exciting journey of independent consulting. You have completed your studies and have some work experience – enough, you think, to launch a new career. You’ve asked what ...
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Best-Practices – Why Management Consultants Fail
Failure is not something that is limited to freelance management consultants, or even to freelancers in general. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, only about one-half of all newly established businesses survive more than five years. Sometimes, a ...
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Let’s Be Honest – Should You Become an Independent Consultant?
Maybe I feel jaundiced, or perhaps I’d been in the consulting game for too long? But the somewhat breathless promises about the benefits of becoming an independent consultant made me smile somewhat ruefully! My own experience was that you should ...
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How to Become an Independent Consultant – The Answer Is Technology
Some people’s strategy for becoming independent consultants is to quit their jobs and look for their first clients! Unless this is thrust upon you by losing your current job, it’s not a strategy I’d recommend. Freelance management consulting can be ...
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5 Tools Every Top Independent Management Consultant Should Know
As a freelance management consultant, you’re not only responsible for client projects. You’re also responsible for your own “business side” of things. It includes networking to find clients, keeping track of all the proposals you have outstanding, and managing your ...
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3 Issues You Must Accept to Win Consulting Projects in Uncertain Times
It won’t be news to you that the work environment has changed a lot since coronavirus kicked in. Not only has the world of work changed, but it’s done so at rapid speed with the ongoing threat of further disaster. ...
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Get into The Mind of a Consultant
Empathy (noun): the ability to share someone else's feelings or experiences by imagining what it would be like to be in that person's situation. That’s Cambridge dictionary’s definition of ‘empathy’ and it’s pretty much on point. In the middle of ...
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