My Change Management Playbook
Product Name:
My Change Management Playbook
Product Type
Playbook
Short Promise
A practical guide to planning, leading and measuring change so people adopt it and the change sticks.
Product Description
My Change Management Playbook shows leaders and change practitioners what good change management looks like, what to do next and what to avoid. It brings together a four-phase framework and six streams of effort, then turns them into clear activities, deliverables, exit criteria, tools and measures. Use it to shape the approach, align leadership, plan stakeholder engagement, communications and training, and track whether the change has moved from launch into lasting adoption.
Ideal Buyer
Designed for consultants managing change consultancies, leaders and change, and practitioners responsible for shaping, delivering or embedding organisational change. It is especially relevant when the change involves multiple stakeholder groups, unclear ownership, resistance, disconnected activity or a risk that implementation will be mistaken for adoption.
Key Benefits
- Save time by starting with a proven structure for planning and running change engagements.
- Know what to recommend at each phase, including the right activities, deliverables and exit criteria.
- Select credible tools for different change types and stakeholder challenges.
- Give clients clearer advice on what good looks like, what to do next and which common mistakes to avoid.
Format and Contents
A 45-slide PowerPoint presentation comprising a 43-page playbook, plus the cover and final ConsultantCafé support page. The playbook is organised into six parts:
- ConsultantCafé point of view
- The framework
- Phase deep dives
- Stream playbooks
- Types of change
- Running the program
It includes the four-phase, six-stream framework; phase-by-phase purpose, deliverables, exit criteria, questions and pitfalls; activities and tool guidance for project management, leadership, business changes, stakeholder engagement, communications and training; guidance for six change types; governance forums and decision rights; adoption measures; six common failure modes; a worked Change Management Dashboard; and an LLM script for building a structured Change Management Overview.
Pricing
Member Price: Free
Non-paid member: $99
Benefits Product
Product Name -** My Benefits Realsiation Playbook
Product Type - Playbook
Pricing - Free for ConsultantCafé members. $99 for non-members.
Short Promise - Deliver a stronger, more credible benefits-management consultancy with a practical playbook that shows you what good looks like, what to do next and what not to overlook.
Product Description -The ConsultantCafé Benefits Playbook gives consultants and project professionals a practical, end-to-end approach they can use to structure the work, challenge assumptions and produce advice that stands up to scrutiny. Its five-phase Benefits Brew shows how to identify, analyse, plan, monitor and realise, and review benefits, with minimum viable artefacts and optional depth for larger or more complex investments. You do not have to invent the approach from scratch or wonder whether a critical step has been missed.
Ideal Buyer - Consultants and project professionals undertaking benefits-management consultancies, assignments or projects who want a credible method to guide client conversations and strengthen their recommendations. It is also relevant to executives and investment sponsors, Senior Responsible Officials, Benefit Owners, project and program leaders, change practitioners, and advisers responsible for turning investment intent into measurable improvement.
Key Benefits -
- Run a more complete consultancy using a clear lifecycle that takes the work from investment intent through to realisation and review.
- Know what good looks like at each phase, which artefacts matter and when the engagement needs greater depth.
- Avoid the gaps that weaken benefits advice, including unclear ownership, unsupported forecasts, missing baselines and benefits disconnected from delivery decisions.
- Give clients a clear line of sight from the problem or opportunity through business change to measurable benefits and strategic objectives.
Format and Contents - A 17-slide digital playbook covering purpose and use, the DTA Benefits Management Policy, core benefits-management foundations, the five-phase ConsultantCafé Benefits Brew, a minimum viable benefits toolkit, worked fictional examples, and source terminology. Practical content includes a lifecycle view, phase-by-phase activities and artefacts, a benefit dependency map, and a completed benefit statement and profile. The supplied source is a PowerPoint file; confirm whether customers will receive the PPTX, a PDF, or both before publishing this format detail in the shop.
Delivery Risk Certainty Framework
- Product Name: Delivery Risk Certainty Framework
Product Type
Commercial Acumen Framework
Short Promise
Choose a pricing model that fits scope certainty and makes delivery risk visible, costed and priced.
Product Description
The Delivery Certainty Framework helps principals and engagement leads make stronger commercial decisions before work begins. It maps consulting engagements by scope certainty and pricing type, then directs the user to one of four practical playbooks: Low Risk, But There Is a Catch; Priced Repeatability; Paid Discovery; and Priced Risk Transfer.
Each playbook sets out the staffing considerations, commercial choices, warning signs and pricing models to consider. Use it to see what good looks like, decide what to do next and avoid accepting delivery risk without pricing it.
Ideal Buyer
Principals and engagement leads pricing or reviewing consulting engagements, especially when deciding between time and materials, fixed price, outcome-based arrangements or paid discovery, and when scope certainty or delivery accountability is unclear.
Key Benefits
- Place an engagement in one of four risk and pricing scenarios, then identify the corresponding commercial playbook.
- Align staffing, checkpoints, assumptions, client obligations and change control with the pricing model.
- Consider options ranging from capped time and materials and retainers to fixed-fee discovery, milestone payments and at-risk fees.
