Consulting Skills – The Missing Link in Management Education

One of the things I enjoy most about my job is helping people take the next steps in their careers. Examples of this include helping people:

• Set up as independent consultants
• Switch careers into consulting (from all sorts of professional backgrounds)
• Land jobs with the big consulting firms (includes LBS & Judge MBA students)
• Secure their next roles following redundancy
• Grow their consulting practices

A common theme in all my work is the discovery that consulting skills give people a major advantage in today’s competitive workplace. This is true even for those with advanced degrees and other professional qualifications (~30% of my students have MBAs). Why is this?

I was recently interviewed by the editor of Professional Manager (the Chartered Management Institute magazine, circulation ~90,000). Click here to download the article.

What I argue in this article is that managers spend a great deal of their time tackling investigative problems and that consulting skills help them become much more effective at this. Why risk ‘winging it’ when there are extremely powerful consulting methods that can help you and your colleagues tackle complex problems and challenges much more effectively at lower risk?

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