Gower Handbook of Leadership And Management

Running head: MANAGEMENT CONSULTING
Management Consulting
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Introduction
The essay throws light on analyzing the different major competencies of the
management consultant which will be suitable for the growth of the companies. The
management consultants help the different businesses in improving their performance and
grow through solving problems along with finding new manners through which the activities
can be performed in a better manner. The management of the different consulting projects
needs to acquire the various skills such as problem solving and critical thinking skills that
will be suitable in managing the effectiveness and it will be suitable for solving different
inefficacies appropriately.
Analysis of Most Important Competence of Successful Management Consultant
There are three major skills and competencies which characterizes successful as well
as thriving management consultant with the different discussions that will be suitable for the
judging of success. As commented by the different individuals, there are three major skills on
which the efficient management consulting is based on the following approaches: Skills
Related to Analysis that is appropriate in enabling the different opportunities along with
possibilities that requires to be identified on the behalf of the different client companies (Uhl
and Gollenia 2016). The other aspect is skills related to project management enable these
kinds of ideas for delivering the same to the client companies under the respective budget as
well as constraints related to time. Lastly, the skills related to building proper relationship
helps in selling ideas along with providing leadership which takes the client forward
effectively (Thorpe 2016).
As per the respective classification, it can be seen that the most appropriate purpose of
the consulting exercise is creating proper value for the businesses of the clients and in order
to perform such activities in the business, the proper understanding of the business is

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essential along with the identification of the threats and opportunities which can be possessed
by the business. In such scenario, it mainly demands for the thorough analysis of the business
of client which is inclusive of taking the proper information about the respective situation
along with processing the respective information which can be leading to the making of
effective decisions (Sturdy, Wright and Wylie 2016). For instance- Capgemini Consulting
Company mainly emphasized on the logical analysis of the management consultant as the
most formal type of approach of solving the different problems as well as importance of
having proper hypothesis driven approach can be assisting in achieving goals appropriately
and successfully.
On the other hand, the analysis skills are the other aspect which can be implemented
by the companies especially in different scenarios when reflecting upon such kind of skills
can be used in solving the different cases successfully (Obeidat et al. 2016). In the respective
scenario, the different problems are required to be identified as well as analysis of different
information which are needed and therefore, proceeding with processing as well as drawing
meaning from the respective information. From the instance of Capgemini Consulting, it can
be seen that while composing a particular project, it requires complete and proper
understanding of the different elements which constitutes the consulting type of exercise.
As to become successful in managing consultant, the step by step planning and proper
understanding of the required approach is necessary for reaching the different concrete
understanding and recommendation for the business of the client (Noe et al. 2016). The skills
related to relationship building, analytical skills as well as project management skills are the
three major competencies of the management consultant that is necessary for them in
communicating the different ideas as well as positively influence others. Furthermore, the
management consultant needs to communicate well as it is the most unavoidable aspects of