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Questioning, listening, influencing.

Clive

Flour, water, and salt.

They’re the only ingredients you need to make tasty Sourdough bread. Supermarket bread has five times the number of ingredients. It tastes like cardboard.

Questioning, listening, influencing.

They’re the three key capabilities for great consulting. And they’re also the recipe for tasty client relationships. Unless you want transactional cardboard ones

Mini-misson - Remove everything else.

Lots of other 'stuff' creeps into our practice. These things lessen our impact. Notice what you're doing beside questioning, listening, influencing.

Ditch that unless it's truly adding value.

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