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Consultant & Independent Contractor Agreements

Designed for both independent contractors and the businesses who hire them, Consultant & Independent Contractor Agreements is the most comprehensive guide you'll find anywhere. The book shows you how to: define a project's scope, components, and duration protect trade secrets, trademarks, patents, and copyrights satisfy IRS requirements get paid on time and in full avoid disputes The new edition is completely updated to provide the latest rules and regulations for businesses and contractors. It includes step-by-step guidance and all the forms you'll need to draw up the necessary contracts.

Consultant & Independent Contractor Agreements

Designed for both independent contractors and the businesses who hire them, Consultant & Independent Contractor Agreements is the most comprehensive guide you’ll find anywhere. The book shows you how to: define the scope and duration of the work to be performed protect trade secrets, trademarks, patents, and copyrights satisfy IRS and other government agency requirements establish pay and other compensation avoid disputes. The new edition is completely updated to provide the latest rules and regulations for businesses and contractors. It includes step-by-step guidance and all the forms you'll need to draw up the necessary contracts.

Consultant & Independent Contractor Agreements

Get your contract in writing With the rise of the gig economy, independent contractor arrangements are more common than ever. Whether you’re an independent contractor or a business hiring one to work for you, a written agreement will help to protect your rights, define expectations, and prove that there’s no employer-employee relationship. Here you’ll find specific agreements for many types of independent contractors and freelancers, including salespeople, accountants, software consultants, and construction contractors. You’ll learn how to: draft a binding agreement define a project’s scope preserve confidentiality distinguish between employees and independent contractors protect your intellectual property amend your agreement, and satisfy IRS requirements. Each chapter has two agreements—one geared towards the independent contractor and one geared towards the business hiring an independent contractor. The 10th edition—completely updated to provide the latest rules and regulations—includes a useful chapter on agreements for gig workers. With downloadable forms: download all the forms you need to draw up a solid contract (details inside).

Consultant & Independent Contractor Agreements

Whether you're contracting your services to others or hiring independent contractors to work for you or your business, it's essential to get everything in writing -- if you don't, you could lose time, money and credibility. Consultant and Independent Contractor Agreements gives you the plain-English instructions and easy-to-use forms you need to keep within the law, stay out of trouble and get the job done. If you're an independent contractor... Take the legal steps necessary to document each new project that comes your way -- if you get audited, you'll be glad you did. This easy-to-use book gives you all the tools you need to: put your agreement in writing define a project's scope, components and duration satisfy IRS requirements get paid on time and in full avoid disputes with clients drum up new business If you're hiring independent contractors... Using freelancers can get you great results and save you money -- but you need to know what it takes to avoid the ire of the IRS while protecting your business and intellectual property. Here's everything you need to: put your agreement in writing define a project's scope, components and duration satisfy IRS requirements protect your trade secrets, trademarks, patents and copyrights avoid disputes with independent contractors get your money's worth The 7th edition is completely updated to provide the latest rules and regulations for businesses and contractors.

Consultant's Handbook: How to Start and Develop Your Own Practice

a book for beginning consultants

Consultative Selling: The Hanan Formula for High-Margin Sales at High Levels

When you help your customers and clients make profitable business decisions, the result is a win-win solution that can lead to a mutually beneficial long-term business relationship.In Consultative Selling, sales consultant Mack Hanan helps you achieve just that by introducing a formula that will take your sales to the next level--one that involves you exchanging your salesperson hat for that of a trusted consultant. You&’ll learn how to:create a two-tiered sales model to separate consultative sales from commodity sales;build and use consultative databases for value propositions and proof of performance;study your customers&’ cash flows to win proposals;use consultative selling strategies on the web;and cope with--and reverse--the inevitable &“no.&”For over four decades, Consultative Selling has empowered countless sales professionals to reap maximum success.Now, packed with new partnering strategies, cost/benefit analysis templates, detailed monetized value proposition models, outcome-based branding approaches, and powerful consulting tactics, the eighth edition of this invaluable resource will bring you wide-ranging success--making the competition irrelevant.

