David Allen – the man behind the GTD brand and the book Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity – offers the GTD Mastering Workflow seminar. Here is the promise:
What You’ll Learn
- Highly effective and simple techniques for handling email, paperwork and projects.
- How to implement specific action steps to make sure that you are aware of all of your commitments (to yourself and others)
- How to capture what has your attention, and place it into a system that you can trust – day in and day out
- How to clarify and organize your work, and reduce your sense of overwhelm in the process
- How to file paperwork, reading, emails, notes, and more – so that you can find it all again where and when you need it
Whoa! That’s exactly what I need! … Or do I?
As a field consultant I have developed my personal approaches when I was working for Microsoft Consulting Services (MCS). In this post I am reflecting on my approach to the workflow and the techniques I am using.
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Below is the list of books every consultant should read.
The books are not necessary focused on consulting – it is about marketing, customer service, leadership, personal effectiveness, writing, and more.
I have added posts inspired by each book for the reference.
Consultant or not, many of these books are great resource to help anyone to grow. It helped me, it will help you.
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It takes ages to build trust in consulting. It only takes a moment to lose it. I call it trust and Geoffrey M. Bellman calls it partnership in his book The Consultant’s Calling: Bringing Who You Are to What You Do, New and Revised
Bellman gives a good list of reasons why partnership [or trust] is easily lost. Here it is:
- The contracting is unclear.
- You work your own agenda.
- The fit is poor.
- The client has too much work and too little money.
- The project becomes less important to the client.
- You accept the work you would not ordinarily do.
- You after the money.
- You catch the client’s "disease".
- You hold naïve positive assumptions.
- You pretend.
I wish I had this list long ago, before I learned it myself.
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