The Consultant's Quick Start Guide: An Action Plan for Your First Year in Business - Brossura

Biech, Elaine

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ISBN 10: 0787956678 ISBN 13: 9780787956677

Casa editrice: Pfeiffer & Co, 2001

Riassunto

Your complete blueprint for starting out in the consulting world!

Consulting can be a most rewarding career--but being good at consulting is not always enough to keep your business profitable. The Consultant's Quick Start Guide offers a practical approach to setting up a consulting business. Throughout the guide, Elaine Biech--author of the best-selling The Business of Consulting--shares both her own secrets as well as those of numerous other successful consultants. With a focus on the business side of consulting, Biech takes you through a painless, fill-in-the-blanks, step-by-step process for setting up your consulting firm.

The book includes information on how to:
* Develop a dynamic business plan
* Market consulting services
* Establish a professional office
* Meet critical legal requirements
* Change for services
* Build client relationships
* Grow the business
* Ensure continued professional growth
* Make money in the business

Learn the skills you need to be a successful consultant with this indispensable guide!

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Recensione

"Elaine biech is truly the consultant′s consultant. Anyone considering a move to an independent consulting career should devour this book." Diane Hessan, CEO, Communispace Corporation

"The Consultant′s Quick Start Guide is an invaluable resource for all new and seasoned consultants. Elaine Biech has packed into one book, tools and references that would take most consultants years to learn and develop." Richard Chang, CEO, Richard Chang Associates, Inc.,Author of, The Passion Plan and Performance Scorecards

"Elaine Biech builds your confidence to take your first steps into consulting. She asks important, tough questions, and them helps you answer them. Read the book, answer its questions, and you will be well–prepared for your first year." Geoff Belman, consultant and author of The Consultant′s Calling

"There′s a reason Elaine Biech has the Midas Touch. She′s the best at what she does, and she′s generous with all her inside information. Even old pros are sure to pick up a few golden nuggets." Elizabeth Engstrom, Director, Maui Writers Retreat

"Elaine Biech does it yet again! She provides what most say can only be learned in the school of hard knocks! Take her wonderful advice to heart!" Beverly Kaye, President, Career Systems International, Inc., Co–author of WSJ Best Seller, "Love ′Em or Lose ′Em: Getting Good People to Stay"

L'autore

ELAINE BIECH Elaine Biech is president and managing partner of ebb associates, a strategic implementation, leadership development and experiential learning consulting firm. The consulting firm assists large organizations to work through large-scale change and serves clients in both the private and public sector. Her clients include the American Society for Training and Development, Hershey Chocolate, the IRS, Johnson Wax, the U.S. Navy, McDonald's Corporation, Land's End, Marathon Oil, PricewaterhouseCoopers. Elaine is the author of over two dozen books and articles.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Pfeiffer & Co
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0787956678
• ISBN 13: 9780787956677
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 243