Recently I have been in contact and in detailed discussion with an accreditation body for independent consultants. After so much deliberations I am still a bit as doubtful as I was in the beginning of the discussion. Such accreditation organisation helps aspiring consultants to join the management consulting industry by providing a platform for independent consultants start their business and provide them a vehicle of which to start their practice. This is of course helpful to retiring executives who have a small network of contact in various industries and are looking for further work, or executives who are frustrated with their current employment and seeking to do something else.
The rewards in the consulting industry is immense but the risk are high as well as any other current management consultant know. Now my dilemma in joining such accreditation organisation and paying the fees they require to enter is based on the fact that I am already in the management consulting world for the past 10 years and so far my main experience is that most independent consultants secure assignments based on their talents and merits and not based on which organisation accredited them. I might be wrong and I would appreciate if someone out there can correct me.
In operating a consulting business the risk and rewards are high, the question is do you as a consultant remain a one-man band or do you venture to the crowd and let your voice be heard or do you take cover under a promising umbrella on a cloudy day?
1 comment:
depends on how much people you actually know
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