Proposals are opportunities to show that you have listened, and that you have understood. Management consultants are often criticized for simply playing back to their clients what they were told at the briefing stage. If that is all they do then the criticism is fully justified, but if this is their ‘opening’, before the meat of their report, designed to show that they have listened and understood, then there is no problem.
This is however something that requires a certain finesse. A well regarded technique is to use the customer’s words, their examples, their three letter acronyms, even their presentation style, all as a means to establish a rapport that says: we think alike. It’s also a great way to avoid one of the sins ...
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