YOU ARE INVITED TO THE "CONSULTING INSTITUTE" LIVE
The “Consulting Institute” LIVE is where Bobb Biehl shares live the wise, proven concepts that have helped over 500 clients – Large and fast growing churches – not for profit organizations – for profit corporations – government agencies – since 1976 in over 40,000 hours of his consulting practice.
If you would like to make a living as a consultant – YOU ARE INVITED.
If you just want to learn the principles that let you be a wise mentor to rising executives – YOU ARE INVITED.
If you just want to be a more confident board member – YOU ARE INVITED.
Bobb teaches the very best of what he has learned in over 30 years of consulting with some of the finest leaders of our generation about leadership, management, and life. And, tries to teach it to the group in 5 intense days. When you graduate the “Consulting Institute” notebooks are available to you ... 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year, to give you confidence in your consulting for the rest of your life.
5 DAYS – LIMITED TO 20 IN ATTENDANCE.
WHY SHOULD I ATTEND?
WHAT I WISH PETER DRUCKER HAD OFFERED IN 1976
The Consulting Institute is precisely what I wish Dr. Peter Drucker had o? ered when I was getting started as a consultant back in 1976. I wished I had someone with 30 years of experience to help me navigate my “trial and error” phase of getting started as a consultant.
Later I did spend 2 days – about leadership in general not “how to be a consultant” – in a retreat center with Peter and a few other senior executives. It was an intense time of learning, re-evaluating, and focusing. I have referenced my time with Peter to friends / clients / strangers 100’s of times in the past 25 years. It was a water shed point in my professional career.
It is my hope that the Consulting Institute will not only be a water shed event of learning, re-evaluating, and focusing for you ... but, it will also be a major accelerator for your consulting career as well. I will be giving you the very best I know about consulting after 30+ years of consulting.
This will be a week of my trading 30+ years of experience for the “trial and error” phase of your consulting career.
EXECUTIVE MENTOR
Since 1976 I have consulted with over 500 clients / senior executives. I have spent hours with over 5,000 executive sta? members. My best estimate is that I have spent over 50,000 hours behind closed doors / and emotional defense systems.
From this 30 plus years of experience I have distilled out the essence and committed them to over 35 tools (books / tapes / papers) to bring Clarity and Con?dence in the areas of Leadership / Management / Life.
Each of these days with clients and each of these tools have had one common focus ... “Strengthening Christian Leaders World Wide” ... which is our dream statement. And, this is the focus of the Consulting Institute as well. The Institute is the very best insights I’ve learned about consulting over the past 30+ years to help accelerate your consulting career!
EXPERIENCE
To facilitate our time together we will be staying at a 4 star hotel. A great place to relax and grow. There will be ample time for you ask each and every one of your questions about how consulting / leadership / organizational development works in the “real world”!
Some learn far better by Interaction / Role Play / Discussions than by reading a book. If you have felt my books / tapes are helpful ... this should be like a book on steroids!
At meals and breaks there will also be plenty of 1:1 with Bobb to ask personal questions.
LIFE LONG NETWORK
Some executives have alumni from Harvard, Cambridge, or Yale to call on. You will now have the fellow graduates of the Consulting Institute ... in your life long Rolodex!
TAKE AWAY
With these hundreds of tools your consulting confidence will grow as you know exactly what to do, to say, to give in hundreds of client situations.
With this increased consulting confidence you will also go home with an increased ability to earn significant income / supplements – build an in--house consulting team – help others – give back / be a far better board member.
You will also take home a class picture – My picture of my time with Peter and the class still hangs proudly on the wall of my office. This picture will be a life long reminder of the life long friends you will make at the Institute.
You will also take hundreds of pictures home in your memory.
THE IDEAL CONSULTANT
ATTITUDE
Your Consultant Should...
BE HUMBLE
Your consultant should be one who is genuinely centered on you the client.
BE FLEXIBLE
Your consultant should be able to flex on a moment's notice to go with your newly adjusted agenda for the day.
Your consultant must have deep experience. At the same time he should remain teachable in his understanding of your uniqueness, approaches and strengths.
BE A "POWERFUL SERVANT"
Your consultant should stay consistently focused on bringing his considerable strength to bear on helping accomplish you agenda.
BE A MENTOR
Your consultant's heart attitude should be, "My friend I'm here to help you win!"
CHARACTER/VALUES
Your Consultant Should...
BE A BELIEVER
Assuming you are a believer your consultant should be a mature believer who is focused on serving and obeying God.
