Viv Stokes has spent the last 40 years working as a management consultant and trainer throughout the U.K. He has learned that the key to success in business consultancy is a heady cocktail of:
- the way you get on with your client - and that’s 90% of the job
- the way you gently put peoples’ opinions on one side
- the way you dig out the facts
- the way you avoid the temptation of telling the client what to do - if you think you know the answer, leave it outside the door
- the way you help managers to become even more effective at achieving planned results
and has written this up in a very readable, anecdotal way in a 40,000 word manual -
“BEING A SELF EMPLOYED MANAGEMENT CONSULTANT”.
“I started reading it Friday night and couldn’t put it down”
“First time I read it I didn’t think I could do it - then I decided I could” - and he has.
Viv Stokes History :
Fellow of the British Institute of Management
Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Secretaries
Member of the Institute of Management Consultants
Left: A senior manager in the North Lancashire Training Group.