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AEA Course: Intermediate Consulting Skills

  • 30 Apr 2013
  • Online
eStudy 029: Staying Power: Intermediate Consulting Skills for Evaluators - Gail Barrington 
Dates: Wednesdays May 8 & 15, 12:00 to 1:30 PM Eastern Time
Length: 3 total contact hours 
Description: Are you already managing a consulting practice? Do you find that you look forward to the field work but avoid dealing with the small business demands? Join Gail Barrington in this 3 hour webinar series as she explores some of these challenging consulting management issues. 

Evaluators and applied researchers may be well versed in academic research processes, but uncertain about how to handle the entrepreneurial and small business management skills needed to be successful independent consultants. For those aspiring to have a thriving practice, this workshop addresses common problems encountered in the day-to-day running of a small consulting business and identifies some of the key issues faced by consultants.

This workshop will help participants problem solve around the ongoing challenges of a consulting practice. For those looking to fine-tune their current professional practice, a seasoned practitioner/award winner/author will share from her more than two decades of experience. This eStudy will occur in two 90-minute sessions. Each session will cover three inter-related topics.

Day 1: Fresh approaches to marketing, Pricing strategies, Contracting for success 

Day 2: Communicating with clients, Managing work processes, Fostering innovation 

Presenter: Gail Barrington has more than 25 years of practical experience. She founded Barrington Research Group, Inc. in 1985 and has conducted more than 100 program evaluation studies. In 2008, she won the Canadian Evaluation Society award for her Contribution to Evaluation in Canada. A frequent AEA presenter, she is the author of a new book entitled Consulting Start-up & Management: A Guide for Evaluators and Applied Researchers, released by SAGE in 2012.
Register: https://www.eval.org/webinar_reg/Registrationtop.asp 
Last day to register is Wednesday May 1

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