Management consultants are fantastic problem solvers, as shown by their high demand. Nearly two-thirds of consulting firms report being short-staffed, with 92% labeling staffing as a “crisis” for their firm. Additionally, 20% of firms are turning down business because of low staffing.
To help save valuable time, management consultants need a way to organize their meetings and priorities to maintain work efficiency. Here’s why coAmplifi is the solution your firm needs.
Common Calendar Challenges for Management Consultants
A day in the life of a management consultant is unique as they often work with multiple clients at a time, monitoring essential details and important meetings to help clients resolve a wide range of issues.
Consultants must have a dependable calendar because no two days are the same. However, business consultants are often met with common challenges that include:
- Accidentally double-booking themselves due to having separate client calendars
- Struggling to find time to allocate to task completion without being overrun by meetings
- Last-minute requests that require pivoting and can interrupt their planned workflow
Without the ability to stay organized, valuable time can be wasted checking calendars across multiple applications. It can also be wasted by consultants who may be prioritizing the wrong things.
How coAmplifi Can Help
While there’s nothing mundane about the daily life of a consultant, having an unpredictable schedule can be stressful and could quickly lead to burnout. For firms, this can result in unnecessary expenses that inevitably come with the hiring process and training of new consultants to bring them up to speed.
coAmplifi’s workforce management solution can help alleviate that stress and fight turnover in the following ways.
Create Calendar Transparency
Efficiently scheduling meetings and other events requires transparency with online calendars. It’s both unhelpful and unproductive to check a coworker’s calendar and see that either nothing is visible to you or you can’t tell what the coworker is actually in the middle of, which then requires wasted time reaching out to coworkers to ask about scheduling.
coAmplifi’s calendar feature enables all employees to view each others’ schedules across multiple client accounts. This helps employees easily see the following:
- Who’s working on what project in real-time
- What their team members have planned for the day
- Who might have the capacity for new projects
- What their coworkers’ working hours are across time zones
- When they’ll be working in the office vs. remotely if in a hybrid role
Enhance Task Prioritization
Juggling multiple projects per client for several clients simultaneously can be challenging and requires intentional prioritization. Your employees can effectively prioritize tasks with coAmplifi’s project management tools, which allow them to:
- Organize all tasks by importance, deadlines, and status
- Label projects as on hold, active, completed, validated, in a proposal stage, and more
- Have a visual of all their tasks so they can wisely plan out each day
- Create a personalized dashboard where they can see their to-do list as well as progressing and completed tasks
Keep Client Meetings Organized
Meetings are a daily occurrence for management consultants, whether in person or remotely and with clients or internally. It’s important to align expectations before each meeting so participants can come prepared with discussion topics and action items.
coAmplifi helps align stakeholders by allowing the following information to be added when creating a new meeting:
- The meeting topic
- Its associated project
- The client being discussed
- A meeting agenda
- Any relevant attachments, such as previous meeting notes or signed scopes of work
Attaching client information and notes can help consultants quickly remember meeting priorities and necessary information when jumping between meetings with different clients.
Efficiently Manage Time Tracking
It’s hard to feel accomplished when the workday speeds by. And when traveling is involved – which many consultants do 50%–80% of the time – it’s even easier for the workday to get away.
coAmplifi keeps a detailed record of your day, enabling employees to track time against certain projects and tasks. This helps them monitor their productivity and performance over time so they can identify potential areas for improvement.
With coAmplifi’s business analytics features, firms can also assess the time spent in meetings and track trends, which can help determine whether adjustments are needed to their organization’s processes.
Work Smarter With Workforce Management Software
From daily meetings and frequent traveling to creative problem-solving, it’s no surprise that consultants work an average of 60 hours per week. coAmplifi’s workforce management software for management consultants can optimize your employees’ calendars to provide a more sustainable approach to efficient time use.
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