Chat Topic: Building a Thriving Consulting Practice
If you are consulting to Community Benefit / “Nonprofit” Organizations in these difficult economic times, there is a good chance you are being asked to help them “survive” in some way.
If you are good at what you do, you may be working with them to aim beyond survival, on towards sustainability. And if you are really good at what you do, you are working with them on moving beyond “sustainability” and out towards “thrivability.”
That, of course, begs the question: What are you doing to help your own consulting practice thrive? What sustains the work YOU do?
How are you moving from surviving to sustaining to thriving in your consulting work?
We’ve heard consultants who teach their clients how to “sustain and thrive” throw up their own hands in despair at how the economy is wreaking havoc on their business.
We’ve also heard consultants who tell us business has never been better.
Where do you fall in the spectrum? And what are you doing to move your practice from survivability to thrivability?
Tune in on Tuesday, January 26 at 1pm US-Pacific time, and let’s all find out together!
Why do we put “nonprofit” in quotes? It’s all about the difference between surviving and thriving! Can we think of our consulting work in the same powerful way?
Many thanks to Jean Russell for her unwavering efforts to move this whole world toward thrivability.



This post has 3 comments
January 25th, 2010
Thank you for asking these useful and powerful questions! Deep bows and gratitude.
January 26th, 2010
Greetings,
A colleague pointed me to this. How does one “do” a TwitterChat? Is it as simple as following #NPCons and refreshing.
Also, I use HootSuite — is there a better tool/platform, in your opinion?
John
Twitter: johnmarchiony
Web: enterprisefactory.com — We find the profits in nonprofits.
January 26th, 2010
John:
Welcome! Following and participating in a Twitter Chat is fairly simple – it is all described at the About button at the top of this page.
While any platform will allow you to follow a chat, we recommend http://tweetchat.com/ – just type in the hashtag for the chat you want to follow (i.e. #NPCons) and the system will automatically add the hashtag to your tweet (no need to remember to do that).
I hope that’s helpful. We look forward to seeing you there!
Hildy