Elite Organisation: The Operating Systems for Successful Consultants
Doing the boring things well is a powerful weapon to reflect your professionalism and impress your clients.
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Impress With Your Organisational Skills
It’s genuinely impressive to do the boring things well.
For years, organisational was my biggest weakness. I would get excited about doing the work but my processes and organisational skills were poor. This manifested itself in me not doing the following:
Keeping project timelines up to date.
Taking good notes from client meetings.
Sending and gathering feedback from clients on notes.
Having an agenda for meetings.
Ensuring we gained official sign-off on deliverables.
Using change order requests to amend the scope of work.
Utilising a proper filing/organisational structure.
Sending invoices at the right time.
I told myself a story that I was relaxed, flexible, and easy to work with. It was part of my brand.
In truth, it was laziness and I found the process side of cons…
