Week 1

LEM3020 Integrated consultancy

practice

Week 1

Jonathan Hazell

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Introductions• Why me?

• Who are you?

• Why are you here?

• Where next for you?

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The rules of engagement . . .• Listen, don’t write anything down


• Listen, don’t write anything down

• Argue the toss, constructively!




• These slides are freely available on-line

http://www.slideshare.net/HazellTowers







• With a bit of luck and a following wind there will be notes on-line too!







• But, if you’re a compulsive scribbler, I’ve flagged key messages,







• But, if you’re a compulsive scribbler, I’ve flagged key messages, like so


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Remember . . .

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• I’m here to help you understand the Chinese proverb, apparently made famous by Benjamin Franklin (and to learn from you):


Tell me and I'll forget;


Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember;


Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember;involve me and I'll understand.


Overview

• Module overview

• Delivery

• Timings

• Style


This week’s topics

• What is a consultant?

• How does this differ from being a contractor?

• How is consultancy organised?

• How is it regulated?

• The legal framework

• Criminal and civil law

• What services might the consultant offer?• Why?

• How?

• What are the limitations?• capital

• intellectual

• marketing

• price

• reputation


Next week

• The consultant as a competent person

• Responding to the brief

• Agreeing heads of terms

• Please read BS 5837:2012 and present me with a considered review – we’ll do the same at the end of the Module and compare


What is a consultant?

• Someone who sells their knowledge and experience rather than their practical skills

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What is a consultant?

• Someone who sells their knowledge and experience rather than their practical skills

• The little grey cells may have emerged from years of developing and honing practical skills, but then again . . .

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How is this different to a contractor?

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How is consultancy organised?

• How would you like it to be organised?• sole trader?

• multi-disciplinary intellectual enterprise?

• business unit within a tree care operation?

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How is consultancy regulated?

• The various membership organisations and professional bodies play their part

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How is consultancy regulated?

• The various membership organisations and professional bodies play their part

• And so does the law

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The legal framework

• The law is divided into two• Criminal law

• Civil law

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Criminal law

• rules of behaviour laid down by Parliament for the greater good

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Criminal law

• enforcement by a number of different agencies

• sanctions may involve loss of liberty so the burden of proof is “beyond reasonable doubt”• HSW Act enforced by HSE or local

authority Environmental Health Officers

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Civil law

• disputes between individuals, or individuals and companies


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Civil law

• the plaintiff sues the defendant to address a civil wrong or tort

• the court is concerned with liability rather than guilt, the burden of proof is the “balance of probability”

• sanction is generally compensation, maybe costs

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What might the consultant offer?

• tree safety,

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• tree safety,

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• tree safety,

• tree health and condition,

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• tree safety,



MANAGEMENT OF THE RISK FROM FALLING TREES OR BRANCHES SIM 01/2007/05


• tree safety,


• tree management,



• tree safety,





• tree safety,



• trees and the built form,

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• tree safety,






• tree safety,




• tree valuation



• tree safety,




• tree valuation

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• tree safety,




• tree valuation

• tree inventory



• tree safety,




• tree valuation

• tree inventory

• tree strategy



• tree safety,




• tree valuation

• tree inventory

• tree strategy

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What are the limitations?



• capital

• intellectual

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• capital

• intellectual

• marketing



• capital

• intellectual

• marketing

• price

• reputation


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Education

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