Top 5 Skills all successful Consultants need

Do you know the top 5 skills that all successful consultants need? In this video, I share the top skills that you need to succeed as a consultant. Successful consultants in Tier 1 consulting firms such as MBB (i.e. McKinsey, BCG, Bain) will likely have mastered these skills for a successful career in management consulting. Many people are asking: What skills do I need for consulting? In the video I talk about consulting soft skills, how to become a successful consultant and key skills you need to be a management consultant. Strategy consulting can be challenging, you better learn the most important consulting skills to succeed at firms like McKinsey consulting, BCG consulting or Bain consulting.

Chapters
00:00 Introduction
00:40 Skill 1
02:40 Skill 2
04:00 Skill 3
04:46 Skill 4
06:00 Skill 5
07:16 Additional remarks

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[FirmLearning]

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[monsieurijaiya]

Skill 1 - Business acumen
Skill 2 - Ability to influence people
Skill 3 - Quantitative and analytical skills
Skill 4 - Communication skills
Skill 5 - Resilience techniques

[judyl.]

Skill 1 - Business acumen
1:00 can be learned and developed. keenness and quickness to understand and deal with a "business situation"
understand accounting and finance. they assume they can talk with these people at eye level.

Skill 2 - Ability to influence people
2:50 since as an external consultant, you don't have authority to ask they do things. instead, you need to convince these people, and they want to follow.
3:20 leading without authority

Skill 3 - Quantitative and analytical skills
as first years, you will be responsible for this a lot.

Skill 4 - Communication skills
5:00 as a consultant, you're frequently leading client meeting. to sit with other senior people.
how good your powerpoint is. leave the presentation as you leave the company.

Skill 5 - Resilience techniques
a lot about self-reflection. personal development, and set the right boundaries when necessary.

[godwynpatricio]

In addition, these are some significant considerations of my clients: Punctuality and Good Planning Skills. The ability to show up on time during face-to-face/virtual meetings and being prepared for my presentations. I take note of these all the time. :)

[asdasdd]

Just here to boost the algorithm with the comment :)

[GuidoBrüggemann]

In my experience, the top points are the ability to radiate sympathy, integrity and competence in order to get an order in the first place

[yaseminhocaoglu]

Thank you Heinrich, especially for the book recommendations, influencing people without direct authority over them is one of the points I am still struggling 👍🏻 would be nice to hear your thoughts on conflict management, sometimes it is not easy to manage a conflict in the business setting without stepping on someone's toe 😅

[aaryayadav]

Consistent top quality content, Vielen Danke, H. kannst du bitte auch ein praktikum bei der beratungsfirma video machen?

[MagnicraftConsulting]

I would add being objective and listening skills

[flondon]

My favorite is leading team members over who you do not have influence. Leadership is such an untaught skill set in the corporate space, but yet is so much needed. Young professionals can become such great leaders if only they are taught to be such by their leaders.

[thatgirlml]

Totally agree on resilience in order to cont ur hustle!

[tavsjaukaisskaistaissencis]

I would love to hear tips on how to narrow down and specialize in the consulting world. I feel like if, apart from general business acumen knowledge, I also learn a lot about my fields of interest, I might advance much faster by offerring my consulting expertise in a narrowed down industry or something like that. My goal is to work in consulting for 5-10 years so I want to maximize my profits for the time being.

[PianolifeYiwei]

Hi Henrich! I think the ability to ask good and insightful question is also very important, both to work better and to build good conversations/professional relationships. Could you do a video about how we can better improve our ability to ask good questions? Thanks so much for the great quality content, been following this for some months and they helped me greatly!

[RahulDas-pgux]

Thanks Heinrich. Will be working kn the first point

[elyas.e]

Beautiful! This is the video that I've been waiting for since I found your channel Heinrich :)... Based on my experience I would say that resilience is probably the most important skill of them all. I noticed that showing an aptitude to quickly learn and develop one's skills as a consultant is quite appreciated by senior consultants, and this is related to being resilient I think.

Thanks, and looking forward to our next coffee break ;) Best! Elyas E.

[ajb]

Once again I notice a lot of overlap between internal audit skill set and consulting skill set. I have most of those but definitely would need to improve my Excel and PowerPoint knowledge!

[missglow]

Great video....Another one is, Time management. By the way, i like your accent 🤩

[alpinangga]

To the author, nice video you have been made. I want to ask you what book should consultant read / mastering? I am still newbie

[qiuhuayang]

greetings from Munich;) thanks for all your videos

[sitrakaforler]

Short enough vidéo, with 5 key points.
This is great quality content ! BRAVO !

Also is 26 years old too old to start consulting ? ^^"