"You're An Idiot." Professional Help for Your Business
16.5 Reasons Why You Really Do Need Professional Help
Can you imagine if House were to become a business consultant?
Your
business consultant? Ouch. Maybefunny, but more than likely painful and embarrassing.
House would not be the type of "Professional Help" most business owners could benefit from. But an effective consultant would likely benefit youand your team. A few years ago a study found that when "Type A" personalities (Alphas) were absolutely convinced they were right, in reality theywere wrong up to 40% of the time. Hmmm. Sounds like a prescription for a consultant (or Vicodin).Are you ready to get serious about improving your company, growing new sources of income and developing your next generation of disciplinedleadership? Are you willing to listen and accept advice to improve your business? Then you're likely ready for professional help -- of a consultant.
Here are 16.5 reasons why you made the right choice in bringing in an outside consultant.Right Choice Reason #16
- You think your right nearly always. And part of that time, you are absolutely wrong. You need supervision (seriously)to stay on track and correct course before it's too late (and expensive).
Right Choice Reason #15
- You and your team built the business and now that the economy is in the tank, you need guidance with fresh eyes. It'sinsane to "go it alone" in today's economic waters. Better to hire a smart First Officer to help you figure out a game plan now while you can.
Right Choice Reason #14
- You don't have the inhouse expertise to fix what's broken, identify what's broken or some part of both. Working with aconsultant can be the shortest path to getting things back on the right track saving you both time and money in the long term. Think of it as aninvestment.
Right Choice Reason #13
- Your competition are bringing in 3rd parties to ensure they are aggressive and don't misstep. If the other guy isgetting his act together, or just trying to find better ways to improve, shouldn't you?
Right Choice Reason #12
- You think you know what to do to grow your company, but you and your team just don't have the time to do it all.You're spent. You're team is fully engaged making the best of where they are and what they have. You need a consultant to not only see what'spossible, or to develop the game plan, but actually come along side you and your team to make it a reality over time.
Right Choice Reason #11
- Hiring a consultant can be (long term) much cheaper than hiring an employee while delivering specific biz objectivesrather than awaiting to be told what to do next. Consultants are focused on objectives, results and the shortest path to success. Not so with anemployee, usually.
Right Choice Reason #10
- Bringing in an experienced consultant radically improves your chances for project success because he/she hasworked with a variety of businesses, industries and challenges and have the practical insight and real world experience to get you much closer toyour business objectives in short order.
Right Choice Reason #9
- Once the project is concluded, you can bounce the consultant and have no hard feelings; a bit harder to do that with anemployee. But a successful and results-oriented consultant will find themselves continually being sought out and often serially retained. Youcould likely benefit from such talent.
Right Choice Reason #8
- A consultant can (and should) be able to add value in many parts of your organization. More bang for the buck meansyou get the support, advice, and guidance for applications you didn't even anticipate.
Right Choice Reason #7
- Consultants can also be used to bounce ideas off of and to get a better idea of what's possible and options on ways toproceed. And it's all confidential.
Right Choice Reason #6
- A consultant can be used to determine the right changes and improvements for your business and be the objectivesource to determine the best way forward. This is powerful.
Right Choice Reason #5
- Want to avoid losing more money? Bring in a consultant to get the right tactics to lesson bleeding cash, determine newsources of income and better positioning for value-based pricing across the entire company. Nice.
Right Choice Reason #4
- A consultant can help you "see" opportunities which not only generate new sources of income, but can help you put themanagement or program plan in place to grow it over time.
Right Choice Reason #3
- With their diverse and vetted network, a consultant can put his or her finger on the 3rd party talent you may need shortterm to fill competency gaps, saving you time and expense all the while keeping the company moving forward.
Right Choice Reason #2
- A consultant can help you implement meaningful change without freaking out your crew and causing unnecessarypanics (layoffs are pending, job changes, etc.). Best of all, by working with a consultant, you can avoid standing in the Spotlight of Change all byyourself; a consultant can bring more objectivity to such perceptions.
Right Choice Reason #1
- A consultant will tell you when you're wrong, tell you why, give you options and help you plot a corrective course.However, a consultant will only tell you you are right when you actually are right and when you need to know it thus helping keep ego in checkwhile providing confirmations and kudos.
Right Choice Reason #.5
- You're committed to your company's long term success. Bringing in a consultant shows that you are not totallyinvested with your ego, know you can be wrong, seek others' perspectives and want to see the company improve over time -- period.Okay, so there you have it. You may not want a consultant like Dr. House, but there are many reasons for bringing in a consultant for your business. Vetting is important as you seek "professional help" for your company. Asking for references, and really listening to how the consultantwould collaborate with you are key considerations. Armed with the right consultant, your business potential will radically improve. And that's
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