How to... have conversations about consultancy skills
Understanding Consultancy Skills
Consultancy skills are critical to business success. They form key meta skills that combine with technical sills and knowledge to deliver great work for clients. Consultancy skills include working as a team, great interpersonal and communication skills, creativity, innovation, analytical thinking and flexibility along with being able to cope with the pressures and challenges with come with consulting.
Things to consider
Useful Questions
In a world where there are a lot of decisions to be made asking this question can help zone into what is most important
In any situation or problem to be solved there will be a number of factors at play. This simple question can be a useful starting point for both you and the client
Another simple but often overlooked question. This can either help us see something that worked and we have forgotten about that could help in this situation, or could save unnecessarily wasting time
Often the person has an idea of the potential answer already, they may just need your help to unpack it further
Many people have an intuition or an understanding because of the knowledge and experience they have yet don’t talk about it. Asking this question can bring out this simple fact
