Planning and Managing Consultancy Interventions

This course is about understanding the stages of the consultancy cycle and how to manage interventions effectively. This will cover the different types of consultancy interventions and approaches available to a consultant, role of planning in consultancy interventions, inputs and deliverables at each stage of the consultancy cycle, importance of scoping to a consultancy intervention, components of an effective project plan, the need for budgeting of financial and non-financial resources, systems and practices to identify and manage potential risks to the achievement of project objectives and many more, appropriate infrastructure to support  project delivery, the impact of the consultants own role and skills in project delivery, the importance of the project leader quality assuring the work of the project team, the resource implications for gathering different types of data/information and evaluate their contribution to the project, range of data analysis tools/models and evaluate the contribution to the success of an intervention project in using a range of tools/models, explaining how to develop a cohesive set of conclusions/findings and the process of developing recommendations from the analysis.

What will I learn?

• Understand the need to adopt a structured approach to managing consultancy interventions
• Be able to use project management techniques in a consultancy intervention
• Know how to conduct a consultancy intervention

Requirements

• Basic understanding of Consultancy
• Access to the internet for the material linked from the courses