>> So the ideal management consultant is somebody that you can throw into a meeting
with a client, and they can handle that situation well.
When I was in college, many of those words that I just said meant nothing to me, like, client,
or meeting, or any of those things.
So what I really mean by that is you have to be comfortable being confident in front of people
who are much more senior than you, who know their business inside and out,
even though you're in that situation, expected to be kind of an expert on the subject.
It all comes down to confidence, and I recommend leadership experience to really get that kind
of confidence because oftentimes a leader isn't somebody who, like, knows everything
but is just the person who is willing to raise their hand first or sort of put the first idea
on the table in a brainstorming discussion or anything like that.
The other half of the house is the ability to not be external but be internal and to be able
to process problems in a logical way, tell a story, like I mentioned earlier,
in a structured way that makes sense and weaves the different pieces together and a lot
of what we do is quantitative analysis.
So the ability to crunch numbers and have an intuitive understanding of what it means
when your sales volume doubles or triples.
These kinds of metrics and indicators come with a sort
of intuitive feel and understanding for numbers.
So for that side of the house, I would recommend any kind of quantitative,
rigorous courses that will help you feel more confident doing that kind of thing.