March 29, 2024

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