Join us the second Thursday of each month at Network Performance (85 Green Mountain Drive, South Burlington VT) at 8 a.m. for topics related to consulting practice and small business management.

Our Next Meeting

Thursday - March 8, 2012

Building Collaborative Relationships with Other Consultants
Open Forum Moderated by Bill Hancy, Epiphancy LLC

Consultants consulting with consultants – now that can be a scary visual! But unless we live and work in caves, we must collaborate with other consultants to sustain and grow our businesses. This forum will concentrate on how to build and maintain relationships between our practices-consultant to consultant (C2C). We will begin by defining “collaboration,” “relationship,” and “consultant.” We will explore the viability of such relationships; i.e., are they even necessary, and if so, when? We will identify where to look for C2C relationships and how to manage them by walking our talk: practicing applicable theories of group dynamics and team-building.

Bill Hancy has consulted for over 14 years to federal, state, and local government agencies, and to a variety of businesses and non-profits. He is the principal of Epiphancy, LLC, a Veteran-owned, consulting firm in Swanton, Vermont. His primary skill areas emphasize organization development, leadership development, group facilitation, and community engagement, using adult learning and collaborative facilitation techniques. Bill is also an adjunct faculty professor at Champlain College and Vermont Community College. He is retired from the United States Air Force, having served 23 years. You can find him online at  www.Epiphancy.com and www.linkedin.com/in/bhancy.

 

Upcoming Meetings:

April 12: Pricing Your Consulting Services / Terry Stone – Business Performance Solutions

May 10: Business Plans for Consultants: creating them mid-stream, updating them, exit strategies – Open forum

June – Annual Dinner Meeting – date/location TBA

 Future Topics:

* Financial “behavior” – how to identify and address clients’ attitudes about spending resources on consultants

* Expanding your Market by Client Size and/or Geographic Region

* Keeping the right balance of clients

* Using Technological Advances to Enhance Client Communications

* Business Plans for Consultants: creating them mid-stream, updating them, exit strategies

* Using Technology advances to enhance client communications – web meetings, VOIP, Skype