Category: Consulting skills

What Is Business & How Do Consultants Help?

What is business, and how do consultants help them? These sound like simple inquiries, but we can assure you that there is a lot packed into these short questions. In this article, we’ll be going over some of the basic, albeit common questions asked about the business world. What is Business? Depending on who you…

Financial Engineering: A New Consulting Frontier?

Management consultants are known for their expertise in business strategy and operations. However, because most large businesses rely heavily on numbers, most consulting firms provide advice based on financials as well. After all, ultimately what matters most to any corporation is increasing profits. As a result, one growing practice that represents a relatively untapped potential…

Applying Agile Methods To Your Business

Changes are happening faster than ever for businesses today. Agile methods acknowledge that this calls for a responsive and flexible form of software development. Agile methods focus on adaptive planning, customer input, and short delivery times. The application of Agile methods to your business could result in reduced project costs and greater customer satisfaction. Let’s…

Empathy in Business: An Unsung Resource

Empathy in business, if it has gotten any attention at all, has typically been relegated to the realm of Human Resources. It gets glossed over in orientation and diversity training, and after that, it’s primarily a tool for conflict resolution. But more and more authorities in the business world are recognizing that empathy is a…

Self Management: A Key To Success

Self-management is not all that different from traditional management. In a professional context, a manager is accountable for the performance of a team. He or she must assign roles and responsibilities and develop processes that enable the team to be productive, efficient, and effective. To be an effective manager requires a deep understanding of the…

Leadership Training: What’s The ROI?

For all levels of leaders - from brand new managers to C-suite executives - leadership training offers a path towards expanding the capacity of leaders in your organization to operate in the roles they currently possess, and the roles you hope they will grow into. Companies that invest in leadership training understand that investing in…

Group Case Interview: How To Prepare & Crush It

Group case interviews are all the rage as firms like EY expand their use in the consulting interview process. Case interviews are the dreaded and most challenging parts of a consulting interview, but they are typically conducted in a one-on-one context. Most candidates focus all their prep on these individual interviews. However, candidates should also…

What is Strategy Sprint?

Today, we're learning about Strategy Sprint, a hands on consulting project opportunity. Want to get some real world experience to test out whether you're interested in consulting, amp up your case practice, or get ready for that consulting job after you get the offer? Strategy Sprint might be for you! Apply today or learn more.…

Personality Tests: 6 Top (and Useful) Tests for 2022

“Personality test” is a phrase that evokes a wide range of reactions. Some find personality tests highly useful; others find them useless. Our take? If not overdone, they can be effective tools for self-discovery, adding great value to your personal and professional life. If you want to learn more about yourself, there is a test…

Skill Will Matrix: Leadership Tool

In the cult-classic film, Kill Bill, the character Beatrix Kiddo possesses two qualities that earn her the top performance spot according to The Skill Will Matrix. Albeit a fictional character, for Kiddo, those qualities would be a fierce will and “a particular set of skills.” The score that any manager would give this high-will/high-skill team…