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Why Hire A Consultant?
The following is a synopsis of postings on
CharityChannel.com's Consultants
Listserv provided as a community service by the Resource Development
Network. Take a look below at the reasons why a consultant can bring
great value to your organization.
Hire a consultant…
- To bring temporary or on-going expertise
that supplements, not supplants, your staff.
- To help with a special need; to do the
specialized work.
- To obtain expertise that you don't have
and to deliver quality that you might otherwise not be able to afford
to hire.
- To provide confidentiality or to inject
an objective voice.
- To bring in the "outside expert".
Sometimes leadership perceives that it's only the opinion of "the
expert" that counts.
- To see the situation through fresh, disinterested
eyes, without the filters and preconceived notions that internal people
may have.
- To gain efficiency: One can:
- ask a staff person to do something
they don't have time to do,
- hire a mediocre full-time person
at a salary below the level of an experienced expert, or
- hire an experienced consultant.
It is a matter of capacity and efficiency.
- To enable all staff and volunteers to
fully participate in a process such as strategic planning, without
one of them having to wear a facilitator's or coordinator's hat too.
- To achieve the efficiency of having an
expert for a short period of time. Most organizations have needs that
require specialized skills, but which are not sufficient in scope
to justify a full-time employee.
- To get the job done efficiently. A consultant,
guided by expertise and experience, is more likely to get the job
done right the first time.
- To model and offer learning - something
that a staff person may not be able to do as freely just because of
perceived power issues, hierarchical constraints, etc.
- To ask the right questions.
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