5-week Consulting Discovery Masterclass

So you want to be an outstanding consultant? There are key principles you need to know. The five modules of the course below develop the skill set of a client-facing, problem-solving, solution-designing consultant.

All Masterclasses are delivered remotely.

Each week, there will be a mix of video learning modules and 1 live call on Saturdays (and one Sunday) from 2-5pm BST for skills practice, role plays and Q&A sessions. And some homework questions as well. 

Register for:

Cost: £1399 + vat (20% vat rate applied to UK customers)
ZenHao Academy members – please log on to membership portal to access member-rates for this course.

Note that the courses will require a minimum of 4 delegates to run, in order to work in a team for role plays and skills practices.

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Introduction
Live session:
Active Listening
Live Zoom Call
Saturday, June 11
Live Zoom Call
Saturday, Nov 5
Week 1: BCMC-101: The Consulting Engagement & Delivery
- End-to-end Consulting Engagement lifecycle
- Methodologies: Waterfall, Agile, Hybrid
- Consulting Project team roles & responsibilities
- Key activities during Consulting Projects
Online elearning
June 12-17
Online elearning
Nov 6-11
Q&A from Week 1 - Roleplay - First Client Interview Live Zoom Call
Saturday, June 18
Live Zoom Call
Saturday, Nov 12
Week 2: BCMC-102: Running & Facilitating Effective Workshops
- Facilitating skills & Meeting Dynamics
- Running Workshops
- Active Listening Skills
- Preparing for successful CRM Discovery workshops
Online elearning
June 19-24
Online elearning
Nov 13-18
Q&A from Week 2 - Discovery schedule & deliverables.
Live session: Questioning skills.
Live Zoom Call
Saturday, June 25
Live Zoom Call
Saturday, Nov 19

Week 3: BCMC-103: Requirements Gathering - Critical Thinking, Process Mapping & Design
- Critical Thinking Techniques
- Approach to Problem Definition
- Fundamentals of process mapping
- Mapping 'As-Is' Current states and 'To-Be' Future states
Online elearning
June 26-July 1
Online elearning
Nov 20-25
Q&A from Week 3 + review Discovery questions.
Exercise:
1. Process Mapping
2. Role play Scenario - Interview, questioning & process mapping.
Live Zoom Call
Saturday, July 2
Live Zoom Call
Saturday, Nov 26
Week 4: BCMC-104: Requirements Gathering - The Art of Insightful Questioning
& Documenting User Stories

- Questioning Strategies for Consulting Workshops
- Drafting Design Documents
- Writing User stories & Acceptance Criteria
Online elearning
July 3-8
Online elearning
Nov 27 - Dec 2
Q&A from week 4 + review Process Map homework.
Exercise:
1. Writing user stories from previous process map
2. Role play Scenario - BikeCo sales app
Live Zoom Call
Saturday, July 9
Live Zoom Call
Saturday, Dec 3
Week 5: BCMC-105: Delivering Powerful Solution Playbacks and Show & Tells
- Presentation skills focusing on Show & Tells
- Skills practice : Developing and presenting solution playback and Show & Tells
Online elearning
July 10-15
Online elearning
Dec 4-9
Q&A from Week 5 + review user stories, process maps & design document
HW - Show & Tell, User stories & Process Maps.
Live Zoom Call
Saturday, July 16
Live Zoom Call
Saturday, Dec 10
Show & Tell presentation + user stories & process maps.
Final Close-out.
Live Zoom Call
Saturday, July 17
Live Zoom Call
Sunday, Dec 11

Which choose this Masterclass?

Learn at your own pace, while still feeling ready to face clients by the end of the course. Are you juggling the course with work and/or other responsibilities? This weekend course fits neatly into your busy life, giving you more time to complete homework (e.g. drawing process maps) and work with your groups to prepare for skills practice such as client interview workshops.


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