Management Consultant 101

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12Lessons
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13Exams &
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235Students
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7Hours
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0.7CEUs
Course Description
This course on management consulting covers a wide variety of topics that include an overview of the field, how to build a client strategy, how to help organizations with process improvements, and how to pick and conduct interventions that can help organizations better achieve their goals and objectives.
The course also includes sections on how to information and assessment areas. These include project management, quality, audits, change management, process improvements, standards compliance, organizational development, and business and executive coaching.
These are all topics important to the field of management consulting. The information can be valuable to virtually any organization – private, public, for profit, non-profit, and governmental. The information can also be helpful to a consultant who works for a firm or is an independent, functions as an auditor, works as a coach, helps government groups, or works directly for a company as an internal consultant either formally or informally.
As you move through the course you will not only see assessment areas where consultant can help you will also see actionable areas such as industrial engineering, industrial psychology, management by objective, operations management, organizational psychology, process management, project management, and strategic management. We will also cover tools such as SWOT analysis that covers strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats both for an organization and for an individual.
Anyone interested in the field should benefit from the material covered. This includes what the demand is for the service, what the service includes, requirements for the service, helping groups achieve and be more competitive, interventions to improve performance, how to run better meetings to make groups more productive, change management and emerging technology, standards including ISO and other standards, benchmarking, certifications, financial audits, process audits, internal and external auditing, consultant auditing, and other auditing activities.
- Completely Online
- Self-Paced
- Printable Lessons
- Full HD Video
- 6 Months to Complete
- 24/7 Availability
- Start Anytime
- PC & Mac Compatible
- Android & iOS Friendly
- Accredited CEUs

Course Lessons
Lesson 1: Management Consulting Overview
Lesson 1 Video
Review Video: What the heck does a consultant DO, exactly? - Management Consulting 101
Take Survey: Reasons for Taking this Course
Complete: Exam 1
Lesson 2: Developing a Client Business Strategy for the Consultant
Lesson 2 Video
Review 3 Articles: Management Consulting Business Plan; What Is Organizational Psychology?; 6 reasons why Companies spend $2 million to hire Management Consultants
Complete: Exam 2
Lesson 3: Identify Improvements, Develop a Philosophy, and Be Competitive
Lesson 3 Video
Review 4 Articles: Analyzing Your Business's Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats; How to Create a Company Philosophy; Examples of Corporate Philosophy; 14 Skills Entrepreneurs Need to Win Clients
Review Video: Personal SWOT Analysis Example - Identifying Your Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats
Complete: Exam 3
Lesson 4: Intervention Activities
Lesson 4 Video
Review Article: Management for All Posts
Review Video: 5 Steps To High Performance Coaching Skills
Complete: Exam 4
Lesson 5: Project Management
Lesson 5 Video
Review 3 Articles: What is project management?; 10 best practices for successful project management; Four Functions of Management: Planning, Organizing, Leading and Controlling
Review Video: 6 Powerful Task Management Tips For Time-Efficient Project Managers
Complete: Exam 5
Lesson 6: Quality and Quality Management
Lesson 6 Video
Review 2 Videos: What is Project Quality Management? Process, Tools and Techniques | AIMS Lecture; How An ISO 9001 Management Review Should Look
Complete: Exam 6
Lesson 7 - Assessment Area and "How-To" Guide: Audits
Lesson 7 Video
Review Video: Quality Audit Preparation
Complete: Exam 7
Lesson 8: Change Management
Lesson 8 Video
Review 2 Articles: What is change management?; 10 Principles of Change Management
Review Video: What Is Change Management
Complete: Exam 8
Lesson 9: Process Improvement
Lesson 9 Video
Review 2 Articles: Five Tools for Process Improvement and Lean Six Sigma; Process Improvement ? People
Review Video: Process Improvement: Six Sigma and Kaizen Methodologies
Complete: Exam 9
Lesson 10: Standards Compliance
Lesson 10 Video
Review Article: Standards
Review Video: Why Have an ISO Standard | ISO Standards
Complete: Exam 10
Lesson 11: Organizational Development
Lesson 11 Video
Review Article: What Is Organizational Development? - Executing Organizational Change
Review Video: Human Resources Organizational Development Consultant, Career Video from drkit.org
Complete: Exam 11
Lesson 12: Business and Management Coaching
Lesson 12 Video
Review Article: What is the difference between business consulting and management consulting?
Review Video: Career Advice - Business and Management Consulting
Take Poll: End of Course Poll
Take Survey: Course Comments
Take Survey: Program Evaluation Follow-up Survey (End of Course)
Complete: Exam 12
Complete: The Final Exam
Learning Outcomes
- Define what a Management Consultant is and what to expect from management consulting as a career.
- Develop a client business strategy.
- Identify improvements, develop a philosophy, and be competitive.
- Define intervention activities.
- Describe project management.
- Recognize quality and quality management.
- Summarize audit procedures.
- Identify change management processes.
- Describe steps involved for process improvement.
- Determine standards compliance.
- Summarize organizational development, and
- Demonstrate mastery of lesson content at levels of 70% or higher.
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