My Natural Characteristics Of The Management Consulting Module

This managerial profile will give me a better understanding of who I am as a person, what style of learning and communication work best for me, and how to handle conflict as it arises in my career in lower level positions or leadership level. The results of four self-assessments will assist me in developing a personal growth plan that will benefit my future personal and professional endeavors.

The management of a consulting project calls on a variety of skills. This is an actuality that has been stressed throughout the course lectures, seminars and cases as well as throughout the course literature. The fact that consultants must integrate their skills when conducting a consulting project is as clear-cut as it is evident.

• In this case Deloitte & Touche Consulting Group was tasked to come in and consult with SKS Manufacturing, an auto supplier, in order to fix their inventory problems along with other issues the company was facing. Maria Chen would lead part of the team for her first time on this 12-week engagement, but would in occur some difficulties throughout the first 6 weeks of the project. The Deloitte team has a lot of work to do before the end of the engagement in order stabilize the company and prepare them for a more radical long term project that plans to “reengineer” their business process. Most of the responsibility for the slow start on the project is resting on Chen’s shoulders due to the choices she has made during the first half

I was asked to take part in the project, having had a training team and also having had issues relating to training myself, when I moved from a management role to a technical case role.

First and foremost, I would like to thank you, Mr. Carl Sullivan, for acknowledging and giving me the opportunity to help you choose the right consulting company for your future project. As requested, I have evaluated your current concerns and broken them down into three parts. Based on my research, here are the conclusions that I have:

At Illinois Business Consulting, we had recently concluded a very successful project. As Project Manager, I had led a team of seven on an assignment with a Fortune 500 home improvement supplier. During the course of our engagement, we had formulated a business strategy across national markets for a new product.

The un-official coffee break every day at 10 AM has significant effects in building the relationships between team members at the workshop. Therefore, the fact that Miller was unable to join most of the coffee breaks prevents him from getting to know and forming friendship with other people at the workplace.

Besides, regarding to the clients, the JVI had never build up a connection with the client until the surprisingly got the contract, the existence of hierarchy and non-trust between client and project team lead to the inefficiency of obtaining client information, later resulted in Jack’s misleading proposal for market research. Also, because in the concept of high power distance, decision making process is limited one-way participation and communication (In the Eye of the Beholder, cross cultural lessons in leadership from project GLOBE, Mansour Javidan, Peter W. Dorfma, etc), Jack’s own lack of experience on project management made it is possible for the project to diverge from previous direction under one person’s leadership.

As a first time manager my short term goal (next 2-3 years) is to establish myself in my current role and develop my management skills. Drucker (2005) discusses the importance of working to my strengths, having good self-awareness and an understanding how I perform. As part of my career goal I would like to complete the relevant tertiary education (MBA) to equip me with the tools to enable my success.

Question You are a project management consultant assigned to a small manufacturing firm that has been experiencing a myriad of problems. After conducting interviews and fact-finding with key managers, you have observed the following:

The Cap Gemini Ernst & Young Group is one of the world leaders in management consulting and IT services, dedicated to helping its client companies to develop and transform their organizations at every step of the value chain.

As I am reading the case, Personalize Your Management Development, I really touched by the author and I really learned a lot from the case. As everyone knows, different people have their different characteristics so they will have their own principle and procedure to deal things. Therefore, the different characteristics made the different working styles as manager. As a company, you will have a lot of different managers so personalize the specific management development projects are really essential to the company. After I read the case, I have a general sense about the different kinds of managers in company and I can imagine what they will do in management. In the case, the author

I believe I am a person with diverse tastes and experiences, whether in life or at work, that make me a distinctive person. I am a Computer Science Student with a great talent in Cricket. I am an enthusiastic traveler with a profound interest in meteorology. In a period of almost six professional years I feel I am lucky to put on and succeed in different roles. I worked as Business Analyst and COBOL Developer where my primary role was to design and build the application; as Quality Assurance Analyst where I have to break and check the application to find the faults in the design; and as Application Support Analyst to trouble shoot and solve the customer issues.

We cannot leave our discussion of the value of studying management without looking at the rewards and challenges of being a manager. What does it mean to be a manager? Being a manager in today\ 's dynamic work place provides many challenge.

‘‘Peter, let me be frank. If you go to the state with this, you will not be doing anyone any good not the company, not the environment, and certainly not your own career. I cannot have a consulting engineer who does not value client loyalty.’’