CONSULTING

Consulting is, as we mentioned in the introduction, the council. The principle is therefore, for a company, to solicit the external expertise of a consultant or consultant, experienced professional, sometimes former manager, often a former manager, with a Bac +5 level (business school, engineering school or university ) to improve the performance of a business.

To do this, the consulting mission generally takes place in several stages:

Prior analysis

Specific recommendations

Accompaniment of the change induced by the recommendations

Reporting to report the results of the consulting mission

Consulting: a wide variety of fields

Insofar as consulting is aimed at improving performance, consulting assignments can cover a wide variety of fields and consultants are usually specialized in a particular field of expertise:

Financial audit

Inventory management

Information system

Human ressources

Recruitment

Assistance for project management

Process audit

In short, for every problem encountered by an entrepreneur, there is a field of expertise to answer it via a consulting mission!

THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN COACHING AND CONSULTING

With the recent fashion of coaching in all fields, many advisors claim to coach; and conversely, faced with the credit given to consultants, many coach claim to be advisors! However, the two professions do not have much to do, do not rely on the same methods or the same principles and do not deal with the same problems.

The coach, to begin with, supports one or more people while the consultant deals with a company or section of the company. The role of the coach is to help the coachee to develop solutions on their own, thanks to an adapted support while the consultant brings solutions and sets them up, on the basis of an analysis of the existing one. Finally, the success of the coach's mission is difficult to quantify because it concerns people while the consultant's mission is perfectly quantifiable since it relates to an improvement in the performance of the company!

 CONSULTING: ACCESSIBLE TO VERY SMALL BUSINESSES?

Finally, let us draw a line on the myth that only large companies or at least large SMEs can afford the services of a consultant. This is completely false and today consulting is quite accessible to very small companies: more and more consultants are moving towards these targets in order to have missions that are richer in human relations and more rewarding from a point of view. staff.

Source: IT Business Consultant