Become a highly paid Consultant, Adviser, Coach or Trainer

Strategies and tactics to build a high earning Consultancy Business Advisory , Training , OD, Coaching Business

Created by: Philip Atkinson
Delivering Change & Learning Strategies for Personal Growth

What Will I Learn?

• Assess how best to set themselves up as a consultant, coach or business advisor
• Identify key barriers to setting up an independent consulting practice
• Understand the importance of building personal branding and offering unique niche solutions for clients
• Recognise the value of personal communication and influencing strategies in working with clients
• Self-assess using a personal SWOT as it relates to consulting or advisory work
• Be able to sell exceptional and tangible benefits to clients and provide reasons why they should choose you above others
• Know how to attract the right type of client and develop strategies for working on winning and retaining the ‘ideal’ client as an individual or as a business
• Apply the Service Portfolio Matrix to your consultancy and advisory services and assess their relative value to each of the four quadrants. This is valuable in assessing which services you can sell to which clients and which sectors
• Understand the psychology of developing a fee structure and understand this is a direct reflection of the value you add for your client
• Focus on selling your services in the top 5-10% of the industry norm, and provide comparable service
• Understand the difference between being ‘sales’ and ‘client’ focused and work on developing long-term relationships with your client
• Understand the dynamics behind the five-stage consulting cycle and be able to support your client going through the process
• Analyse the relationships of the core actors in the change arena and how they work together as consultants, client, stakeholder and implementers
• Evaluate and apply the best marketing practise to build your business as a consultant or business advisor

Requirements

• A general understanding of business subjects is all that is necessary

Target audience

• You should take this course if you want to start or develop your own Consulting, Business Advisory, Training, Mentoring or Coaching Business and offer genuine value to clients. People who should not take the course are those looking for a ‘get rich quick’ , short term scheme.