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The Emerging “Soft Skills” Gap

Fox 59 In The Morning

How smoothly do your organization’s wheels turn? Our most successful clients understand the value of working with Professional Skills Consulting, Inc. is the work that is done in-between various areas of your gears. This is where problems exist and solutions are most valuable.

Communications, time management, creativity, efficiency, productivity… these are all professional skills. We offer ways to ensure that each gear in your organization works more effectively with others.

Becoming more effective is about making people enjoy their jobs more. You define your culture, we help you refine it! Every project result has a different shape. It is about working within your budget, getting the most from your resources and producing self-sufficient environments no matter what the industry.

Out of respect for the privacy of our clients, we only include client types on this site. However, direct client references will provided upon request.

Business Consulting:

The term “Business Consulting” means all sorts of things. But at Professional Skills Consulting, our Business Consulting Service centers around tangible initiatives that make your business run leaner, more efficiently, more organized, and more effective.

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Corporate Training:

A painless but thorough extensive meeting with your management team and Professional Skills Consulting allows our training events to integrate “Your Company Culture” with expanded thinking specific to your teams needs.

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Speaking & Workshops:

Making your conference dynamic and memorable is what Professional Skills Consulting strives to accomplish with its speaking and workshops. Professional speakers from Professional Skills Consulting save your company cost and headaches. You will deal directly with our firm, no third parties, or speakers bureaus. Contact us today for your next event, we will connect you with past client success stories.

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“[Professional] Skills Consulting conducted focus groups for us to determine what our customers knew about our services. The project was completed in a timely manner, on budget and frankly, I received more value from this project than what I paid for! The information was very helpful and I am still using the data to determine my communication messages and how my advertising dollars are spent. This project was completed almost one year ago and I am still using the data…….now that is real value!“

Leesa Smith – Director of Marketing
Fairbanks Addiction Treatment Center

Learn more about the “Skills Gap” this week by watching Inside INdiana Business television with Gerry Dick.

Professional Skills Consulting helps you achieve your potential!

The term “Business Consulting” can mean different things to different people. At Professional Skills Consulting, our services center around tangible initiatives that transfer skills to make your business run leaner, more efficiently, more organized, and more productive. Our tactical and strategic approach affects your bottom line immediately, and the return on your investment is without question.

Business Consulting:

• Client Focus Groups
• Company Culture Improvement
• Dashboard Creations
• Database Creation for Project Management
• Desk/Office Organization
• Forms Development
• Marketing Surveys
• Media Interaction
• Org Chart Issues
• Process Analysis – Sales & Internal Operations
• Process Manuals
• Statement of Qualifications Development

Corporate Training:

• Administrative Staff Effectiveness
• Application “Tips and Tricks” (Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel, Word)™
• Communications Training
• Management Style Refinement
• Presentation Skills
• Project Management Improvements
• Time Management
• Training Plans

Speaking & Workshops:

Professional speakers from Professional Skills Consulting save your company cost and headaches. You will deal directly with our firm, no third parties, or speakers bureaus. Contact us today for your next event, we will connect you with past client success stories.

• Strategic Planning Workshops
• Team Building
• Communications & Professionalism
• And more…

In that order… with no exceptions! Our clients share these priorities. While we all must make a profit to stay in business, our goal is to offer you more service than you would expect for your project. Ethics must remain the top priority. This trust ensures our success. Are you surprised to hear this from a consultant? It is why we are still consulting after nearly ten years!

Many companies work very hard to set strategic goals, but fail to get beyond tactical hurdles. Our style of problem solving is about looking at things with a new perspective and making better use of resources. Professional Skills Consulting defines these resources as – “Time, Space, Budget, People, and Tools.” We will help you use your own resources more creatively and instill these skills within your organization for future benefits.

The great news is we have found a way to present our clients with an additional level of return on investment. Together we will ensure these tactical projects are completed within our resource improvements. With Professional Skills Consulting you will NEVER get an expensive report listing your problems – you WILL get tactical solutions to those problems. We roll up our sleeves and work with you until your problems are solved.

Our clients often comment on the vast range of services that Professional Skills Consulting is capable of offering. The one-stop shop approach is a great value. Occasionally, it is important to provide you with a unique connection to a vendor. In that instance, there will NEVER be a referral fee involved. We would rather you reap a discount on those services, than for us to take a kickback. Ethics… Service… then Profit, we mean it! Your success is our success.