Welcome to our Consulting Skills Development Dashboard.  

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Consulting Skills Development Overview

Consulting skills underpin any role in professional services or industry. Our programme, developed over 30 years, offers comprehensive training from consultancy basics to advanced skills, enhancing client interactions, problem diagnosis, teamwork, and aligning with organizational values and is facilitated by experienced consulting practitioners.

On this programme you will learn how to work better with clients, successfully diagnose problems and improve personal effectiveness within a team and how to apply the consulting process in line with your organisation’s culture and values.

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Industry Report

Predicted Top 10 Skills of 2025 - by the World Economic Forum

Analytical thinking and innovation
Active learning and learning strategies
Complex problem-solving
Critical thinking and analysis
Creativity, originality and initiative
Leadership and social influence
Technology use, monitoring and control
Technology design and programming
Resilience, stress tolerance and flexibility
Reasoning, problem-solving and ideation

Source: Future of Jobs Report 2020, World Economic Forum

Development Programmes

Consulting Skills Development

External Research - Clear Company

Accreditation

Openside modules mapped at every level and framework of The Chartered Management Consultant (ChMC) certification, the highest recognition of a management consultant’s expertise, experience and talent given within the profession.

Newsroom

Why now is the time for your consulting firm to revisit its professional development strategy

Openside Learning Technology

Vienna

Testimonial

“Interactive session with group work to help learn about strategy consulting methodologies.” – Tech Strategy Analyst, Business Consulting.

Testimonial

“Insightful session with a relevant speaker. It is difficult to find facilitators that understand our way of working so they have the knowledge to inspire us.” – Partner, Business Consulting.