consultant

an expert who gives advice

"an adviser helped students select their courses"

"the United States sent military advisors to Guatemala"

A consultant (from the latin ''consultus'' meaning "legal expert") is a professional that provides expert advice in a particular domain or area of expertise such as accountancy, technology, the law, human resources, marketing, medicine, finance, public affairs, communication, or more esoteric areas of knowledge, for example engineering of different kinds, scientific specialties such as materials science, instrumentation, avionics, and stress analysis.A consultant is also the most senior medical position (e.g., a consultant surgerysurgeon).

Ways in which consultants work - Often a consultant provides expertise to clients who require a particular type of knowledge or service for a specific period of time, thus providing an economy to the client. In other situations, companies implementing a major project may need additional experienced staff to assist with increased work during that period.More recently the term is also used somewhat euphemistically for temporary staff. That resource is only permatemptemporarily employed by a company to augment the company's core set of employees without providing any unique expertise. This usually indicates that the consultant could be expended when demand for that particular skill diminishes, though this expendability is sometimes recompensed with higher pay.Sometimes a consultant is not an independent agent but is a partner or an employee of a consultancy, that is a company that provides consultants to clients on a larger scale or in multiple, though usually related, skill areas. This has advantages both to the client and to the consultant by:

Providing a pool of talent that can be quickly mobilised as required

Reassuring the client about the quality of the consultants supplied

Giving the client access to the experience and methodologies of the whole consultancy rather than an individual

Introducing the consultant to new experiences and techniques which may, eventually, permeate through the consultancy as a wholeA consultant giving career advice and training to an individual or a team is often termed a coachingcoach, and a consultant assisting an organization to develop a new strategy or solve a particular problem is sometimes referred to as a facilitatorfacilitator.Strategy consultants are common in upper management in many industries. There are also independent consultants who act as interim executives with decision-making power under corporate policies or statutes. They may sit on specially constituted boards or committees.

Books about consulting - #Managing the Professional Services Firm, by David Maister#Guerrilla Marketing for Consulting, by Jay Conrad Levinson and Michael W. McLaughlin#Flawless Consulting, by Peter Block#The Professional Services Firm Bible, by John Baschab#Managing Transitions, by William Bridges

See also -

management consulting and Certified Management Consultant

political consulting

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External links -

consulting.about.com - The Consulting / Freelance Site on the About.com network

freelance-pro.info - Tips for Freelancers and Consultants

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International Lactation Consultant Association
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