A guide on how to become the best consultant in your field, whether starting out or consolidating your career.

Seeks to reveal the secret of how to become a self-employed speaker, lecturer, or trainer. This book shows readers, step-by-step, everything they need to know to become polished speakers and about the corporate training market, who buys training and how to get bookings.

Part of the Research in Management Consulting series, this title explores the growing complexity associated with the growing demands on boards of directors and the challenges raised by evolving expectations of what constitutes 'good' governance. It focuses on the evolution of expectations and needs in relation to boards and their operation.

Build a thriving business while holding down a full-time job. Do you yearn to strike out on your own, take charge of your destiny, and create a better, more independent lifestyle for yourself? Read this book and learn how to start your consulting business while you still have the security of a regular job. Consulting on the Side is for the professional who longs for independence but can't simply .

Aims to help aspiring and professional consultants alike to work smarter and live better. This book contains interviews and vignettes with highly successful consultants and also offers immediately implementable advice.

Every year the demand for consultants of all kinds increases, as organisations become leaner and compact and outsourcing more commonplace. This book provides information and practical step by step guidance on starting and developing a successful consulting practice. It contains advice on the process of consultancy in terms of marketing activities.

Part of the Research in Management Consulting series, this volume explores the growing complexity associated with the growing demands on boards of directors and the challenges raised by evolving expectations of what constitutes 'good' governance. It focuses on the evolution of expectations and needs in relation to boards and their operation.

Demonstrates that, in spite of the many risks and temptations, consultants can approach their profession and clients fearlessly. This book offers a range of philosophical inspirations for readers, as well as specific intervention models and practical methodologies.

Tuned to address the changes in today's business environment, this book outlines the basics for managing a consulting practice. It shows how to: build a business plan; market your business; charge for your services; build a client relationship; grow the business; ensure your continued professional growth; and make money in the profession.

Shows how consulting fees are dependent on only two things: value provided in the perception of the buyer and the intent of the buyer and the consultant to act ethically.

Follow the expert advice in this book--the fourth in The Ultimate Consultant Series - and you shouldn't fall victim to the success plateau that undermines many consultants. If you feel that your work has become easier, it may be that you're not climbing up but rather moving laterally.

This volume examines different aspects of management consulting. It shows how the consulting industry managed to reach the importance it has today; how consultancies and management gurus develop new ideas and/or repackage old ones; and how consultants find or retain clients and interact with them in a given project.

Avoid costly litgation! You'll want to keep this user--friendly overview of legal issues on your desk at all times! This is the only complete how--to guide and overview of legal issues you face as a consultant.

At the heart of this text for training consultants is the assumption that the role of expert can only be effectively played when seven additional roles have been mastered, because of the complex and uncertain nature of the client-consultant relationship. It contains 17 original case-studies.

Showing how senior managers unwittingly collude with their consultants in perpetuating the damage from the 'five fatal flaws' of conventional consulting, the author offers a method for designing consulting projects that produce results.

This new book is a revised and abridged edition of Herman Holtz's business book, 'How to Succeed in as an Independent Consultant', third edition, aimed at the young business person who is just embarking on a consulting career.

Explains the process of choosing and using consultants and advisers. This book helps clients get into the mind of consultants, showing them how consultancy works from the inside. It contains numerous examples and checklists as well as case studies of good and bad practice. It is suitable for businesses/non-commercial groups as well as individuals.