Ep 12 - "Wide Skill Set"

Ep 12 - "Wide Skill Set"

In the final phase of the third lever in the Consulting Curve Process, Peter Selby chats about the importance of having a "Wide Skill Set."  We get a chance to expand in the importance of leveraging your community to expand your skill set and target larger clients.   Another great episode including: * Communities can deepen capacity levels * Solving larger and more complex business problems * More resources lead to larger and more complex assignments * Deeper level of experience and resources With this learning takeaway:  "Wider skill sets increase trust and capacity!" To learn more about working as a consultant or adviser with Biz Drivers, go to https://bizdrivers.biz Produced by https://podbrandmedia.com

Ep 11 - "Customer Community"

In part two of the third phase in the Consulting Curve Process, Peter Selby chats about the "Customer Community."  We touch on not only the various facets of a Customer community and its many benefits, but also include a quick recap of the importance of building the right network.   Another great episode including: * Community is essential for retaining your best clients * Customer Communities are very unusual in the consulting space * Adding value to your customers and providing them a forum to share amongst themselves is powerful * You must build the right kind of network for the right kind of business With this learning takeaway:  "Customer Communities are exclusive ecosystems where customers find and share value!" To learn more about working as a consultant or adviser with Biz Drivers, go to https://bizdrivers.biz Produced by https://podbrandmedia.com

Ep 10 - "Warm Network Community"

We begin phase three in the Consulting Curve Process, the Customer Choice Drivers.  In this segment, Peter Selby takes us through the essential benefits and necessity of having a growing, warm network both for clients and for your consulting community.   We touch on such insights as: * Cold networks are inefficient and quickly exhausted * Even your warm network will experience the Pareto Principle and will not survive the 80/20 rule  * A growing network is vital and provides instant scale and the ability for complex positioning * With this learning takeaway:  "20% annual growth is standing still or actually going backwards in a business!" To learn more about working as a consultant or adviser with Biz Drivers, go to https://bizdrivers.biz Produced by https://podbrandmedia.com

Ep 9 - "Poor Processes, Bad Data and Lessons Learned"

In our 9th episode in this series, we take a humorous detour into the land of massive mistakes and lessons learned.  Listen to Peter share some horror stories and how consulting could have helped avoid the mistakes, including: * An abundance of utility poles and a mountain of limestone * How bad data creates a "mistake machine" * When issues can be seen from the top it is often too late * An intro to "Co-Pilot" With this learning takeaway:  "Are You Actually Measuring the Critical Things?" To learn more about working as a consultant or adviser with Biz Drivers, go to https://bizdrivers.biz Produced by https://podbrandmedia.com

Ep 8 - "Solutions & Resources"

In our 8th episode in this series, we take an in depth look at the third phase of the the Client Value Drivers, "Solutions and Resources."  Listen to Peter and Kevin chat about why Clients requires complex solutions to the diverse issues their businesses face, including: * Clients want to see clear, end to end solutions * Having more resources allows the consultant to expand their capacity to deliver and avoid the feast or famine syndrome * Deeper issues require deeper solutions * Allows the consultant to dive into more diverse industries With this learning takeaway:  "Community not only expands the client base but also the deliverables for those clients!" To learn more about working as a consultant or adviser with Biz Drivers, go to https://bizdrivers.biz Produced by https://podbrandmedia.com