BE A PERSON OF CHARACTER
Your consultant should have no unresolved skeletons in his closet.
BE FOCUSED BY A "LIFE DREAM"
Ideally, your consultant will have a life long dream which is in alignment with helping you get where you are going.
EXPERIENCE
Your Consultant Should...
A VISIBLE SUCCESS
Your consultant should have a visible success in his own life.
A BROAD EXPERTISE
You are looking for depth. Your consultant should be able to teach you a wide variety of processes, principles and tools.
AN EXTENSIVE NETWORK
Ideally, your consultant should have an extensive network of capable friends.
PERSONALITY
Your Consultant Should...
BE CREDIBLE
Your consultant should be one you sense you can trust - to help you get where you are going - in the first hour (or two) you are together.
BE EMPATHETIC
Your consultant should communicate with empathy. He should keep asking, "If I were you...if this were my organization...if I were in this exact situation...considering all of my processes / principles / experience...what would I do?"
BE RELATIONAL
Your consultant should be one who relates equally well to men and women.
BE CONFIDENT
Your consultant should be one who has a confident inner core.
PROFILE
Your Consultant Should...
BE A DESIGNER/DEVELOPER, A DEVELOPER OR A DEVELOPER STABILIZER
(These profiles are take from "Team Profile", available from Aylen Publishing. 800-433-1976)
A DESIGNER/DEVELOPER
Wise in developing fresh/original concepts, ideas, approaches, or...
A DEVELOPER
Courageous in helping expand/build/develop out organization, or...
A DEVELOPER STABILIZER
Faithful in refining your existing organization, making it better, or imporving what is already in place
BE WISE
Your consultant should be known by his friends as a practical and wise person.
BE RESULTS ORIENTED
Your consultant should be more interested in measurable results that the appearance of success.
BE REALISTICALLY OPTIMISTIC
Your consultant should find it east to stay realistically optimistic.
POLICIES
Your Consultant Should..
ALWAYS DO WHAT IS BEST FOR THE CLIENT
Your consultant should be one who always drives toward a "Triple Win". You win, he wins, and your team wins as well.
ALWAYS LET THE CLIENT MAKE THE FINAL DECISIONS
Your consultant should be who will brainstorm, suggest, recommend, or urge, but will always leave final decision to you.
NEVER BETRAY A CLIENT'S CONFIDENT
Your consultant should be one who would never share your confidential information unless you have given him permission to do so, or your information has been published.
STRENGTHS
Your Consultant Should Have the Ability...
TO ASK PROFOUND QUESTIONS WISELY
Your consultant should be one who wisely asks profound questions which help quickly focus the conversation on your boulders...and, then stay focused on your boulders all day long.
TO WORK WITH SENIOR EXECUTIVES CONFIDENTLY
Your consultant should be one who is very confident in working with senior executives.
TO WORK LONG HOURS/TRAVEL FLEXIBILITY
Your consultant should be one who has good health and physical stamina.
TO USE PROFOUNDLY SIMPLE TOOLS APPROPRIATELY
Your consultant should have a wide range of proven tools (charts, illustrations, models, concepts, diagrams, etc) available to help you deal with any of your complicated issues in profoundly simple ways.
TO COMMUNICATE EFFECTIVELY
Your consultant should be one who speaks clearly in simple words anyone can understand.
TO FOCUS ON THE CLIENT FOR HOURS AT A TIME COMFORTABLY
A Consultant should have the physical stamina to be able to sit for hours at a time discussing the details of your situation.
TO WORK AT A PROCESS/PRINCIPLE LEVEL CONSISTENTLY
Your consultant should be one who works consistently at a process/principle level.
Over the last five years Bobb Biehl has helped our company create clarity of the future, as well as a balance of the present. This has allowed us to focus on the dreams of our clients and experience 10X growth in the last five years.
DAVE CAVAN Owner, CAVAN Real Estate Investments, Scottsdale AZ
Bobb askes the right questions that prompt the right decisions that have helped more our organization forward. His insight has been of tremendous assistance to me and the Family Research Council.
TONY PERKINS President, Family Research Council, Washinton, D.C.
Bobb Biehl's profound council to the Alliance Defense Fund literally moved us from dreams to reality. Bobb taught us how to focus our communications about what God was doing, and people reponded at an amazing level.
ALAN E. SEARS President, CEO and General Counsel, Alliance Defense Fund, Scottsdale, AZ