Consulting Downside: Separation Anxiety

When I began interviewing with companies during my senior year of college, it was important for me to find a company that had a good culture. I had an outgoing personality and liked to have fun. I wanted a corporate culture that closely matched my personality....

Integrated Lunch: Cohesive Team

When a project team starts up, there are the typical team building practices that take place.  Although some teams implement formal team-building exercises like walking together on a beam, that’s not the type of thing I’m talking about. There are natural team building...

New Management: 3 Ways to Deal with It

Everybody deals with it at some time in their career.  Your boss gets canned and a new guy – or gal – has been hired to replace him. Rumors abound as everyone wants to get an idea of the new management’s style, approach, and most importantly, his agenda.  They...

Removal from a Client Project

It happens every once in a while.  A consultant is working with their project team and sometime during the project, the account manager speaks with the consultant and informs them that they are being rolled off of the project. Reasons for a removal from a client It...