From Junior Consultant to Partner Material
(New to StrategyTraining.com)

This program is designed to help you expedite your professional development over a 21-day period. The path from junior professional to being viewed as partner material (or executive material if you are outside of consulting) requires a refined set of skills, leadership traits, and a strategic mindset that are often overlooked. 

Here are some of the things covered in this program:

- The most fundamental thing you need to succeed within a consulting firm (the same is applicable to any organization)
- How to approach changing things within your organization
- The mindset that makes someone a very successful consultant (the same mindset gives you a hard-to-copy competitive advantage outside of consulting as well)
- How to set yourself up for promotion (in consulting and outside of consulting)
- What are the skills consultants have to develop to be considered high potential by senior partners (the same skills are needed to be viewed as a high-potential leader within any organization)
- How to communicate with your principals, partners, and other senior decision-makers
- How to position yourself as a rising star worthy of advancement
- How to handle situations when your superior is upset
- What is one thing you should not do when a senior manager, principal, or senior partner on the team is upset about a situation related to your work
- How to ask senior people for help in a way that reduces the chances they get annoyed with you
- How to disagree with colleagues in a way that reduces the chances you will alienate them or make them not like you 
- Learning plan (a list of specific resources to focus on, step by step) for developing a strong foundation as a management consultant

Not just for consultants:

While the guidance in this program is given within the context of management consulting, the skills, characteristics, and mindset covered in this program can help you rise as a high-performing leader within any organization. Long-term members know that no matter which organization (whether you are in consulting or not) you are a part of, you can walk away from any of our programs with unique insights, understanding, and skills that can set you apart within your organization. The majority of our members are not in consulting. The skills we teach are even more powerful outside of consulting because they are so rare outside of consulting.

Accessing the Program:

If you are an Insider or Legacy member, here is the direct link to the program. Not a member yet and want NOT to miss another day? Enroll here (scroll down to membership options) and select either an Insider or Legacy membership:

www.strategytraining.com/

This program and other StrategyTraining.com programs are your chance to become the high-performing leader your firm is seeking (and the world desperately needs). 

Take care,

Kris Safarova
CEO, FIRMSconsulting.com

P.S. StrategyTraining.com is the most powerful platform in the world to help you make your mark as a leader who moves the world forward.

We have just released the second update (219 SLIDES) for Tech M&A Merger Strategy Study Phase 2 (total of 421 SLIDES) in the Strategy Control Room (Advanced Level). This is a continuation of the Tech M&A study on StrategyTraining.com. This is Phase 2 when we are preparing for Day 1 to launch the business.

The second update of Tech M&A Merger Strategy Study Phase 2 covers crucial topics such as:

• Role Descriptors for Newco’s Management Team

• Base Case Scenario Analysis

• Mapping existing businesses onto proposed strategic model

• Business operations

• Technical operations

• Existing Customer IT Needs Assessment

• Technology options and recommendations

• Technical Options

• Technical Infrastructure Priorities

• System Integration Methodologies & Migration Model

• People Processes and HRM in Newco - Approach, Reward strategy, & Conditions of service

• POV on Share Option Schemes

• People Processes and HRM in Newco - Proposed grading system

• Communication and Change Management

• Preparing for ‘Day One’ and beyond

HOW TO FIND THE TECH M&A MERGER STRATEGY STUDY PHASE 2 (202 + 219 SLIDES):

1. Log in to The Strategy Control Room, Advanced Level, membership area.
2. See the "FULL ENGAGEMENTS" dropdown. 
3. Select "11 Tech M&A Merger Strategy Study Phase 2 (421 SLIDES)."
4. Tech M&A Merger Strategy Study Phase 2 consists of 36 parts for the updates 1 and 2.

If you are The Strategy Control Room, Advanced Level, member, here is the direct link to this particular update (202 + 219 SLIDES).

If you joined an Advanced Level of the Strategy Control Room today, you would find the most powerful strategy, problem-solving, consulting, and results-oriented leadership reading library in the world. The resources include:

• Michael's explanation slides for selected programs on StrategyTraining.com

• 10 full engagements

• Change Management Influence & Persuasion Center of Excellence 

• Detailed Business Case Methodology Center of Excellence 

• Encyclopedia of Strategy Analyses Center of Excellence 

• One-Week Immersion: Consulting Onboarding / Consulting Mastery Center of Excellence

• 31 proposals

• Flipcharts

• Layout guides

• 17 strategy and problem-solving books which we do not make available anywhere else

• 2 brand new strategy and problem-solving books just released and not available anywhere else

• 11 book drafts never before available and not available anywhere else

• Case interview materials for Felix, Rafik, Samantha, and Sanjeev, case interview exhibits, case interview solutions

• The evolution of corporate strategy

• The business case toolkit

• Implementation and operation toolkit

• Corporate strategy toolkit

• Strategy maps

• And more 

Enroll as a Strategy Control Room Member

We have just released the first update (202 SLIDES) for Tech M&A Merger Strategy Study Phase 2 in the Strategy Control Room (Advanced Level). This is a continuation of the Tech M&A study on StrategyTraining.com. This is Phase 2 when we are preparing for Day 1 to launch the business.

