New Consultants
These Programs and workshops have been specially designed to help people making the move from the corporate life into consulting. They will also be be useful for consultants wanting to expand their practice into new areas more quickly.
Major benefits:
The Programs are likely to appeal to your consultant whose:
We recommend you start with the free Diagnostics Product and identify what initiatives are likely to be most useful.
Major benefits:
- Ready-made products so you can run workshops from day one
- Happier clients and more repeat business
- More income more quickly after starting
- More time to visit potential customers
- More time to do consulting work
- Lower risk as all products are tested and guaranteed to work
- Brand the material with you own branding if desired.
The Programs are likely to appeal to your consultant whose:
- Client wants their organisation to be far more successful
- Client believes their their people are capable of far more than they current contribute but is not sure how to liberate this potential
- Client would like their people, from top to bottom, to think about the organisation like the manager does
- Client is open to new ways of thinking and new concepts
- Client believes that doing business in a better way can be positive for the planet - more open, living, bottom-up, without silos and unnecessary bureaucracy.
We recommend you start with the free Diagnostics Product and identify what initiatives are likely to be most useful.
Bruce Holland's story
It was 25 years ago, but I still remember the exhilaration, the fear and the sleepless nights! For me, going consulting, was not very logical. I was in an excellent position, good pay, company car, golden handcuffs. I was far from sure it would work. I still had a dependent child and lukewarm support from family. So why did I take the plunge and become an independent consultant? It was more emotional or even spiritual. I had some deep need to make a difference; or more specifically, to liberate human energy at work.
Your reasons may be quite different but I bet your fears are similar:
I worked all my holidays for the last year and cashed in my leave. This paid for a cheap Honda City to replace my company car. It also funded a few weeks without income. It was not easy but it was exhilarating.
I also started working on a strategic plan at nights a few months before leaving and even tried developing a few approaches that I hoped would be useful to discuss with prospective clients when the time came.
I can honestly say that all my hopes have been realised and I have been financially successful; more than most of my colleagues who stayed in the bank, but not as successful as a few who went on to become CEOs of major corporates.
I was lucky. Or was it a case of luck coming to the brave? Anyway, one of the doors I knocked on during the first month was an electricity company with a brand new CEO who had heard good things about me, and I got my first two-month assignment.
Over the next 25 years sometimes I let my clients down as I learned by trial and error. It’s this knowledge and experience that I’ve translated into 23 half-day workshops that you can put in your consultants tool-box. With these 23 modules you can design your own Program. They will make your plunge far less painful, less risky and years quicker.
Your reasons may be quite different but I bet your fears are similar:
- I had a great salary and conditions and no idea whether I would be able to replace them
- I had never been a consultant and did not know if I had what it took
- I had always worked in large corporates and never worked by myself
- I had lots of ideas but no real products to sell
- My brand was good inside my company but weak outside
- I was concerned about selling myself, especially cold calls
- I had no idea where my first job would come from or how much to charge.
- I hoped my work would be an expression of who I am in the world
- I hoped I would be able to make a difference not only to my client but also to the world
- I hoped I would have far more control over what was delivered, how it was delivered, who I worked with, and how I spent my time
- I hoped my future would be firmly in my own hands
- I hoped I would end up creating an organisation of value and purpose.
I worked all my holidays for the last year and cashed in my leave. This paid for a cheap Honda City to replace my company car. It also funded a few weeks without income. It was not easy but it was exhilarating.
I also started working on a strategic plan at nights a few months before leaving and even tried developing a few approaches that I hoped would be useful to discuss with prospective clients when the time came.
I can honestly say that all my hopes have been realised and I have been financially successful; more than most of my colleagues who stayed in the bank, but not as successful as a few who went on to become CEOs of major corporates.
I was lucky. Or was it a case of luck coming to the brave? Anyway, one of the doors I knocked on during the first month was an electricity company with a brand new CEO who had heard good things about me, and I got my first two-month assignment.
Over the next 25 years sometimes I let my clients down as I learned by trial and error. It’s this knowledge and experience that I’ve translated into 23 half-day workshops that you can put in your consultants tool-box. With these 23 modules you can design your own Program. They will make your plunge far less painful, less risky and years quicker.