Certificate in Management Consulting Essentials (CMCE)
Acquire the skills you need to drive change as a lean six sigma consultant.
Customised to any sector
Whether you wish to train as an independent consultant or develop your internal consultancy skills for your employer, this course will provide you with the key foundation skills and practical tools you need. Follow it with the Diploma, then on to achieve Certified Consultant status.
The Certificate in Management Consulting Essentials (CMCE) course builds confidence in your approach and ability to facilitate change, provides a sound base for further professional development and identifies you as a qualified practitioner recognised in 40+ countries.
The course includes an overview of typical consultancy interventions and introduces a range of tools, skills and techniques, including communication, knowledge sourcing, research and analysis, project delivery, risk, quality assurance and effective personal contribution.
We can bring in Guest speakers and coaches who are world renowned presenters and published authors on coaching.
What you will learn in 3 days:
- Your Role as a Consultant
- Internal and external consultancy - The pros and cons for success?
- How to make great first impressions?
- Effective Influencing skills
- Scoping projects – Identifying needs of the business
- Rapport skills - creating effective relationships
- Developing proposals
- Presenting proposals - Presentation Skills
- Effective meetings skills
- Key Facilitation skills – running workshops
- Analysis tools and techniques (Value Stream Mapping and Lean)
- Stakeholder analysis, change management and engaging the people
- Project Management and Visual Management techniques
- Generating great case studies and internal marketing
- Organisation Development
- Practicing TGROW coaching methodology
What you will take away from this action packed workshop:
- A comprehensive delegate folder
- "Consulting For Real People" paperback book
- An understanding of your development needs through 10 self reflection workshop elements
- 23 high impact tools/techniques to use in your role
- A step by step model to follow
- An understanding of what not to do!
- Access to members area of site - for free tools and advice
- A learning experience to be remembered (For the right reasons!)
Course Director: Lee Kemp FIC, CMC
Contact us for more information.
Some feedback from participants
“The course was excellent, well paced and interesting. It was of particular interest to me because of its lean approach, but might have needed further explanation of this aspect if given to participants without prior experience of lean” Inger, Sept 2009
“The 3 day classroom training was well organized! There was enough time to practice some of the key learning’s and to collaborate with others. I can just highly recommend to all internal and external consultants to book the course work to gain personally knowledge around consulting” Arno, May 2009
“I see this course as a valuable aid to anyone pursuing the role of a consultant. If your goal is to understand the core skills of a professional consultant, or to reflect on your own skills as a practicing consultant, then this course will meet both. The practical assignment which follows the 3 day course is where I personally enhanced my skills and development further as a consultant” John, Dec 2009
“This is an excellent consultants training course and provides an introduction to management consultancy. It is aimed at people who are considering a move in to the profession from a functional discipline, or for those who wish to obtain insight to the skills and knowledge needed in the field of management consultancy. As the first in a range of consultancy training courses it is ideal for those considering a career in consultancy, new to the profession or existing practitioners seeking their first step to achieving professional accredited status. Those employed as internal consultants are able to develop a more holistic approach to their consultancy interventions” Rolando, Dec 2009
“Good development of some key foundation tools and confirmation of some aspects of Consulting I believed I already knew. Some new ideas, a very good facilitator and simple to understand explanations” Shaun, Dec 2009
