Consultants Should Work with You, Not for You!

It’s not unusual for planning agencies to hire consultants to support a range of activities. It’s often seen as an easy fix for a lack of capacity or specific skill set, including DEI expertise. However, very few people are ever taught how to effectively procure, contract with, and manage a consultant. It’s easy to have high aspirations for a client-consultant relationship, project process, and the resulting project outcomes; it’s just as easy to be disappointed in the reality of managing the work. Meanwhile your staff may be left thinking they could have done a better job in-house!

Experts in planning agency leadership and effective planning consulting present concrete examples of how to approach each step of utilizing and managing consultants to ensure better outcomes for your organization and the project. Learn how to shift from using consultants to add capacity temporarily to improving capacity in the long run. Leave with strategies for deploying consultants to support your DEI efforts and ensuring that when you use consultants your agency walks away stronger, with better skills and a result that staff are proud to own.

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