What is Management Consulting? Info from CMC Canada website is presented below:

Management consulting is an independent professional advisory service assisting managers and organizations to achieve organizational purposes and objectives by solving management and business problems, identifying and seizing new opportunities, enhancing learning, and implementing changes.

Benefits of the CMC training:

Learn the Three Core Consulting Competencies:

1) Help clients assess their current situation, including the challenges and opportunities they can address to improve their business

2) Help clients develop strategies for growth and development

3) Help clients address change management processes while implementing recommendations

Develop your Consulting Strengths:

The five stages of the consulting process and the deliverables associated with each stage:

1) Introduction to consulting tools and techniques

2) The importance of considering all six functional areas of organization management (Human Resources, Strategic Planning, Finance, Operations, Information Technology,

and Marketing) during a consulting assignment

3) Teamwork using Tuckman’s model, including team building tools, techniques and opportunities

4) Client Communications, including simulated milestone presentations, meetings with a client, and key written reports

5) Change and Change Management, including tools and techniques related to assessing change readiness, understanding absorptive capacity, and managing change

CMC Canada Key Messages

CMC Canada - Certified Management Consultant designation!

If you are interested in developing yourself as a Consultant in Canada, here is something to work towards - A CMC designation! You can become a Certified Management Consultant in Canada. Agreed, CMC is not as well publicised as the CMA designation, but it exists and it is a valuable title to aspire for. There are 20,000 people in Canada who call themselves Management Consultants! But not everyone is a CMC. You can become one! Click on the link: http://www.cmc-canada.ca/

What sets a CMC apart?

1. High standards & adherence to code of conduct.
2. Dedication to the client.
3. Broad perspectives - Treat the cause, not the symptom!
4. Passionate & proud about the Consulting profession.
5. Step us as leaders to shape the industry.

Here are 2 links to useful You Tube videos about CMC Canada. Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urchBTUgD1s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Wg9EzEjs9Aur

Develop your Intangible assets! Tangible assets will follow!

Here's a thought: So what, if you at a moment of time, you do not have significant TANGIBLE assets (I'm talking atleast 4 zeroes in your bank balance, before the decimal, LOL). You can always develop your INTANGIBLE assets - like knowledge, expertise, personal branding, valuable skills like public speaking, presentation & networking skills. And that is an asset that no one can take away from you :) Good luck!

Develop your Intangible assets! Tangible assets (rewards) will follow!

Movember initiative :) Grow a moustache for Prostate cancer research funding support!

So, my classmates asked us guys in the class to grow moustaches for the sake of supporting the Movember initiative. Here is mine, so far, in the last 20 days :) For details, visit  http://www.movember.com/