1. A self-assessment of your consulting skills based on your experience in the field project. What skills did you perform well? Which were you deficient? Was this what you expected at the outset? How have your views changed or remained the same about consulting? What would you have to do to improve your skills if you were to pursue a career in consulting? Use examples and evidence from your project to support your conclusions. Try to make it an honest assessment that can be useful to you in the future.
2. An essay on some aspect of the consulting field that interests you. This could involve, for example, some predictions about future developments in the industry, or a new market opportunity that you’ve identified, or a new approach to consulting, or a proposal for developing better consultants, etc. Develop and support your essay as if your paper would be published in a trade magazine on consulting.
Whichever alternative you choose, you should ask one other student/colleague to read your completed paper and comment on it before you submit it.
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