3 Becoming a Professional Consultant

DOI: 10.4324/9781003466987-3

The CMC Competency Framework

The word “professional” has several meanings and is dependent on context. In management consulting, the definition chosen is that a professional is “a highly skilled and experienced person who, for gain, does a job that needs special training and a high level of education, and whose performance is characterised by or conforming to the technical and ethical standards of the profession” [34, 35].

There are significant challenges to professionalism: An increasing ...

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