Consulting Business

The experts at Entrepreneur provide a two-part guide to success. First, capitalize on your talents and learn how help others achieve their business goals as a consultant. Then, master the fundamentals of business startup including defining your business structure, funding, staffing and more. This kit includes: Essential industry-specific startup essentials including industry trends, best practices, important resources, possible pitfalls, marketing musts, and more Entrepreneur Editors' Start Your Own Business, a guide to starting any business and surviving the first three years Interviews and advice from successful entrepreneurs in the industry Worksheets, brainstorming sections, and checklists Downloadable, customizable business letters, sales letters, and other sample documents Entrepreneur's Small Business Legal ToolkitMore about Entrepreneur's Startup Resource KitEvery small business is unique. Therefore, it's essential to have tools that are customizable depending on your business's needs. That's why with Entrepreneur is also offering you access to our Startup Resource Kit. Get instant access to thousands of business letters, sales letters, sample documents and more - all at your fingertips!You'll find the following: The Small Business Legal Toolkit Sample Business Letters Sample Sales Letters

Consulting Demons: Inside the Unscrupulous World of Global Corporate Consulting

In this gripping and colorful account of the American dream gone astray, Lewis Pinault provides the essential guidelines on how to get ahead and an enlightening perspective on the brutal infighting that can engulf even the most civilized consulting firm. This stunning exposé of some of the most prestigious and respected names in the business leads you into a world where a client's interests are skillfully subordinated to those of the consultants, where money rules the day, and where principles and morals are unwelcome baggage.Humorous and insightful, this no-holds-barred account takes you behind the scenes of the dehumanizing indoctrination of an academic intellectual into an exploitative -- and exploited -- "global transformation contractor." Featuring new material dealing with the e-consulting industry's boom, bust, and its future, Consulting Demons offers the most complete look at an industry that exacts the highest prices for the most questionable standards of success.

Consulting For Dummies

Consulting For Dummies, 2nd Edition includes a reorganization and narrower focus of the topic, with new or updated information that delves into the specifics of running your own consulting business. There is greater emphasis on the business of consulting, along with financial and legal issues involved in setting up a consulting business, deepening coverage of consulting proposals, and entirely new chapters on higher-level consulting issues that more-established consultants are demanding.

Consulting For Dummies

Fully adapted for a UK audience by consultancy specialist, Philip Albon, this book is an essential guide for anyone considering making a career out of consulting. Offering practical advice on all aspects of setting-up and running a successful consulting business including; setting your fees, keeping track of time and money, building business with new clients, winning proposals and business networking, Consulting For Dummies is the easiest way to make a name for yourself and profit from your expertise. Sections will include:What's a Consultant?- Deciding to set up and finding a business directionThe Consulting Process- How to create a business proposal, analyse the data, develop recommendations, present the findings, and make sure they're implementedKey Consulting Skills- Presenting a professional image, time-management and organisation, communication skills, writing reports and presentations, using technologySetting up your Business- setting fees, drawing up contracts, setting up a home office, keeping track of time and money, multiplying effectiveness with support servicesMarketing- Promotion, getting new clients, using referralsPlus, new information on Business reality- preparing for tax audits and general small business financeThis UK edition of Consulting For Dummies will fully update readers on current e-marketing techniques and the current opportunities offered to those using the Internet to promote their business and build a client list. It will also be adapted to include core UK business and finance information, crucial for those setting up alone. Topics such as bookkeeping and basic accountancy have been added, plus content on UK tax and how government policies affect small businesses. This new edition incorporates updated currency systems in order to cater for the UK market.

Consulting Governance: Implementing Guidelines for Successful Projects (Business Guides on the Go)

Every consulting project has its governance, which is not always explicitly agreed with the client. This book describes the fundamentals of governance in consulting projects and explains the concept and the concrete implementation in practice. It describes the individual elements of consulting governance and illustrates the implementation with practical examples, accompanied by frameworks, reference models, roadmaps and checklists that facilitate the transfer into practice. In addition, the opportunities and risks of consulting governance are presented from the perspective of both the consulting client and the service provider, and the future of international developments of governance consulting are highlighted.The book is aimed at consultants, coaches, trainers and mediators as well as executives and project managers who are responsible for the implementation of consulting projects.

