Develop your consulting practice.
Ask yourself:
Am I clear regarding what consulting services I will offer and how these will create value?
Do I know how to develop business, contract the work, and set fees?
Am I able to successfully work through challenging client situations?
Am I ready to tackle all of the challenges of kick-starting and growing my consulting practice?
Work with us to:
Match your consultant capabilities to areas of practice and business strategy.
Evaluate your options for fee structures and address other business centered considerations.
Get coaching through foundational business development decisions and processes.
Extend the coaching beyond the initial setup.
Match capabilities to areas of practice and business strategy
Evaluating which direction to take when starting to consult can often be a winding road. Considering your own capabilities and areas of interest help to define your target market and ideal areas of practice. We coach consultant clients, helping them decide a direction to take that uniquely fits them and creates a path toward success.
Evaluate fee structures and other business centered considerations
While considering options and honing specific areas of practice is integral to a consultant’s success, optimizing day-to-day operations is critical to the long-term efficacy of any consultancy. We provide insights into the pros and cons of divergent fee structures and other business practices, such as proposal writing and ensuring contract clarity. Navigating these business decisions while keeping consultant and client interests in mind allows us to coach consultants through these impactful decisions.
Make foundational business development decisions
You know your practice areas. You know your market. Now, how do you connect and contract with the right clients for your consultancy? We support consultant client efforts to think through these next steps, including coaching consultant clients through important initial interactions where fit and capabilities are initially assessed. We also provide each consultant client with guidance towards developing consulting agreements based on well-articulated scopes of work and delivering that information to prospective clients in a clear, effective way.
Extend coaching beyond initial business development and operations
Long-term engagements with us provide benefits extending beyond the initial setup of business development approaches and operations. With us as coach and mentor, consultants can tackle complex situations with a seasoned sounding board, one with decades of experience addressing many of the same issues. We support clients in hashing out the details of specific roadblocks. When being an independent consultant can feel isolating, we are able to provide consultant clients with a second voice behind the scenes to share insights and generate ideas.