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Selecting Consultants is like Selecting Talents: [Please Share an Example] 202304040002(20251211)1/2
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The consulting
services described in this article are written policies, service quality
management, computer system implementation and update, it emphasizes on
consulting services related to internal control and management; my experience
includes: in the work environment, the company has already hired an individual
consultant, and, there was also consulting firms providing services for this
company, and the company was requesting for implementing ERP system, and I was
responsible for utilizing my work experience to support the company I worked
for to select the systems vendors and to adjust the work organization and work
processes structure, and, I possess contract consultant work experience…etc 👉👉👉When I was
communicating with those consultants, an idea came to my mind, “I also
hope I could be a consultant someday; at least, I will build up an article to
share what’s happening now”👈👈👈I suggest you see this article as an one that you
would like to share it with your top management team, because, those work
experience I would like to share in this article was built up when I was in a
work role representing for the top management department of the company I
worked for.
Let’s Get Started
1. Must read; it is very important, although, you may not encounter this kind of situation.
2. Selecting consultants is like selecting talents; do you agree?! Why?!
3. 「Hi, Consultant; please share an example to explain…」.
1.
Must read; it is very important,
although, you may not encounter this kind of situation.
Based on those
experienced I’ve met,please allow me to consult you/it may not be applicable to your environment, and, how you would
like to answer?!:
(1) Is the company's need to hire
consultants actually an attempt to fill in the gaps in the competence of a
certain professional manager?! Incompetence implies the unwillingness to take work
responsibilities and a lack
of knowledge of professional work scope. 👈👈👈If this is the case, a professional
consultant would suggest you directly contact a headhunting firm to find other
talent to fill the gap! Reason: (Assuming the employee's name is Q)
A. The attitude of not willing to take
work responsibilities: Q has already violated employment
contract, the company and his
colleagues need to spend time in proving what works belong to Q’s work
responsibilities and Q is not willing to take the responsibilities, it becomes
everyone but Q knows Q’s work responsibilities and Q [intentionally] ignores
it. This company will become a professional investigation firm, and its client
is itself, the target is Q and Q’s job.
B. A lack of knowledge of professional
work scope: Even if Q is not intentionally shrinking his work responsibilities,
however, including Q himself,
no one knows what other professional work responsibility belongs to Q but Q
doesn’t know👈👈👈How
Q passed the work interview in the beginning?! If it is the case, and, once
there is work responsibility allocation problems and only Q never raises his
hand and says what is his, he always needs reminder from others, then, Q is
always in a role of waiting to be
assigned tasks 👉👉👉In
this situation, do you agree we define it as a lack of professional work ability?! For example, voucher
work: accountants would raise their hands and say that’s their jobs, however,
if the accountant is Q and he doesn’t know he needs to raise hand and take the
work, is he also a professional accountant?!
C. Above A+B= a
terrible situation, especially when Q is in a high work position, and most of
the employees are not in high work levels, they may be afraid of reporting this
situation to the higher level W, and, W’s professional work background is not
the same as Q’s, it creates difficulties to W to find out Q’s situation.
In above situation, please consider:
Once the causes you would like to hire consultants be resolved, will it also
resolve those problems on your people?! Or, you will thing the problems solving
work is still on-going/do it later, or, it can be ignored if no one talks about
it again?! (Unexploded bomb! 👉 When things happen, please don't forget the decision you would like to make at
this moment. Is it like a situation of bad money to drive out good?! Are those
good ones excellent but currently just your entry-level staffs and are affected
by Q every day?)
Accordingly, this
blog would like to recommend articles: Who is the Successor?! Interviewers, Please Consider Asking These Questions,
Directory of Interview Questions for Jobs Search and Talents Search.
(2) In your company, which work department
is the most suitable one to be the project manager?!
A.
Q?! Q is already the one who doesn’t
want to take the work responsibility, your company would like to allow Q to
continue to escape from what he needs to be responsible for and you would like
to redefine other work owner, or, you would like to use it as an opportunity to
assign this work to Q by Q’s manager and tell Q your expectation on him in the
future and to observe his work performance?! 👈👈👈Indeed, Q may quit, Q will know he is
not eligible and cannot improve in a short period of time, or, Q will use this
project work practice as an opportunity to grow. Which kind of Q your company
has?!
B.
In those work scopes this article
has mentioned, [on what basis]
your company assign the project management work department or the responsible
person?!
Among all the participants of the
project, this blog would like to suggest you to define the
department which causes the most
significant impact on daily operations as the project responsible work
department. For example: (Please use text with blue background to adjust your
company’s answer. Once your purpose changes, your answer would change
accordingly.)
ERP: All work departments need to use ERP, IT
department is responsible for managing the software or hardware/they are also
the contact window for suppliers, however, the purpose is for maintaining the
ERP in a good status, [you purchase an
ERP is not because you want to own the ERP]👉👉👉To be short, the purpose is for your better operation work
efficiency and better business achievements, do you agree?!👈👈👈Which department in your company is
responsible for reporting the business result to you?!👉👉👉The one which is responsible for
generating financial statements; is there other kind of answer?!👈👈👈The purpose is: It needs to ensure [those number
resulting from daily operating activities][will completely]、[accurately] go to accounting booking work process.
CFO says: Why it is my accounting
department’s business of their Customer Relationship Management system implementation work?!!!
★What is the
purpose of implementing the Customer Relationship Management system?!
Therefore, has the purpose changed?!
