Consulting Insight
My Week in Consulting
If consulting is ambigous and messy, inside a single week, how do you stay steady enough to do good work and enjoy it?
Best Self
3 Chat-GPT scripts to find your consulting strength
Ever wonder why some work gives you momentum, some meetings stay with you for days, and some client moments make you feel genuinely powerful? These three ChatGPT scripts help you decode the pattern and use it to grow as a consultant.
News
Whats Percolating at ConsultantCafe?
I pause and give you a proper update and, more importantly, say thank you.
Technique
Laws Consultants Should Know
Consulting is messy. These timeless laws help you spot patterns early, manage the chaos, and steer complex work toward outcomes that actually stick.
Consulting Insight
My Consulting Capability Map you can download
This one-page capability map brings together 39 capability areas and 172 supporting elements across the full system of consulting to help you build your career with intention.
Best Self
No Room for “Jacket on the Chair” Ethics: Consulting Won’t Recover Without Real Integrity
A reflection on consulting ethics that looks beyond scandals to the everyday decisions that define credibility, culture and the kind of professional you want to become.
Consulting Insight
Some Of My Personal Ideas To Disrupt and Reinvent Consulting
Disruptive ideas to reinvent consulting, from open IP, expert swarms to mutuals, that challenge the unwritten rules of consulting.
Consulting Insight
Consulting Is Not Linear. Here Is What Actually Changes over time
A graph of how consulting changes over time that started as a bit of humour and turned into insight. One line says it all....
Technique
Is Your Program Actually Viable?
Missed dates and stressed teams aren’t the problem. They’re symptoms. The Viable Systems Model (VSM) can help consultants diagnose structural underlying issues.
Consulting Insight
So you're in the ADF and considering becoming a consultant
Leaving the ADF can feel like stepping onto a new map. What you need is the civilian language, a few consulting frameworks, and this 180 day plan to turn experience into influence.
Best Self
The Hard Realisation About Utilisation That No One Tells You
Many consultants mistake high utilisation for career security. It is not! When the chips are down, firms don't value what you have done. They value the relationships you have built.
Consulting Insight
Timesheets Without Tears: How to Make Them Work for You
Timesheets are necessary commercial hygiene in consulting, but they also reveal culture. Done well, they’re quick and useful; done poorly, they steal Fridays.