The Core Consulting Skills

IMCT organizes mandatory courses for consultants and community for their professional development and life long learning

Specialist or technical expertise alone is not sufficient if consultants are to deliver excellent results for their clients and prosper in their business. Successful Consultants need additional skills in four main areas:

Problem Solving which is at the core of a consultant’s work, grasping the essentials of the issues that face clients and developing effective ways of addressing them.

Project Management the value that consultants deliver to clients is most often through the vehicle of a project and so project management needs to be done well. However, there are particular challenges in project management for consultants they need to be aware of and prepared to overcome.

Managing Client Relationships the work of a consultant is delivered in a client environment which presents difficulties when clients are part of a different organization often with different values, agendas, the power to reject consultants and their advice.

Commercial Aspects of Management Consultancy. Consultancy is a business like any other which if it is to survive and thrive needs to sell its services and be managed well to operate effectively.