The description with blue background above is not the
so call standard answers,
those work instructions suitable for your company’s work labors arrangement are
the standard answers; some companies define IT department as the project
management department because what they concern is the huge system structure
and amount they need to spend rather than the completeness and accuracy of the
information flow, and the finance and accounting staffs in their companies are
responsible, providing timely support👈👉A united company
with employees who know when to raise their hands proactively—any
arrangement is appropriate, right? 😊 Wishing you a successful project.
This is a right timing to recommend this article: [ ERP – PM Who?! ] IT Keeps Nodding When Hearing This.
(3)What's the highest direct reporting level
for consulting service results or project progress?! 👈👈👈Your top
manager will likely provide at least two different perspectives:
The 1st one: This is A 👉👉👉Why you tell me
this?! Or, A doesn’t want to answer this
question at all.
The 2nd one: This blog suggests you to consider this answer before asking the managers👉👉👉Why there are things I am not allowed to know!!
Other options or managers of wisdom: Please you tell me should I know
it?!
This blog suggests
you: regardless of the projects or kinds of managers you need to talk to,
including A kind, please use email c.c. function to deal with departments and managers
you think they need to know your work situation, you may receive their response
asking you “why they need to know”, however, you also need to well prepare the
reason and express “you didn’t submit it to everyone to shrink your
responsibility, you have consider all the potential outcome”, it is possible
you will receive a reply that touches your heart👉👉👉An unexpected high-ranking executive
expressed [Thank you] and they use honorifics. 😊
2.
Selecting consultants is like
selecting talents; do you agree?! Why?!
(1) Companies most
frequently utilize job banks to select potential candidates, therefore, if
there is a platform exclusively for your selecting the consultants of all
kinds, what you would like to prepare before using it?! 👉👉👉 In selecting work talents, you use
Job Description, right?! Then,
what about selecting the consultants👉👉👉it is Consultant Requirements Description, do you agree?! 😊
This is a
description created by this blog when this blog is revising the content of this
article on 2025/12/11, you won’t find the same description in other places;
however, it is like the Payment
Request or Job Description,
all the companies need to use it and their formats are similar, so please
design it by yourself! The importance is: at least, it is
applicable for input 3 kinds of consultants’ information, including headhunting
consultants, system software consultants, professional accountants and lawyers
or similar; [Manager or Direct Reporting Line] field in your Job Description is the [Project Manager or Project Responsible Department] in the Consultants Requirements Description, do you agree!
This blog would
like to recommend an article as a reminder for you: Group Central Procurement Policy; accordingly, would you
like to consider including your employees’ idea to define the template of your Consultants Requirements Description?! This task is
big. After you have confirmed the consultants you want, it also needs to add
related information in your Suppliers
Basic Information Form, and, you would also consider individual
consultant’s privacy and avoid duplicated work in adding the information, in
this situation, how you would design the Consultants
Requirements Description?!
I hope this
information is helpful to you.
(2) What questions the
companies can ask the consultants(firms)?! And, the companies don’t need to pay
the consulting fees in advance for these answers?!
Please let people know, what questions
you define you can ask job seekers and you don’t need to pay them salaries on
it?!
There are many business owners they just created
the companies and they are not finance and accounting professional background
or IT , either, however, they finally recruit a CFO or a CTO, how these bosses
interviewed these high-level candidates?!
Would you like to try this?! It is applicable to talents search or selecting the consultants and it also brings you precious experience👇
Thank you for your participating in our selecting
procedures, and, as it is, we don’t have professional knowledge in this work
area, please share with us how we can select this kind of
candidates/consultants based on our
need?! How we can know you are suitable to us?!
👉👉👉This blog’s author, Emily, would answer:
- The scope OOO you
are asking, I possess internal work experience for more than 20 years, and I
was the project managers who is in charge, those companies include OO, OO, at
that moment, those situations were OO, OO.
- You can also ask
the consultants what may happen in the situation of OO, what are the root
causes?! What is the most important thing?!
- Please be advised
to keep flexible in the time arrangement and those answers for your questions,
it is because there may be misunderstanding in your communication with the
consultants due to your discussion is short and the questions are not clear, it
needs to spend many times of the conversation to define the scope of services
or change the scope of service is the most appropriate. Those answers I
provided for companies are also not always the same due to their situations
differ.
- I operate a blog, Whatsyouridea1996.blogspot.com,
I share my OO experience, you can refer to it and compare and ask questions; articles
represent companies I thought about when creating the content, they are
different, so are those key points described. Thank you!
- Finally, I would
like to suggest you to ask the consultants to [Share an Example]. (You are now
reading this article of this topic, do you think it matches what you need?!😊 )
This is an
recommended article: What Is The Most Important Thing for Implementing E-Process Successfully.
(3) Are consulting
firms with notable brands always suitable to your company?! 👈👈👈This
questions is similar to questions involving talents search: Does a company hire
a CFO must search for talents who possess Big N accountants firms work
experience?! Are they surely suitable for the companies?! Or, the company needs
to seek for candidates who possess particular financial consulting firms work
experience?!
No matter what your answers are, please list 3~10 specific reasons,
or, you can use the way of excluding, to list all those you have already known
and they are well-known, and, to remove those you know they are not suitable
first, for example: colleagues of
your company, they are from different former employers, they all express
negative opinions on the same consultant firm, you may need to remove this
consultant firm from the list.👈👈👈This case is to remind you, among your B2B customers, employees
of your customers companies, acutally, they are influential to you = the thing
you have already known, it is experiential marketing, there is high
possibility your users would decide they would like to recommend you or not after they have purchased and you’re your
products👈👉Above explanation
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