Consultant Mentoring

Do you wish to become a management consultant?

For individuals who wish to become seasoned “Management Consultant – in the sphere of information Security, COBIT, ITIL Service Management or Business Continuity Management”, Coral offers a unique ‘mentoring service’ that combines training, project work, and live experience’ resulting in you becoming a professional ‘consultant’ or ‘ISMS/ITSM/BCM Manager’. Once qualified you can become either an ‘internal’ or an ‘external’ consultant’. Your acquired skills enable you to implement within your organisation or client. You may also apply to any consulting organisation – ‘worldwide’.

We perform a gap analysis on the individual and using a structured approach take him/her to the level of a ‘management consultant’. The focus of the service is an ‘individual’ and not ‘a group’.

The need for this is felt by industry demand for subject matter champions in the areas of ISMS, COBT, ITSM and BCM. The need is also felt by the fact that most public training courses provide an academic understanding of the subject. Such programs do not provide ‘focus on individuals’ and ‘practical step-by-step implementation’. The training stops at individual certification at the end of a “3 day” or “5 day” program, and the individual always have a ‘challenge’ of ‘validating the knowledge’ acquired.

What we offer is to fill-up this gap between ‘theory and practice’ by combining training, template creation, and live project experience to move an individual from a trainee to become a complete management advisor.

 
The service involves the following (but not limited to) key steps :
 
  • Individual ‘knowledge’ gap analysis : In this we conduct a gap analysis based on individual’s present credentials;
  • Roadmap Definition : Defining key knowledge milestones that enables him/her to fill the roadmap;
  • Training : This is personal training on key areas of the subject;
  • Project work : This will involve researching on a specific area in a subject for a specific period of time;
  • Documentary Templates : Ready to use templates to be used for advice/implementation/audit;
  • Assessment Experience : Technical and Management - Customers - internal or with Coral clients;
  • Coral Certificate on Practical Work Experience ending with “Coral Certified Consultant
  • Third party Independent validation of your work : Coral will provide validation of your acquired skill for employment – internal or external.

 
Mentor’s Profile
 

The mentors who coach you are not only ‘certified’ but have several years of experience of ‘implementation and advice’ to management of several organizations in India/overseas. More essentially they are ‘professional consultant trainers’.


 
Frequently Asked Questions :
 

Why trust Coral eSecure?
Coral has successfully advised 50+ organizations in the last 8 years on various aspects of ISMS/ITSM/COBIT/BCM. The methodologies that you learn have been used by these organizations to manage, measure and mature their management systems. The nature of these organizations range from Telecom, Banking, BPO, Network management, data center operations, Knowledge process outsourcing, business process outsourcing, and manufacturing. What you learn is not the ‘basics’ but a mature methodology of delivering consulting and advise to organisation of any size, in any business.

What should be an individuals’ minimum qualification?
We expect (not mandatory) the individual to have a management and a technical skill. In order to truly appreciate and being eligible for any Consultant program, an industry experience for more than 3 years in IT infrastructure/Software development/Compliance/Risk Management/Quality is preferable.

Do I have to leave my present job?
Not necessary. You can undertake this program while you are on job.

I am already certified to one of these subjects, what is there for me?
You have to make a judgment how confident are you with your acquired certification/skill to claim yourself as a ‘management consultant’? If you are confident, then you do not need this, unless you wish to extend your scope of consulting? If you are not confident, the reason perhaps lies in not having a comprehensive work/project experience. This is what we aim to deliver.

Do I have to be present in India?
No you can be anywhere in the world.

What is the fee for this?
This will be based on performing a gap analysis on you and defining what you expect to achieve, along with the time required. This is the first step to your assessment.