Tech M&A Merger Strategy Study Phase 2 covers crucial topics such as:

• Engagement Logic and Charters

• Project Book and Executive Summary

• Strategic Ambition and Business Model

• Governance, Macro Organisation, and the ‘Executive Dashboard’

• Finance, Funding, Shareholding and SEP criteria

• Financial Model of the Merged Entity

• People, H&M and Communication

• Technical Options and Risks

• Legal

• Visualizing ‘Day One’

• Conclusion and the Way Forward

• Understanding the Hardware Segment

• Understanding the Software Segment

• Understanding the Professional Services and Support Segment

• Competitor analysis
  

HOW TO FIND THE TECH M&A MERGER STRATEGY STUDY PHASE 2 (202 SLIDES):

1. Log in to The Strategy Control Room, Advanced Level, membership area.
2. See the "FULL ENGAGEMENTS" dropdown. 
3. Select "11 Tech M&A Merger Strategy Study Phase 2 (202 SLIDES)."
4. Tech M&A Merger Strategy Study Phase 2 consists of 15 parts for the first update.

If you are The Strategy Control Room, Advanced Level, member, here is the direct link to this particular update (202 SLIDES).

If you joined an Advanced Level of the Strategy Control Room today, you would find the most powerful strategy, problem-solving, consulting, and results-oriented leadership reading library in the world. The resources include:

• Michael's explanation slides for selected programs on StrategyTraining.com

• 10 full engagements

• Change Management Influence & Persuasion Center of Excellence 

• Detailed Business Case Methodology Center of Excellence 

• Encyclopedia of Strategy Analyses Center of Excellence 

• One-Week Immersion: Consulting Onboarding / Consulting Mastery Center of Excellence

• 31 proposals

• Flipcharts

• Layout guides

• 17 strategy and problem-solving books which we do not make available anywhere else

• 2 brand new strategy and problem-solving books just released and not available anywhere else

• 11 book drafts never before available and not available anywhere else

• Case interview materials for Felix, Rafik, Samantha, and Sanjeev, case interview exhibits, case interview solutions

• The evolution of corporate strategy

• The business case toolkit

• Implementation and operation toolkit

• Corporate strategy toolkit

• Strategy maps

• And more 

Enroll as a Strategy Control Room Member

9 Reasons Leaders Are Ignored
https://www.strategytraining.com/programs/9-reasons-leaders-are-ignored?category_id=116316

We just released the first 5 episodes of a new 10-part video program available to Insiders and Legacy members. In this new program, you will discover the 9 key reasons why leaders are often ignored in meetings and other forms of communication. You will also learn the strategies to effectively address each of these issues. If you are being overlooked by your colleagues, you will be able to identify the root causes and learn how to start fixing them.

The overarching goal of this program is to show you that there are ways to meaningfully elevate your level of executive presence and gravitas. I want you to leave this experience with the conviction that you can build your executive presence and communication skills and command the attention and respect you deserve.

As some of you know, I have personally experienced the immense frustration of having credit for my work stolen or being dismissed in group settings. Those were often humiliating experiences. Through rigorous study, experimentation, testing, exploring various fields of study and pulling relevant pieces together, and working with some of the most elite voice coaches in the world, I was able to transform the way I present myself and command the attention of any audience. I also helped many people do the same. 

Drawing upon years of hard-earned expertise, this is a rare opportunity to learn from someone who has been in your shoes (and likely worse) and successfully transformed their speaking abilities. I encourage you to approach this program with an open mind, a willingness to learn, and a commitment to promptly put the lessons into practice.

If you've ever felt sidelined or unheard, let this be the turning point. You have the power to change the narrative and emerge as a true leader within your organization and your industry.

If you are a Legacy or Insider member, you can access the "9 Reasons Leaders Are Ignored" series in your account on StrategyTraining.com. And if you are not a member, you can enroll here (scroll down to membership options):

www.strategytraining.com

Thank you for being a part of the StrategyTraining.com community. Your growth and success are our mission, and we are here to support you every step of the way.

