The Freelance PM Consultant: Knowing Your 'Why' and Your 'What'
byThinking of becoming a freelance project management consultant? Here are five steps to keep in mind before you make the leap.
Thinking of becoming a freelance project management consultant? Here are five steps to keep in mind before you make the leap.
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Following her successful webinar, Consulting As a Service for Digital Transformation Program, Nathalie Bouchard, Executive Advisor and co-founder of Oneflexiwork, takes the innovative concept one step further and presents how it can support leaders in transforming their Digital Transformation vision into an actionable transformation program.
It’s essential that organizations select the right approach to project management, and that's a complicated and challenging activity that shouldn't be taken lightly.
현대 지도자들과 관리자들은 공식적인 권한이없는 사람들에게 영향을 줄 수있는 중요성을 인식하고 있습니다. 권위가 애매 모호한 개념이되기 때문에 현대 지도자들은 더 이상 단순히 다른 사람에게 무엇을 해야할지 말할 수 없습니다.
現代のリーダーやマネージャーは、正式な権限を持たない人々に影響を与えることの重要性をますます認識しています。 権威はあいまいな概念になっているので、現代の指導者は単に他者に何をすべきかを伝えることができません。
Are you thinking about becoming an agile consultant? How do you get started, what’s involved and what comes next? These are just some of the questions answered in this article, but it’s not all rainbows and unicorns.
Consulting on a project can be a very different experience than managing one directly. And if you are a PM, you may find yourself dealing with project consultants on a regular basis. But when consultants start to encroach on the project manager’s purview, there can be conflicts and issues.
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What do you think about when you reflect on the word "consultant"? A challenge that all consultants have is a product of their role, regardless of who employs them. No matter how knowledgeable, objective, insightful and expert we are, we have no control over what anyone does with our recommendations.
An advantage that project managers who embark on a consulting career have is their knowledge of project management. The challenge is that many project managers have never been educated in key consulting concepts.
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