Management - Coveted Consultant

Email Overload: How to Get Fewer Emails and Be More Productive

Edited Video Transcript: When you wake up, you check your email. Before you start work, you check your email. Before you go to bed, you check your email. Wait. Are you chief email checker, or do you actually run a business? Hey, it’s Alzay Calhoun with Coveted Consultant. This video series is all about giving…

Stop Doing Everything: How to Avoid the Org Chart of Death

Edited Video Transcript: I mean, why hire a team if you’re just going to end up doing all of the work yourself? Doesn’t make sense to me. Hey, it’s Alzay Calhoun with Coveted Consultant, and this whole video series is dedicated to giving leaders better tools to build the best in class business that you…

Client Acquisition: The Critical Path to Predictable Profits

Edited Video Transcript: Nothing encourages chief firefighter behavior like the fear of losing clients. Let’s talk about that leader to leader right now in this video. Today’s video is about the fear of losing clients, because when that fear creeps through an organization, it changes your behavior. You start to over-supervise how you get new…

Small Business Leadership: CEO Job Description

Edited Video Transcript: But it’s your company, right? So why are you firefighting everyone else’s job? Oh, that’s because you’re not really sure what you should be doing as a leader of the company? Got it. We can fix that right now in this video. Stay tuned. Hey, it’s Alzay Calhoun with Coveted Consultant. This…

Small Business Leadership: 3 Ugly Myths Hidden In Your Business

Edited Video Transcript: You’ve done all the heavy lifting to create a profitable business. Why do things still seem so hard? We’re talking about that right now. Stay tuned. Hey, it’s Alzay Calhoun with Coveted Consultant. This video series is focused on the opportunities that you have as a leader to create a best in…

For Exhausted CEOs: How to Avoid the Low-Level Tasks and Get Back to Growth

Warning: This conversation is for leaders ONLY You are the main messenger, rainmaker, and fearless leader. You are responsible for the core strategy and values that drives your business. Your clarity defines the power, impact, speed, virality, and profitability of your business. …and somewhere along the way you turned into “Chief Firefighter”. You’ve lost your sense…

57 Strategies for Dealing with Difficult Clients: Resource Guide

Welcome to this resource guide for dealing with difficult clients. No matter what your consulting business looks like eventually you will deal with difficult clients. Clients can be angry, overwhelmed, price sensitive, demanding, secretive, and the list goes on… Still, regardless of your scenario, it is ultimately your response that determines the final outcome of…

3 Common Bottlenecks in a Consulting Company And How to Fix Them

Even the very best consulting businesses get stuck sometimes. The common bottlenecks in a consulting company are typically in one of three places. Lead generation (the constant grind of hunting down new clients) Client services (expanding scope creep killing the project’s profit margin) Referrals and recurring revenue (no strategy for how to turn one project…

How to Start A Consulting Business

A member of the community, Nick, reached out and asked a couple of questions about how to start a consulting business. Specifically he wanted to use assessments as part of his onboarding process for new clients. Well, a couple of emails later we found ourselves in one heck of a conversation and I thought it…

Organizational Chart Template For Consulting Companies

In today’s post , I’m going to give you a step by step explanation of a more efficient, effective organizational chart template for consulting companies. It even includes a mindmap and video to make the model as clear as possible. But first, a warning in advance:. I am NOT following the typical, conventional Organizational Chart. The…