Good Consultancy Practices

Tips for Consultants

2007-12-31T04:27:00.000-08:00

before visiting your would be client, acquire domain knowledge

when u visit your would be client, speak in his jargon
not ISO 9000 jargon

if u dont have a website, make one
it is free on Google's blogger

maintain confidentiality

study his competitor's USP
(visit their website)
suggest one for him

understand his management style

understand his vision and mission and quality policy

Tips for Breaking into and Succeeding in Management Consulting

by Jennie S. Bev

Management consulting is one of the professions that endure in a slow economy. Why? Because more than ever, companies need consultants to help them increase revenues and cut costs.
Management consulting is also known as one of the highest paid professions in the United States. A recent survey by the Association of Management Consulting Firms found entry-level consultants earn an average of $58,000 annually while senior partners earn an average of $259,000 (including bonuses and profit sharing). Self-employed consultants may earn $100 to $350 per hour.

Therefore, if you’ve been contemplating to break into this field, wait no more. The financial reward is a real incentive. Other perks, such as intellectual challenge, opportunity to learn, helping others to learn, self-satisfaction and prestige may further motivate you to enter the field.

Now let’s talk about the two paths of management consulting to consider -- working for others and going solo. If you don’t have much experience or are a new graduate, working for others is probably the wisest choice. If you have already gained sufficient verifiable professional experience in a specialized field, going solo is a highly feasible option.

Whichever path you’d choose, here are some tips to break into and succeed this field:
Do your homework. Get ready for the job. Equip yourself with the required (and recommended) skills: problem-solving, communication, management, computer, and some foreign language.

Contrary to popular belief, you don’t need to have an MBA or even any degree to break into this field, but you will need to have specific personal attributes to succeed. Among them are leadership and the ability to work well under stress.

Educate yourself continuously as knowledge evolves consistently and new ways of solving the old and new problems continually emerge.
Know what to expect from the job. Familiarize yourself with the job titles, what their job descriptions are, the typical consulting job cycle, and (even better) how sample proposals are planned and written for clients.

If your career goal is to work for a consulting firm, familiarize yourself with the professional consulting job-hunt process and interviews. For instance, the interview stage for a consulting position includes personality and resume questions, communication questions and business case questions.

If you are considering to going solo, you’ll need to assess your working style and aptitude for entrepreneurship suitability, planning for success, advertising and publicity, pricing your services, and writing a consulting agreement.

While it is not an absolute necessity and not many clients require it, you may want to pursue a professional designation to take the consulting career to the next level!

Last but not least, management consulting is a very lucrative field and recession-proof. In fact, some specialized consulting fields are experiencing a whopping increase of revenue. Now get ready to plunge into this exciting and highly rewarding profession. Just make sure to do your homework properly to ensure success.

Jennie S. Bev is a San Francisco Bay Area cost-reduction consultant, instructional designer, and the author of Guide to Become a Management Consultant published by FabJob.com, Inc. (July 2002). Download the content from FabJob.com, Inc.. FabJob.com is named #1 to get published online by Writer’s Digest (January 2002).

She can be contacted at http://www.blogger.com/. She is also managing editor of BookReviewClub.com

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2006-12-02T18:09:00.000-08:00

www.business-ethics-pledge.org/index.shtml
http://www.business-ethics-pledge.org/business-ethics-pledge.shtml
Endangering human life

Consultancy and Certification

2006-11-04T21:33:00.000-08:00

Consultancy and Certification are professional services

Consultants guide the clients in obtaining certification
Certification bodies audit the client and certify the client

ETHICS demands that these two professional services must be rendered by two independent bodies free from bias and commercial interests

if a consultant has a tie up with the certification body
then the credibility of the certificate obtained is in doubt

the quality of the consultancy rendered can be gauged by the certification body
provided that there are no vested interests

The Quality Council of India is looking into these malpractices particularly with regard to ISO 9001 / ISO 14001 certification

These malpractices may be reported to QCI
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RE-ENGINEERING THE CERTIFICATION PROCESS TO CIRCUMVENT UNETHICAL PRACTICES
http://www.ficci.com/studies/article.pdf

LINKS TO ETHICS WEBSITES
http://www.ethicsweb.ca/resources/business/institutions.html

CONSULTANTS CODE OF PRACTICE
http://web.data.org.uk/data/consultants/code_practice.php

BIS, being a certification body, does not provide any form of consultancy services for implementation of the requirement of IS/ISO 22000 under its Food Safety Management Systems

Certification Scheme.
These guidelines contain information on processing of application, procedure for grant of
licence, obligations and responsibilities of the organizations interested in obtaining licences
conforming to IS/ISO 22000:2005 standard.
http://www.bis.org.in/cert/fsms_guide.pdf

SO YOU WANT TO BE A CONSULTANT ?
http://www.unixwiz.net/techtips/be-consultant.html

Code of Ethics

Preamble
Consultancy Services make significant contribution to development of the nation. For the Nation and the Society to derive maximum benefits from the consultancy services, it is essential that, in addition to being of high professional standard, these services are of the highest universally accepted moral and ethical standards.

With a view to achieve this objective Consultancy Development Centre (CDC) has framed a "Code of Ethics" which is mandatory for all members of the Centre to follow.

This Code presupposes that every member of CDC is basically a law abiding, honest, straight forward, non malicious, non vindictive, fair and just, impartial, selfless and trust worthy citizen of the society. In addition, the member must follow directives of the Code in his Professional Practice.
The Codes are:
Responsibility to the Society
Relation with other Consultants
Responsibility to Profession
Relation with Employees
Competence
Relations with Clients
Integrity
Job Procurement
Impartiality

http://www.cdc.org.in/mem_code.asp

UNQUALIFIED CONSULTANTS and AUDITORS
http://www.iso.org/iso/en/iso9000-14000/addresources/articles/pdf/debate_2-02.pdf

List of Registered QMS Consultants with NRBPT
http://www.qcin.org/html/nrbpt/nrbpt_reg_consultants.php #

The CEO of TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT CONSULTANTS is a certified quality auditor, certified by American Society for Quality
http://www.asq.org/certification/quality-auditor/index.html

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