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If you answer yes to any of these questions, helping you become a professional consultant is closer than you think.

Are you thinking of starting a consulting business but don’t know where to start to learn the business of consulting?

Do you want to use the skills you’ve cultivated and the knowledge you’ve gained in your previous career to help others?

Would you like to be in the top 10% of consultants in terms of earnings, best practices, professionalism and personal satisfaction?

If you are already a consultant, do you want to learn how to attract more clients, earn more money and have more time for yourself?

Would you like to learn proven strategies and tactics that will help you be a leader in your area of expertise?

Are you ready to find out what your value proposition is and develop a proven business model that will attract high quality clients in the public and private sectors?

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Please note that applying does not guarantee your acceptance. Your one-on-one phone interview with one of our lead trainers will determine your eligibility for this elite opportunity.

The Odyssey Consulting Training Program is designed to give you the tools and the confidence to shape your own professional consulting practice.

Odyssey: The Business of Consulting ™ training program is a proprietary system, refined over twenty-five years, providing independent consulting practices and small consulting firms the processes, methodologies, and tools to operate successfully no matter where you are in the world.

We invite you to become an Odyssey Certified Consultant (OCC). We want to help you learn to transfer best practice theory, process and procedure to build, grow and transform both yourself and your consulting business, so that you become a leader in your field of expertise.

Odyssey Trusted Advisors typically create and run highly successful consulting businesses, attract better quality clients, earn more money and have more free time.

~ Become an Odyssey Certified Consultant ~

Learn the Business of Consulting
Sign up for Odyssey: The Business of Consulting ™
12 Week Intensive Training Program

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Please note that applying does not guarantee your acceptance. Your one-on-one phone interview with one of our lead trainers will determine your eligibility for this elite opportunity.

You can have your own consulting business in as little as 12 weeks, by enrolling in our Odyssey - The Business of Consulting ™ Training program

Why Our Program Works.

WE USE SUPERIOR TOOLS / TECHNIQUES

The Odyssey Competent Consultant ™ Process (OCC) is a series of four Webinar Modules, 3 two-day intensive in-class programs combined with the work you do on your own, supported by personal coaching and facilitator support. The program is intended to teach, coach and equip participants with the basic tool kit to help them become a highly successful consultant.

WE GIVE YOU CONFIDENCE IN YOURSELF

We teach you how to apply the basic concepts, systems and methodologies of professional consulting. We give you the confidence to go out into the world and sell your services using the knowledge and skills you have already acquired in your past or present career.

WE HOLD YOU TO HIGH STANDARDS

We show you “The Competency Benchmark” for a Trusted Master Consultant. We then help you develop excellence in your practice, which will help you better understand of what separates the top 10% of consultants from the rest. The program wraps up with the four-day masterclass intensive, which provides a memorable conclusion where you and your business come together, officially launching your consulting practice.

WE TEACH YOU REAL WORLD SKILLS

We show you how to setup and structure your consulting practice; we explain the benefits of financial intelligence and business planning. We include setting up a fee structure, identifying clients and business opportunities as well as how to find consulting roles that are ideal for you, while helping you meet the goals of your business plan.

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Please note that applying does not guarantee your acceptance. Your one-on-one phone interview with one of our lead trainers will determine your eligibility for this elite opportunity.

The Odyssey Consulting Training Program

~ Introduction to Odyssey ~The Business of Consulting ™ - Program Objectives

Running a consulting business is distinctly different from running a conventional business. Implementing best practice consulting processes and methodologies—across business models that are constantly changing— requires special skills, abilities, and capacities along with focus and persistence to deliver masterful results.

Odyssey: The Business of Consulting ™ is the result of 25 years dedicated to developing a system that gives independent consulting practices and small consulting firms the processes, methodologies and tools to operate successfully both locally and internationally.

The primary focus of this process is on marketing, selling, positioning, and building a profitable consulting business and business model. Our goal is to help individuals build a profitable and lucrative consulting practice along with a quality lifestyle.

Odyssey is a powerful journey to becoming a leading-edge practitioner. Our strategies have prompted hundreds of business leaders and consultants to rethink their approach and helped hundreds of individuals set up or improve their consulting practices.

~ Odyssey Program Outline ~

Odyssey Program - Training Program Overview

Program Design Model to Fit the Learning Culture of Ottawa Based Consultants

Kick- Off Group Meeting – Zoom Webinar

  • Program Overview
  • Logistics
  • Pre- work Review/commitments

Pre-work –Expressing Your Talent Level - Self Assessments

  • Rubicon Personal Strategy
  • Lifeline Exercise
  • Assessments - (personal assessments, four assessments, online links)

Weekend (one) - 2 Day Intensive

Training Program Weekend Intensive One – Introduction to Your Consulting Business

Day One Who Am I? “Clients buy you before they buy your services”

Introduction to Your Consulting Business - Setting up Your Consulting Business

Saturday 8:30 am - 4:30 pm

  • Sharing Rubicon Personal Strategy
  • Assessing Your Talent Model

(Behaviors, Motivators, EQ, Competencies)

  • Lifeline Exercise -Your Purpose
  • Wheel of Life
  • Six Resources Analysis
  • Strategy for financial Independence
  • Action Plan

Sunday 9:00 am - 3:00 pm

  • Review of Your Talent Model
  • Setting up your consulting business
  • Incorporation, business cards, accountant, lawyer, office, Virtual Assistant, website, Business Plan*
  • Purpose statements review (purpose – why am I here and why is it important)
  • Preparation for Day 3-4 What Business Am I in?

