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October 2015
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When it comes to business expertise, sometimes the person you need is actually someone who already works for you. Internal employees are already familiar with your organization, and may have the specific expertise to help you develop your next product - or streamline a process, saving your business millions. Developing these internal consultants gives you another way to increase job satisfaction, prepare and train your company's future leaders, and create an ongoing system of support to ensure initiatives continue on-track after you've finished your work with an outside consultant.

However, your internal talent may not quite be ready to become the next leader you need. Being a valuable consultant is about more than possessing expertise in a given area. An effective consultant requires a very specific skill set to turn concepts into actionable business practices. Fortunately, these skills can be taught - so maybe it's time to send your promising experts to class!
Benefits of Working with an Internal Consultant       

Internal consultants are an invaluable resource to support a variety of tasks, such as:
  • Collaborating on a new product
  • Fixing or improving a process
  • Streamlining a product or process to save money
  • Continuing an initiative after you've finished working with an outside consultant
Internal consultants are already familiar with the organization, and have the specific expertise to apply a solution or improvement as efficiently as possible. The next vital internal consultant at your organization could be a human resource professional, a leader within your company, or even an average employee who simply lives with a problem every day, and comes up with an idea to make things better.

Working to develop your internal experts into internal consultants is also a great way to improve job satisfaction and create a pool of future leaders for your organization. Time and again, noted business journals, such as Forbes and The Wall Street Journal, have highlighted the importance of retaining talent, developing leaders and preparing for succession planning. Training your internal experts in the skills required to be effective consultants is a great way to get employees more engaged in the organization, leverage valuable firsthand knowledge, and prepare them for future leadership opportunities.
The Right Training Creates More Effective Consultants             

Consultants aren't just the people who have the expertise to create a product, improve a process or develop a business. Consultants must also be able to earn trust, communicate clearly, and create and drive a concept from idea to action - which requires a very specific set of skills. Through an effective consulting skills training program, your internal talent can learn how to: 
  • Effectively deal with a variety of people and situations Consulting
  • Negotiate more persuasively
  • Facilitate discussion and the free exchange of information
  • Communicate how the work they're doing impacts the business

Beyond soft skills, your aspiring talent needs to learn how to turn ideas into actionable plans. To facilitate their role as internal consultant within your organization, your budding experts will develop specific proficiencies, including: 

  • How to understand the analytics that drive value for the business, and how to turn this data into actionable plans
  • How to utilize a data collection model to effectively and accurately compile information
  • How to conduct meetings around data collection for specific issues, and subsequent feedback meetings to review data
  • How to map out action steps to prepare a plan for implementation
  • How to effectively communicate a plan in a way that creates confidence and buy-in from business leaders and peers

Once consultants have mastered these skills, they're in the perfect position to utilize their expertise on behalf of their organizations. Without these skills, even the most earnest experts are powerless to effect change.

 

Let Expert Access Provide Your Experts with the Skills to Succeed   

Let our expert consultants give your aspiring consultants the skills they need to succeed. Whether through a prepared consulting training program, or a workshop that is customized to meet your needs, we've got the partners who can turn your internal talent into your organization's biggest assets. Give us a call today to discuss your needs.
 

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