3 years of Management Consulting – Awesome Journey

Today marks 3yrs of “professional” working life and 3yrs of Management Consulting. It had been just 5 days since my last working day at college and I was in a dream job at Milagrow. More interestingly I happened to be at my first client meeting right on the first day. So started consulting and sending out my first report on how the client’s website could be improved.

Looking back seems like I learnt much. From writing official e-mails, to planning meetings, to hospitality (being nice), to meaning of value addition, to magic (read scamming), to handling client relationships, to failing. I also recognize that the most predominant form of learning was from “getting kicked around”. Seems a totally worth it journey this far!

Quite pleasantly surprised that I got the opportunity to work with 18 clients from 12 different industries/sectors:

Fitness	Home & bar accessories	Gems & jewellery
Education	Health Care	Non-Profit
Recruitment & Training	Real Estate	Infrastructure
Automobile Accessories	Travel & Hospitality	Media & Advertising

This is time for gratitude. Feel extremely fortunate to have got the opportunities I have got in the various consulting interventions. Connecting the dots backward today, I can see one assignment lead to another allowing me to apply what I had learnt and learn much more to contribute to whichever extent I could.

Time for expressing gratitude also to the awesome people who were part of this amazing journey: my colleagues, bosses, partners, counterparts from client side, friends & family. All of them have supported me in ways I cant even comprehend and contributed in ways perhaps they are unaware of. This journey wouldn’t have been as enjoyable without all these people teaching, pushing, caring and celebrating with me.

As the day ends, I realize its time to move ahead. Realize that the expectations from me for me and others have increased. Realize that bar has been raised higher. Realize that the scope for repeating mistakes is diminishing. Realize that ‘what I need to learn’ is the only metric that is on a continuous incline. Realize that I’ve not been bad, but there is “large opportunity for improvement” (consulting jargon for “not performing to optimum”). Realize that things are and will be the way they are supposed to be.

This is an open invitation to all to join into the party of “getting kicked around”. Looking forward to the journey ahead.

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