Business Consulting

Prashant Goel | Founder | Imaginally Company

What is Business Consulting?

You may be curious about a Career in Business Consulting. Understanding Why one wants to choose a Career in Business Consulting is phenomenally more important than figuring out How to get into Business Consulting. The most authoritative source of information on Business Consulting is someone with real experience in it.

Founder Prashant Goel has worked in Business Consulting for 14 years. Founder Prashant Goel outlines Business Consulting as:

A business consultant is a professional who works with clients on strategy, planning and problem solving, and helps clients develop business skills and knowledge.

How Founder Prashant Goel got into Business Consulting?

I did a Bachelors and Masters in Business Administration from the USA. I worked as a Management Consultant for four years in New York city before starting my own venture, Imaginally, that handles clients and projects across the globe. Since 2012, I have been managing consulting projects on a freelance basis.

Founder Prashant Goel's Talk on Business Consulting

Starts with what is:
1)	Business Consulting

Next, it covers Education. It is easy to Google information about what Qualifications are needed to enter Business Consulting, this Talk went a step ahead to talk about the body of knowledge one needs to develop to excel at Business Consulting. Here is a list of Education items required for Business Consulting:
2)	Business
3)	Mindfulness
4)	Creativity & Innovation
5)	Systems Thinking
6)	Psychology
7)	Management
8)	Organization Development

Then, the Talk focuses on the most important component that is Skills. Sills and success in Business Consulting go hand in hand. One needs to get a hold of essential skills. It explains Skills needed in Business Consulting with these items:
9)	Self-knowledge
10)	Communication
11)	Interpersonal
12)	Intuition
13)	Analytical
14)	Vision
15)	Problem-solving
16)	Presentation

Business Consulting has an interesting list of Positives. These are the Positives of Business Consulting:
17)	Helping Others
18)	Shaping a Positive Direction
19)	Discovering Blind Spots
20)	Bringing Solutions
21)	Reframing Issues
22)	Seeing Interconnections

It is important that one develops a fair understanding of the Challenges of Business Consulting:
23)	Managing Emotions
24)	Penetrating Issues
25)	Finding Common Ground
26)	Attracting Clients
27)	Pricing

In the final section of the Talk, Prashant Goel talks about How a day goes in a Career in:
28)	Business Consulting

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Business Consulting?

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Links for this Talk

Founder Prashant Goel's LifePage:

[LifePage]
https://www.lifepage.in/page/prashantgoel

LifePage Career Talk on Business Consulting

[Career]
https://www.lifepage.in/careers/business-consulting

[Full Talk]
https://lifepage.app.link/20180228-0019

[Trailer]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xar4o9ocB08

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