Consulting Insight
Chapter 2: I'm going to try to bring consultant tools, templates and techniques to life using Pole Enterprises as my case study. This is 2nd in the series on how to do customer journey mapping. The 1st was Mrs Claus letter.
Consulting Insight
Every café has its menu, and so should every consultant. From flat whites (T&M) to tasting menus (fixed price), pricing models shape how clients experience your value. In this week’s Consultant Café, discover some price model blends that work.
Consulting Insight
Cost is maths, price is reputation strategy. Get them confused, and you risk cash flow, clients, and credibility
Consulting Insight
My old career advice was simple: go wide before you go deep. But consulting has changed, and so has my view.
Consulting Insight
If your work blends into the background, you’ll be replaced by the next consulting firm promising something shinier.
Consulting Insight
Consulting looks glamorous from the outside—big clients, strategy decks, and corner offices. But beneath the polish lies a tougher, truer story. This article busts the biggest consulting myths to reveal what the craft is really about: grit, growth, and solving problems that matter.
Consulting Insight
The bench isn’t career purgatory, it’s consulting’s most honest mirror—and your biggest accelerator if you use it right. Off the field is where you sharpen skills, build relationships, and create IP. Play offence across the 4 Cs—Consultant, Clients, Colleagues, Community—and you’ll be first pick.
Consulting Insight
Done well, comms is a strategic tool that drives understanding, reduces resistance, and builds momentum. This article shows how to move your plan from nice-to-have to an essential consulting craft.
Consulting Insight
Consulting rules of thumb that no one tells you. Kim shares his hard-earned lessons.
Best Self
Crack the code of consulting. Let one of the 4Cs of Consulting dominate, and you risk burnout, boredom, or becoming that consultant everyone avoids. Nurture them all, even if it is hard, and your career will flourish.
Consulting Insight
AI is changing consulting. But change is what consulting is built on. Your consulting career is not about avoiding disruption. It is about mastering it. In the AI era, that is your biggest opportunity yet.
Consulting Insight
Change management thrives when you treat it as a system, not a checklist. This framework forces you to think that way. The six streams of effort work in concert. Miss one, and the whole thing wobbles.