To be successful as an Independent Consultant you must ensure you are fully equipped to meet the expectations that clients have of consultants... which are very different from the expectations of employees. It’s not sufficient to just have strength in depth as a subject matter expert, well not if you want to secure the best clients and join the ranks of the highest earning Independent Consultants. You must balance this with being able to demonstrate an extensive range of consulting capabilities….it seems obvious doesn’t it.

Without strong consulting capabilities you will struggle to find the right assignments to give you the delivery satisfaction and the daily rates that you want and need. You are unlikely to get contract extensions and may struggle to find work at all, leading to those dreaded gaps between contracts with no money coming in. And without well-developed consulting capabilities you will certainly not be considered for associate roles through consulting firms.

However, those Independent Consultants who are continually developing and leveraging their consulting capabilities command the highest fees and are in constant demand. These are the experts who become the Independent Consultants of choice in their field.

If this is what you are striving for then you have no choice but to become a master at consulting.

I like to split consulting capabilities into 2 categories:

• Core Consulting Capabilities that can be used at any stage of a business transformation or change process;
• Delivery Capabilities that are most relevant during one of the 5 phases of the business transformation process (refer to the Business Transformation and Consulting module for more information about this).

All our online learning programmes fall into one of these two categories.

Here’s what you will get:

• Structured and practical guidance to help you develop the business transformation, consulting and project delivery capabilities that you need.
• Methodologies, strategies and tools used by leading consultancy firms and specially adapted for you as an Independent.
• A mixture of video and PowerPoint presentations with audio commentaries to support these;
• Assessments at the end of each module with a few questions to test your understanding;
• Certification to say you have successfully completed the course – useful if I refer you to contacts in consulting firms who are looking for associates to place on projects;
• A resources area for you to download 
• The slide packs
• Transcripts of the commentaries – with spaces to take notes
• MP3’s of the audio
• Notes versions of the slide pack that you can print and use as a workbook
• Checklists
• Templates that are ready to use with your clients

And because it’s all online, you can take the training at a pace and place that suits you.