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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;color:navy'>Raffi, Joelle’s story is parallel to mine over the
past 26 years. Part of the key is to seek and take on projects that offer
opportunities for your growth. Best of luck.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> Joelle
Lyons Everett [mailto:JLEShelton@aol.com] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Friday, June 18, 2004 5:03
PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">OSLIST</st1:PersonName>@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: getting started in
consulting</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=black
face=Geneva><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Geneva;color:black'>Raffi--<br>
<br>
Your position in starting a consulting business is a lot better than mine was,
20+ years ago. I had a couple of years work experience, counting summer
jobs, 15 years out of the work world being home with my four children. No
management experience outside my home. A degree in English, a certificate
for the study of facilitating Creative Problem Solving, and a graduate-level
program in organizational change.<br>
<br>
I stuck to things I knew about, creative problem solving, communication skills,
planning skills. I found I had some abilities for facilitation and event
design. I have never pretended to have any expertise in the financial and
budgeting area of management. My general purpose, in my consulting work,
was to help move organizations in the direction of opening decision-making
processes to everyone in the organization, and tapping the wealth of creativity
and experience that were there. <br>
<br>
After about ten years, I discovered Open Space, and it felt much more powerful
than the methods I had been working with. I've gradually used it more and
more with client organizations, but I still offer them the choice of other ways
of working, and sometimes combine Open Space with other modes.<br>
<br>
When I was getting started, I found that I could get experience that I wanted
and needed by volunteering my services to a nonprofit organization, to do
something that I wanted experience in. Some of these volunteer
assignments also led to paying work--a member of a board I had worked with
might invite me to work with the board of another organization.<br>
<br>
If you think about the work you've done over the past few years, I'm sure you
will find that you have done a variety of management tasks, perhaps without
having any managerial title. You can find a way to include these on your
consulting resume. <br>
<br>
The managers I work with know far more about their business than I will ever
know. And many of them are expert and successful as managers (its usually
the good ones who want their organization to be even better). I bring my
expertise about supporting organizations while they change, and about facilitating
meetings which help move that forward. You have a lot of experience in
helping people come together and think about how to make their lives better,
often under the most difficult and painful conditions. And this
experience will stand you in good stead in working with other organizations as
well.<br>
<br>
Good luck! <br>
<br>
Joelle Everett</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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