Warm regards,

Kris Safarova 
Presiding Partner FIRMSconsulting.com & StrategyTraining.com

P.S. This program gives you a glimpse into what is inside the Speak Without Limits coaching program. (Michael teaches his equally powerful and unique broad range of approaches as well.) If you want to work directly with me and Michael to develop Communcation and Executive Presence skills, you can apply to join the Speak Without Limits (Executive Presence and Communication) coaching program. Learn more here and apply. I look forward to personally working with you to help you become a more confident, influential, and respected leader.

We have just released Part 2 of One-Week Immersion: Consulting Onboarding / Consulting Mastery (334 SLIDES) in the Strategy Control Room (Advanced Level), Center of Excellence.

Part 2 of One-Week Immersion is designed to equip you and your team with useful consulting tools before you deploy to the battleground. This particular update covers crucial topics such as:

• Coaching and Feedback

• Conducting Analyses in Strategy Projects

• Conducting Focus Interviews for Strategy Projects

• Conducting Telephone-Interview Based Strategy Research

• Confidentiality, Consulting Guard, Operating Procedures, Mindset and Behaviours

• Designing Slides in Strategy Projects

• Financial Analyses Framework

• High-Performance Organizations

• Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

• Managing a Strategy or Operations Engagement

• Managing Research in a Strategy Engagement

• Pairwise Feedback

• PDR and Effective meetings

• Roles and Responsibility Charting

• Strategy Map — Process Mapping

• Using Project Coordinators

• Writing Effective Strategy Presentations
  

HOW TO FIND THE ONE-WEEK IMMERSION: CONSULTING ONBOARDING / CONSULTING MASTERY PART 2 CENTER OF EXCELLENCE (334 SLIDES):

1. Log in to The Strategy Control Room, Advanced Level, membership area.
2. See the "CENTER OF EXCELLENCE" dropdown. 
3. Select "One-Week Immersion: Consulting Mastery Part 2."
4. One-Week Immersion: Consulting Onboarding / Consulting Mastery Part 2 consists of 17 parts. 

If you are The Strategy Control Room, Advanced Level, member, here is the direct link to this particular update (334 SLIDES).

If you joined an Advanced Level of the Strategy Control Room today, you would find the most powerful strategy, problem-solving, consulting, and results-oriented leadership reading library in the world. The resources include:

• Michael's explanation slides for selected programs on StrategyTraining.com

• 9 full engagements

• Change Management Influence & Persuasion Center of Excellence 

• Detailed Business Case Methodology Center of Excellence 

• One-Week Immersion: Consulting Onboarding / Consulting Mastery Center of Excellence

• 31 proposals

• Flipcharts

• Layout guides

• 17 strategy and problem-solving books which we do not make available anywhere else

• 2 brand new strategy and problem-solving books just released and not available anywhere else

• 11 book drafts never before available and not available anywhere else

• Case interview materials for Felix, Rafik, Samantha, and Sanjeev, case interview exhibits, case interview solutions

• The evolution of corporate strategy

• The business case toolkit

• Implementation and operation toolkit

• Corporate strategy toolkit

• Strategy maps

• And more 

Enroll as a Strategy Control Room Member

Analyzing a Strategy Partner's Career
(5 new episodes)

6 ASPC 17 RAP R4 Challenge the leadership
7 ASPC 18 RAP R5 Mapping a consultant's salary progression to partner 
8 ASPC 19 RAP R6 Myth. You learn best in a great environment 
9 ASPC 20 RAP R7 Different office environments = different career growth 
10 ASPC 21 RAP R8 You need two types of mentors to succeed

The Bill Matassoni Show, Season 3, Part 2
(5 new episodes)

TBMS S3 P2 - 6 Playing the role of a catalyst
TBMS S3 P2 - 7 Advance the interests of the entire system
TBMS S3 P2 - 8 The role of an external advisor
TBMS S3 P2 - 9 Malfunctioning systems
TBMS S3 P2 - 10 Understand objectives & risks

We have just released another Center of Excellence in the Strategy Control Room (Advanced Level).

One-Week Immersion: Consulting Onboarding / Consulting Mastery (744 SLIDES).

A powerful resource to use if you have one week before you're stuffed on a major consulting assignment: strategy, operations, etc. Even if you know nothing about management consulting, you can go through this training, and you will be more prepared than most consultants to operate at the highest standard. If you have a boutique consulting firm and you don't have time to train a new employee, you get them to work through these materials. If you're running a major firm, or a practice within a major firm, and you need to get people up to scratch, this will get them battle-ready within a week.

