Best Practices to Grow Your Consulting Business – #1 Don’t Do Everything Yourself

Following up on my Best Practices to Grow Your Consulting Business post from our panel of veteran consultants, here is a bit more discussion around our first Top Tip.

Don’t do everything yourself – Delegate, collaborate, and hire out

Have you identified what you might outsource or bring in additional help to accomplish, to free up your time so you can spend that time most meaningfully?

Stay tuned in to where your time is spent and assess whether that’s where it should be spent. Rigorously think about what can you delegate or hire out. Collaboration also expands your bandwidth, both in terms of helping you with your own deliverables, and, expanding the types of services you can offer.

Our desire for control or cash flow management often pull us in the other direction. To counter that pull, build a team of trusted collaborative partners and affiliates.

Please comment on some of your best successes on prioritizing your time and outsourcing. And about what types of activities are dragging you down in terms of where you spend your time. I’d love to hear tips you can share on how to prioritize and then follow through on what you have prioritized. I look forward to your tips and comments.

About Deborah Siegle

Deb Siegle, Past President of Women in Consulting and Principal of Strategic Marketing Solutions, is an astute marketing leader and strategist with a talent for aligning a company’s products, solutions and messages with the customer’s needs. Deb was named one of the Top Women of Influence in Silicon Valley. She delivers practical and actionable insights to business executives and entrepreneurs. Deb is a recognized consumer and business marketing leader, problem solver and communicator who is an authority in market research, strategy, market and product development, and customer loyalty and experience. Deb is also the former president of Women in Telecommunications (WiT) and has also held leadership positions in other industry associations. Deb holds a M.B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley and a B.B.A. from the University of Michigan.

Comments

  1. Dear Deborah
    really a very good input for all of us!
    The first thing I outsource for any client is always the content for webpages and prospects.

  2. Thanks for this input and sharing your outsourcing areas Muriel. Outsourcing content for webpages and social media (under your direction) is one of the areas I hear most commonly mentioned as an effective use of time and leveraging the expertise of others. If you can tell us more about what you outsource for client content, that would be helpful to many – to generate ideas of what they might do.

  3. In talking further about this “Don’t Do Everything Yourself” Best Practices tip with fellow panelist Jan Robertson, Jan discussed how critical it is to build a team of collaborative Partners and Affiliates. Figure out what you’re best at, and enjoy the most, and for the rest – to outsource. Also to work with others who have complementary skills – ideally as partners or affiliates. Doing this has made a huge difference in her business, and has been critical in her being able to scale her business.

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