Consulting is a rapidly growing profession. While there are hundreds of technical specialties, the skills, abilities and attitudes of consultants are consistent.

This course will ensure you are aware of what consulting is, what consultants do and what you need to be successful. It will emphasize the fact that you are selling your specialized knowledge, and so consulting is a business as well as a profession.

This course will help you evaluate your strengths and weaknesses and provide the guidance on how you can develop and enhance your consulting career.

To be successful in any business—including consulting—you have to be known and recognized. Producing top quality research and analysis is not enough.

One of the best ways to get known and recognized is to know a lot of people, and to continue to meet new people.

People who know you and your work, and trust you, can become some of your key supporters and promoters.

This course will delve into the “whys and hows” of networking and give you a structured plan on how to successfully develop your network.

The role of the researcher, analyst or consultant has become more challenging in the past decade. And it will become even more challenging in the coming years.

There are 3 main factors at play.

• An information glut—information doubling about every 2 years.
• Social media that permits totally unfiltered information on a global scale.
• Formerly trusted sources, such as peer-reviewed publications and the media, being co-opted and manipulated.

What is one supposed to do to ensure objective and accurate analysis?

This course on “Bulletproofing Your Work” takes you through a serious of questions and steps to help you understand this changing socio-political context and what you can do—and how you can do it—to maximize the objectivity and accuracy of anything you research and write.