{"title":"Mindful design of the sole-practitioner consultancy.","authors":"M. Sokol","doi":"10.1037/cpb0000153","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/cpb0000153","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53219,"journal":{"name":"Consulting Psychology Journal-Practice and Research","volume":"40 4 1","pages":"27-39"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83191761","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exploring career paths beyond academia for psychological scientists.","authors":"Meghan E. Norris, B. O'Toole","doi":"10.1037/cpb0000155","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/cpb0000155","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53219,"journal":{"name":"Consulting Psychology Journal-Practice and Research","volume":"12 1","pages":"8-26"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79554614","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article presents a capstone review of this special issue of Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research, concerning the business application of consulting psychology. Summarized are key points made by the authors of 5 articles. Topics include the essential business issues to address when starting a consulting business, managing a sole-practitioner business, creating and operating both an international consultancy and a domestic boutique firm, and the creation and operation of a large-scale product-based enterprise in the test-publishing and assessment domain. This review discusses the various articles in the context of the management-consulting industry as well as entrepreneurial theory and research. Conclusions regarding the parallels and differences between the different consulting models presented by the authors are discussed.
{"title":"The business of consulting psychology: Lessons from the field.","authors":"Larry W. Norton","doi":"10.1037/cpb0000159","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/cpb0000159","url":null,"abstract":"This article presents a capstone review of this special issue of Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research, concerning the business application of consulting psychology. Summarized are key points made by the authors of 5 articles. Topics include the essential business issues to address when starting a consulting business, managing a sole-practitioner business, creating and operating both an international consultancy and a domestic boutique firm, and the creation and operation of a large-scale product-based enterprise in the test-publishing and assessment domain. This review discusses the various articles in the context of the management-consulting industry as well as entrepreneurial theory and research. Conclusions regarding the parallels and differences between the different consulting models presented by the authors are discussed.","PeriodicalId":53219,"journal":{"name":"Consulting Psychology Journal-Practice and Research","volume":"43 1","pages":"68-76"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84626020","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article describes lessons learned during my 20 years of experience as an industrial– organizational psychologist building a global consulting firm based in Singapore. It explores themes including business growth and transformation, developing a client offering, cross-cultural interactions, scalability, and defining a clear purpose. Insights are provided for aspiring business leaders or professionals seeking to grow a psychological consulting business. What’s It Mean? Implications for Consulting Psychology Starting and growing a company is not easy. The challenge can be even greater when the firm is operating internationally from its inception. In this article, the author, an industrial–organizational psychologist from the United States, shares her insights and lessons of experience as the CEO of a global consulting firm that she founded in Singapore in 2000. Today the firm operates across six continents helping leaders and their businesses to solve their people and organizational challenges of growth.
{"title":"Global by design.","authors":"A. Eyring","doi":"10.1037/cpb0000156","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/cpb0000156","url":null,"abstract":"This article describes lessons learned during my 20 years of experience as an industrial– organizational psychologist building a global consulting firm based in Singapore. It explores themes including business growth and transformation, developing a client offering, cross-cultural interactions, scalability, and defining a clear purpose. Insights are provided for aspiring business leaders or professionals seeking to grow a psychological consulting business. What’s It Mean? Implications for Consulting Psychology Starting and growing a company is not easy. The challenge can be even greater when the firm is operating internationally from its inception. In this article, the author, an industrial–organizational psychologist from the United States, shares her insights and lessons of experience as the CEO of a global consulting firm that she founded in Singapore in 2000. Today the firm operates across six continents helping leaders and their businesses to solve their people and organizational challenges of growth.","PeriodicalId":53219,"journal":{"name":"Consulting Psychology Journal-Practice and Research","volume":"35 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81500118","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Inaugural editorial for Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research.","authors":"K. Nowack","doi":"10.1037/cpb0000157","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/cpb0000157","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53219,"journal":{"name":"Consulting Psychology Journal-Practice and Research","volume":"11 1","pages":"1-3"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87460281","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article describes my personal experiences as a business owner over the course of the last almost 40 years. To be descriptive I have used a lens that incorporates stages in the growth of a professional-services business and then the lens of reflections about my personal experiences. Although I have attempted to provide a flavor of the joys and fears inherent in each of these stages, for me the joys have far outweighed the fears. I simply cannot imagine a more stimulating, rewarding, fun, and challenging journey. When I started my business, MDA Leadership, I did not realize the multiple roles I would play—consultant, investor, leader, dreamer, creator, psychologist, and collaborator. Growing a business requires making trade-offs and trusting yourself to take risks. Luckily, I have had the good fortune of all of these stages becoming a team sport. I hope my story sparks some recognition, reflection, and ideas in you. This article addresses the career journey of a consulting psychologist who chose to create a professional-services business. It lays out the stages in the growth of the business and includes lessons learned within each stage.
{"title":"The evolution of a business owner.","authors":"S. L. Davis","doi":"10.1037/cpb0000151","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/cpb0000151","url":null,"abstract":"This article describes my personal experiences as a business owner over the course of the last almost 40 years. To be descriptive I have used a lens that incorporates stages in the growth of a professional-services business and then the lens of reflections about my personal experiences. Although I have attempted to provide a flavor of the joys and fears inherent in each of these stages, for me the joys have far outweighed the fears. I simply cannot imagine a more stimulating, rewarding, fun, and challenging journey. When I started my business, MDA Leadership, I did not realize the multiple roles I would play—consultant, investor, leader, dreamer, creator, psychologist, and collaborator. Growing a business requires making trade-offs and trusting yourself to take risks. Luckily, I have had the good fortune of all of these stages becoming a team sport. I hope my story sparks some recognition, reflection, and ideas in you. This article addresses the career journey of a consulting psychologist who chose to create a professional-services business. It lays out the stages in the growth of the business and includes lessons learned within each stage.","PeriodicalId":53219,"journal":{"name":"Consulting Psychology Journal-Practice and Research","volume":"1027 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77630377","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introduction to the special issue on the strategic design and management of psychology-based consulting firms.","authors":"M. Sokol, Larry W. Norton","doi":"10.1037/cpb0000158","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/cpb0000158","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53219,"journal":{"name":"Consulting Psychology Journal-Practice and Research","volume":"39 1","pages":"4-7"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80525323","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What leads to organizational agility: It’s not what you think.","authors":"E. Pulakos, Tracy M. Kantrowitz, B. Schneider","doi":"10.1037/cpb0000150","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/cpb0000150","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53219,"journal":{"name":"Consulting Psychology Journal-Practice and Research","volume":"64 1","pages":"305-320"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72885390","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Looking back to look ahead: Thanks for the ride; can’t wait to see what’s next!","authors":"R. Kaiser","doi":"10.1037/cpb0000152","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/cpb0000152","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53219,"journal":{"name":"Consulting Psychology Journal-Practice and Research","volume":"11 1","pages":"219-226"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80086555","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}