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What Your Consultant Wants You to Know (but you never ask)

I’ve been both a CEO and a consultant, so I’ve seen from both perspectives what goes right and what goes wrong when a consultant comes in to a company. Generally the CEO or the manager who hires the consultant tells the consultant what he or she wants. Often the manager is frustrated with something that is happening at the company and expects the consultant will have the expertise to “just fix it”. While the manager needs to set the expectations, of course, the consultant rarely gets to voice what he or she knows would make the consulting engagement more successful for both.

Web Site Software Interface Design Consultant

The key to creating graphical images for the World Wide Web and software applications is keeping the image file size relatively low and creating images that are optimized and display correctly in the browser window. By obtaining the knowledge of when to apply the proper image format to a given situation and how to properly optimization images to decrease download times, developers can assure themselves that graphics used in their projects will be optimized for success.

The Greatest Challenges the Consultant Faces

While there are few career paths that some would call perfect, being a consultant comes pretty close to having it all. Yet there are challenges and pitfalls that are sometimes overwhelming and unexpected. Whether it’s helping a client increase sales, improve efficiency, prevent a crisis or convince a client why a particular strategy might work, challenges are always to be faced. When analyzing, identifying and exploring the most specific challenges high on the consultant’s list, there are a few that would probably be considered the greatest of all. Following are some of those challenges and how a few successful consultants have overcome them.

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