- Catch common margin risks early, including unchecked scope creep, senior-staff dependencies, open-ended discovery and fixed-price commitments built on unclear scope.
Format and Contents
A digital PowerPoint presentation containing eight slides:
- One product cover
- One four-quadrant framework overview
- Four detailed commercial playbooks
- One Rules of Engagement summary
- One ConsultantCafé vision page
Essential Series Cards
- Product name: Better Consulting Cards - Essential Series
- Product type: Cards
- Short promise:Building remarkable consulting careers, one scenario at a time.
Product description:
The Better Consulting Deck is a practical development tool that helps consultants learn, think and grow through real situations they face at work. Each card presents a consulting scenario, then reveals what good looks like, what to do next, what to avoid and the frameworks that can help. Use the cards independently, with your team or around a table to spark reflection, coaching and better conversations.
Ideal buyer:
- Consultants,
- consulting managers,
- team leaders and firm owners who want to build practical consulting capability without taking people off project.
Key benefits:
- builds practical skills through realistic consulting scenarios.
- Makes career development, coaching and team learning easier.
- Reveals blind spots, capability gaps and avoided conversations.
- Turns 199 frameworks, tools and techniques into practical action.
Format and contents:
- Boxed physical card deck
- 51 real-world consulting scenario cards
- 199 practical frameworks, tools and techniques
- Each scenario covers what good looks like, what to do next and what to avoid
- Designed for individual reflection, coaching and team conversations
Pricing
Member Price: $89 ($30 saving)
Non-paid member: $119
Project Status Report
Product Name
Project Status Report Template
Product Type
Editable PowerPoint template pack
Short Promise
A practical, executive ready status report template you can use for your next status update.
Product Description
Turn complex project progress into a clear, decision-ready update that shows leaders what matters now, where attention is needed and what comes next.
Ideal Buyer
Consultants, engagement owners and project or program leaders who provide weekly or fortnightly updates to sponsors, boards or steering groups. It is especially useful when an update must help leaders orient quickly, understand risks and make decisions rather than simply list activity.
Key Benefits
- Help decision-makers understand the project quickly and see exactly where their attention is needed.
- Make progress visible at a glance by anchoring updates to outcomes, milestones, delivery dates and clear RAG signals.
- Turn status reporting into decision support by making required actions, ownership, timing and the consequences of delay explicit.
Format and Contents
One editable 10-slide PowerPoint file containing:
- Guidance on why status reporting matters and the six elements of a good status report.
- A format-selection guide explaining when to use each option.
- Template 01: a lite weekly email status update.
- Template 02: a full one-page status report with reporting details, RAG status, milestones, risks, achievements and next-period activities.
- Template 03: a full one-page report with progress bars and an additional Decisions Required panel.
ConsultantCafe 5Cs
Product Type — Consulting career development framework
Short Promise — Consulting is not just about client work. See what good consulting looks like.
Product Description
Being good at client delivery is one part of a consulting career. Knowing your value, strengthening your craft, working well with colleagues, earning client trust and contributing beyond the project all matter.
ConsultantCafe 5Cs brings these five domains into one practical framework: Consultant, Craft, Colleagues, Clients and Community. Each C explains why it's important, its career impact, what good looks like and what to watch out for. Use the five-question self-check to identify where you need attention, then choose an action to work on this quarter.
Ideal Buyer
Consultants who want to take a more deliberate approach to their development, particularly when client demands, billable work or one area of their career is crowding out the others.
Key Benefits
- Recognise what good consulting looks like across all five Cs, including the judgement that turns expertise into effective delivery.
- Spot neglected areas and the pitfalls of letting one C dominate your career.
- Turn honest reflection into a specific development goal and an action for this quarter.
Format and Contents
One 15-slide PowerPoint presentation (.pptx): 10 framework slides, including the cover and overview, five detailed C profiles, a balancing-act page, a five-question self-check and five practical actions. The final five slides provide ConsultantCafé membership information.
Customer benefit: See what good consulting looks like, identify the area that needs attention, and choose a practical action towards a stronger, more balanced consulting career.
ConsultantCafe Capability Map
Product Name
The ConsultantCafé Consulting Capability Map
Product Type
Capability map / reference tool
Short Promise
See the breadth of consulting capability in one place, so you can recognise what you know and decide what to develop next.
Product Description
Build a clearer picture of the capabilities behind a great consulting career and a consulting firm. This one-page map brings together seven domains, 39 capability areas and 172 supporting elements.
Explore the connections between people and craft, winning and delivering work, practice knowledge, firm operations, growth and leadership. Use it to guide development conversations and consider where to focus next—without overlooking the capabilities beyond your current engagement.
Ideal User
Consultants considering their next development priorities, and consulting firms reviewing the capabilities their people and practice need.
Key Benefits
- Consider skills beyond delivery, including winning work, commercial control and practice development.
- See how your consulting craft fits into the wider business of consulting.
- Give development conversations clear capability areas to work through.
Format and Contents
A one slide PowerPoint presentation
The map covers Market & Growth; People & Craft; Winning Work; Delivering Work; Practice & Knowledge; Firm/Company Operations; and Leadership, Governance & Brand.
