A highly recommended course for anyone with professional standing who is wanting to become a consultant. Learn to set up your practice the correct way from the start.
Course Aims:
- Developing an understanding of consulting, what business consultants do, and how they help their clients.
- Identifying the key activities and requirements for starting out in consulting.
- Identifying key competencies and skills of consultants and how they are applied to business problems.
- Identifying the importance of credibility and techniques to build credibility as a consultant.
- Recognizing the role quality and service plays in consulting and strategies and techniques used to build quality and service.
- Analyzing client needs and implementing these as a road-map for your consulting practice.
- Familiarizing yourself with marketing and personal brand strategies in consulting practice.
- Identifying ways to track, to deliver and to measure performance results in consulting.
- Building a repertoire of business skills that enable you to run a consulting business.
Detailed Course Outline
This course is made up of a number of modules. Each of these has self assessment questions, a set task (practical homework) and an assignment which you can upload online.
There are 10 lessons in this course:
- What Does a Consultant Do?
- Starting Out in Consulting
- Consulting Skills
- Building Credibility
- Service and Quality
- Analyzing Client Needs
- Personal Brand Management
- Working with Clients
- Delivering and Measuring Results
- Running a Consulting Business
When you have completed the lessons of your Certificate course, you will be given the option of taking the optional exam. It’s okay if you don’t want the exam, we still issue your Careerline Certificate. For Advanced Certificates however, the exam is compulsory (per module) and are included in the course fee.