Three steps to be unique as a consultant

Victor Cheng who is a well known mentor for top consultants in Seattle states that: ”In consulting, your personal reputation is everything. It is the one thing by which everything else revolves around". As I see it - to work with your professional reputation as a consultant and entrepreneur could be done in three steps.

Discover your professional reputation. Most people realise the utmost importance of their professional reputation, but very few know the content of it and work with it. This means huge opportunities for the consultant or entrepreneur who has analysed it.

Develop your professional reputation. When you know every corner of your professional reputation, then you have the opportunity to develop it further. What perceived strengths and unique qualities do you want to strengthen further. And what do you want to put on your stop doing list to be phased out with due respect for time. 

Live and spread your professional reputation. Today clients look for people who constantly challenge the mediocre – people with passion, ambition, the ability to inspire and with the courage to act accordingly. Those who deep in their heart think that they can change things.