The 1-week Consulting Onboarding immersion covers crucial topics such as:

Explains the primary underlying analysis approach we use across all studies, including:

• Developing Stream Benefits and Opportunity Charts

• The bottom-up Business Case

• What to watch out for when quantifying opportunities

• Aspects to consider when facilitating the opportunity charting

• The two stages of opportunity charting

• The ways streams can improve the opportunity charting process

• Populating storyboard

• Breaking down costs for IT

• Quick Wins

• Moving the client along the emotional cycle of change

• P-E-R model

• Client's "red issues"

• Volatility drivers

• Updates

• Team structure and what each role entails

• Core tools utilized during a Phase 1 project

• Developing, conducting, and summarizing Focus interviews

• Sample Focus Interview Output Slides

• Developing Hypotheses

Beyond analyses, we cover other elements required to be an outstanding management consultant, including but not limited to:

• Consulting professionalism

• Competitive confidentiality

• Standard good practice framework

• Threats and guidelines for traveling

• General guidelines and protocol onsite, including use of time, phones, document security, project close down

• Offsite guidelines, including working meetings, eating, drinking and socializing, hotels

• Team dynamics, including teams as the key to success, team effectiveness, stages of team development, team structure and roles

• Strategy mapping 

• Coaching and feedback

• Managing change and resistance to change

• Meeting management

• Problem-solving/Team Building (PS/TB)

• Developing Presentations 

• Delivering Presentations

• Channel management and segmentation

• And much more

HOW TO FIND THE ONE-WEEK IMMERSION: CONSULTING ONBOARDING / CONSULTING MASTERY CENTER OF EXCELLENCE (744 SLIDES):

1. Log in to The Strategy Control Room, Advanced Level, membership area.
2. See the "CENTER OF EXCELLENCE" dropdown. 
3. Select "One-Week Immersion: Consulting Mastery."
4. One-Week Immersion: Consulting Onboarding / Consulting Mastery consists of 6 parts. 

If you are The Strategy Control Room, Advanced Level, member, here is the direct link to this particular update (744 SLIDES).

If you joined an Advanced Level of the Strategy Control Room today, you would find the most powerful strategy, problem-solving, consulting, and results-oriented leadership reading library in the world. The resources include:

• Michael's explanation slides for selected programs on StrategyTraining.com

• 9 full engagements

• Change Management Influence & Persuasion Center of Excellence 

• Detailed Business Case Methodology Center of Excellence 

• One-Week Immersion: Consulting Onboarding / Consulting Mastery Center of Excellence

• 31 proposals

• Flipcharts

• Layout guides

• 17 strategy and problem-solving books which we do not make available anywhere else

• 2 brand new strategy and problem-solving books just released and not available anywhere else

• 11 book drafts never before available and not available anywhere else

• Case interview materials for Felix, Rafik, Samantha, and Sanjeev, case interview exhibits, case interview solutions

• The evolution of corporate strategy

• The business case toolkit

• Implementation and operation toolkit

• Corporate strategy toolkit

• Strategy maps

• And more 

Enroll as a Strategy Control Room Member

New Legacy Coaching Session

Question:

"My firm adopts a structured approach to proposals, integrating proprietary frameworks and methodologies to guide our problem-solving process. Through StrategyTraining's insights on winning proposals, I recognise the importance of incorporating good logic, strategy and thinking. Proposals should also be able to:
1) ask the right question,
2) include some analyses to solve the problem, and
3) have a simple way of explaining the work the team is doing/seeking to do.

While I value the discipline my firm's process instills, I am curious as to how necessary it is to incorporate frameworks in proposals, given that client problems should be appreciated for their uniqueness and, ideally, tackled and solved using first principles. Additionally, in your experience, what common characteristics have you observed in proposals that secure client engagements versus those that do not succeed?"

Part 1: https://www.strategytraining.com/programs/collection-hmmfvgsgygm?cid=3652538&permalink=charissa-legacy-call-march-28-part-1-ff859c

Part 2: https://www.strategytraining.com/programs/collection-hmmfvgsgygm?cid=3652540&permalink=charissa-legacy-call-march-28-part-2-bf7725

Part 3: https://www.strategytraining.com/programs/collection-hmmfvgsgygm?cid=3652541&permalink=charissa-legacy-call-march-28-part-3-50506a

The Start-Up: Building a Luxury Brand. Part 5

https://www.strategytraining.com/programs/collection-j-9yf4x_dd8