Weekend (two) - Intensive

Saturday 8:30 am - 4:00 pm

What Business Am I in?

What do I do? - Odyssey consulting methods, models and processes

"Developing a proven methodology to attract clients and to provide services to them"

  • The Professional Services Firm
  • Consulting as a Professional Service
  • The Consultant's Career Ladder – where do you want to be on the career ladder
  • Selling your services to the Federal Government

Request for proposals

Service opportunities, partnerships, resources and getting hired by a professional services firm* placement agency

  • The Consultant as Investor

The Odyssey Process Consulting Model

  • Building Value with the Odyssey Arrow
  • The Executive Briefing
  • The M1
  • The Business Management Review (BMR) – engaging stakeholders in the conversation
  • Diagnostic Assessment and Recommendation
  • Organization Development Intervention (ODI)
  • Diagnostic Assessment

Sunday 8:30 am - 4:00 pm

Day 2 Building Your Brand

  • Building Your Brand
  • The Ideal Client
  • Fee Setting- Finances- Profitability
  • The Consultant Mindset
  • Business Model Innovation-(Overview)
  • Your Business Plan (Outline sample)
  • Case Study Assignment

Weekend (three) - 2 Day Intensive

Saturday 8:30 am - 4:30 pm

Weekend Intensive Preparation for the Master Class

Sunday 9:00 am – 3:30 pm

  • Preparation for the Masterclass
  • Introducing your business model
  • Presenting your brand (what I do?)
  • Assignments: Golden Nuggets, My Brand Presentation /case study
  • Optional one-on-one coaching – what is it? How does it work?

Master Class - Four Day Intensive

Four-Day Masterclass Intensive Putting It All Together

Theory to Practice, Hands-on Experience and Peer Review with Fellow Consultants

(“putting together the tools, models and processes to demonstrate professional competence”)

Day One

11:00 am - 4:00 pm

Review of Where You Are

  • Group Reflections
  • Odyssey Arrow Review
  • Nugget Presentations
  • Marketing and Branding
  • Consulting Tool Kit - Diagnostics, Change Models
  • Consulting Framework – Resource based
  • Case Study Review

Day Two

9:30 am - 4:00 pm

  • Group Reflections
  • The 2134 BMR Model
  • My Mini BMR Preparation- (My Personal Rubicon Journey, My Professional Journey)
  • MIni BMR Presentations
  • Mini BMR presentations
  • Business Model Innovation
  • Case Study Review Cont'd

Homework

Business Model and Business Plan

Day Three (Overnight Hotel required)

9:30 am - 4:00 pm

  • Group Reflections
  • Final Business Model and Plan Presentations
  • Final Business Model and Plan Presentations

Final Business Model and Plan Presentations

  • Business Model and Plan Presentations
  • Elevator speech and Pen Selling Exercise
  • Presenting the Elevator Speech and Pen Selling Practice

Dinner

6:30 pm Odyssey Student Dinner and Discussion

Provided compliments of Odyssey Training Institute

Day Four

9:30 am - 2:30 pm (End of Classes)

Group Reflections

  • Business Model and Plan Presentations Continue
  • Graduation Exercise
  • Wrap Up

Upon Completion of the Course

Additional Programs

  • Follow-up Activity and Group Coaching Calls
  • Optional Coaching and Support Programs
  • Student Mentoring Programs including WebEx and Skype Calls
  • Special Training Programs and Odyssey: The Business of Consulting ™ Newsletter

Upcoming Dates

Odyssey: The Business of Consulting™ is the result of a focus over a 25-year period on how independent consulting practices and small consulting firms operate successfully in many parts of the world. The primary focus is on marketing, selling, positioning and building a profitable consulting business for the long-term.

Odyssey helps participants interested in consulting in areas such as organizational development, strategic thinking and planning, sales effectiveness, technology, community development, management, communications, marketing, innovation, security, recruitment, executive mentoring, leadership, coaching, team building, change management, career development and more. Let us help you find your passion.

Odyssey facilitates your growth through the critical levels of business from being a Competent Consultant to becoming a Trusted Advisor and respected Master Practitioner in your profession. Odyssey commits to serving and facilitating the achievement of the participants’ specific objectives and personal visions for success.

Information Sessions will be held via Zoom at 7:00 pm

March 16th and March 20th 2022

April 13 and April 27th 2022

May 4th and May 18th 2022

For more information and pricing contact kenselt@sympatico.ca.

Please note that applying does not guarantee your acceptance. Your one-on-one phone interview with one of our lead trainers will determine your eligibility for this elite opportunity.

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