About The Consulting Experience Workshop

Who should attend

Workshop benefits

How this workshop is different

Workshop focus

What people say

What you will receive

What you will learn

About the workshop developer

Do you want to:

• Own your own part-time consulting business?
• Supplement your income with a part-time consulting business?
• Profit from the real worth of your knowledge and expertise?
• Sell your expertise with pride, dignity, and respect?
• Get excited about innovative consulting ideas by networking with other educational innovators?
• Sell educational info products and services?
• Spotlight your knowledge and expertise with powerful workshops?
• Earn KnowledgeDollars™ by learning the business of consulting?
• Improve workshop enrollment through client-centered marketing?
• Be viewed as an educational entrepreneur?

If you answered “Yes” to any of these questions, this workshop is for you.

Who should attend?

• Full-time and adjunct college and university instructors
• Public school educators
• Corporate, government, and military trainers
• Health professions personnel
• Retirees who want to market their skills
• Anyone who would like to develop a home business
  
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Benefits you will receive by attending

• Find success in a consulting business at any time in your career.
• Balance your time between your regular job and your consulting business.
• Develop the self confidence to establish your own business.
• Network with other professionals with similar interests and share ideas with them.
• Shift your thinking from "education only" to the business of education.
  
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This workshop is different because…

The instructors are seasoned consultants and workshop leaders who have worked in the business and academic communities. They will share their secrets of success for turning your knowledge and expertise into real monetary worth. Not only will you learn the business of consulting, you will also learn how to conduct a successful workshop. The instructors will answer any question that you ask. This workshop is packed with useful information and resources that would take months to locate on your own. If you sneeze once, you'll miss three important ideas.

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Workshop focus

At the completion of this workshop, you will have the “how to” skills to develop your own consulting business. This new workshop will guide you in defining your areas of marketable expertise and interest, and show you how to establish a home based consulting business, how to market your skills, and how to design a winning workshop. You will have an opportunity to explore a broad range of ideas for defining your consulting niche. You need not have a specific consulting area in mind when you attend. There will be ample opportunities to network with other professionals who are also developing their consulting businesses. You can bounce your ideas off of them. The instructors will be available for questions throughout the workshop.

This workshop deals with practical applications of relevant information for the development of a profitable consulting business. It is highly interactive with lots of exercises and activities that let you share ideas and help you to pinpoint your own areas of interest.

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What people say

• A very practical, results-oriented workshop presented by people who exude genuine enthusiasm to help you get what you need to be successful. Great… for mid-career faculty… thinking about how to "re-engage" upon retirement.
  • Judy L. Martin, Missouri Western State College
    
    
• This workshop helped take some general concepts and focus them into marketable ideas.
  • Bill Yarborough, Presbyterian College
    
    
• This workshop helps busy professionals quickly identify their consulting focus. It also provides the basic tools you need to start your own consulting business. The experience of the presenters is without peer. I highly recommend it.
  • Charles Townley, Knowledge Associates, LLC
    
    
• I signed up because I was in a fog about how to become a consultant. I learned specific steps to develop professionally and to create a company. I got much more than I really expected.
  • James M. Grant, Simpson College
    

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What you will receive

Each participant will receive a specially developed Participant Workbook that describes and models how to conduct workshops. This highly interactive workbook contains a great deal of information about consulting and provides a variety of print and World Wide Web references. You will be able to use this workbook as a reference throughout the stages of growing your consulting business.

Once you register for this new and one-of-a-kind workshop, you will be provided with a secure Web address where you can download a self-assessment document that will help you to define your areas of expertise and interest.

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You will learn:

• How to identify and explore your own areas of expertise.
• Secrets of identifying a niche market and ways to describe a target audience.
• Criteria for establishing a consulting fee.
• How to write an educationally-based business plan.
• How to set up your home-based consulting business inexpensively.
• 6 expense areas you will need to consider to start up your consulting business.
• 8 ways to title a formal agreement and components to include in a workshop agreement.
• Powerful strategies for creating a professional image.
• 8 ways to identify the competition and then blow them out of the water.
• Criteria to select a host hotel for workshops and what you can bargain for.
• How to write a biographical sketch that markets “you.”
• 5 different legal structures–which ones do and which ones don't protect your personal assets and liability.
• How to cash in on the new emerging educational markets.
• Info products that you can develop for workshop back-of-the-room sales that almost double your profit.
• Where to locate helpful resources that you can use now.
• AND MUCH, MUCH MORE!
  
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About the workshop developer

The Consultancy Workshop has been developed by Thomas E. Cyrs, Ed.D. He has conducted hundreds of successful workshops for thousands of participants nationally and internationally. Attendees have come from more than 30 countries. Working with faculty and interested professionals from a variety of disciplines, he has encouraged and aided them to establish successful consultantcy practices. Tom brings to this workshop years of experience and practical knowledge. If success breeds success, Tom and his associates can show you how.

November--June

900 Conway Avenue
Las Cruces NM 88005

Telephone: 1-505/523-9565
E-mail: edacyrs@zianet.com

June-October

25 Highland Terrace #2505
Plymouth MA 02360

Telephone: 1-508/224-6359
E-mail: tcyrs@netway.com