Consulting Governance: Strukturen, Prozesse und Regeln für erfolgreiche Beratungsprojekte (Beratung im Fokus)

Erfolgreiche Beratungsprojekte sollten die Regel sein – dieses Buch zeigt den Weg dazu auf. Die Implementierung einer Consulting Governance liefert die Grundlagen, um nachhaltig erfolgreiche Projekte zu ermöglichen – für Berater und deren Kunden. Die Elemente, Strukturen und Prozesse von Governance in Beratungsprojekten werden systematisch und praxisbezogen begründet. Adaptierbare Frameworks, Referenzmodelle und Fallstudien unterstützen den Transfer in die Praxis. Chancen, Risiken sowie ein Blick in die Zukunft von Consulting Governance verdeutlichen ihr Potenzial. Eine Checkliste der notwendigen Schritte zur Implementierung einer eigenen Consulting Governance rundet das Werk ab. Das Buch richtet sich an Berater, Coaches, Trainer und Mediatoren sowie Führungskräfte und Projektleiter, die für die Durchführung von Beratungsprojekten verantwortlich sind.

Consulting Is More Than Giving Advice

Effective management consulting has eight fundamental objectives: responding to a client's request for information; providing solutions to specific problems; giving an in-depth, accurate diagnosis; presenting a program of recommended corrective actions; implementing changes; building consensus and commitment; facilitating client learning; and enhancing organizational effectiveness.

Consulting Mastery: How the Best Make the Biggest Difference

Most consultants are content to solve problems. Extraordinary consultants alter the culture of the client organization itself, changing the way the organization operates. Keith Merron shows that the most powerful tool for making a real difference is the consultant's inner stance--the attitudes, assumptions, beliefs, goals, and strategies that underlie the consulting practice. In other words, it is the inner qualities of the consultant that differentiate a great consultant from the rest of the pack. Consulting Mastery explores the deep inner shift required to become an extraordinary consultant. Through vivid examples, Merron contrasts the goals, strategies, and tactics used by most consultants with those used by masterful consultants to reveal the qualities and characteristics that will help you make the biggest difference with your clients. If you yearn to have a bigger impact on your client organizations, or even on the world as a whole, Consulting Mastery shows how to transform yourself from a problem solver to an empowering partner. Following a natural flow of learning, it details the conceptual foundation of consulting mastery, provides a vision of mastery in action, and outlines a clear path to attaining mastery in oneself.

Consulting am Wendepunkt: Kritische Bilanz und zukunftsfähige Perspektiven

Wir brauchen Beratung heute dringender denn je – aber nicht die alte! Beratung, vor allem Unternehmensberatung, beeinflusst wirtschaftliches Handeln maßgeblich. Sie kann als zentraler Stellhebel für neuen Erfolg sowie für eine gelungene und zugleich renditestarke Transformation unseres Standorts hin zu mehr Nachhaltigkeit und verantwortungsvoller technologischer Innovation wirken. Dazu muss sich Beratung jedoch selbst neu aufstellen. Das Buch analysiert gründlich die zentralen gesellschaftlichen und wirtschaftlichen Problemfelder, die den gegenwärtigen Beratungskontext bestimmen, und beschreibt die historische Entwicklung wie auch die aktuelle Beratungsrealität. Die Autoren definieren Anforderungen an zukunftsfähige Unternehmen – und schlussfolgend – an eine Unternehmensberatung der Zukunft. Führungskräfte in großen und mittleren Unternehmen wie auch Forschende, Lehrende und Praktiker erhalten neue Anregungen und weiterführende Perspektiven.

Consulting for Business Sustainability: A Special Themed Issue Of Greener Management International (issue 54)

The fast-emerging sustainability consulting firms are nipping at the heels of the established consultancy giants who are scrambling to find their way in the emergent field of sustainability. The upstarts are challenging many of the established notions of how to add value to their clients' operations. By looking at the business world through what the sustainability expert Stuart Hart calls "new sustainability lenses", sustainability consultants are able to make sense of challenges that are baffling their clients. Moreover, they are also beginning to help their clients uncover new and sustainable value streams, the ultimate goal of good consulting practice. In Consulting for Business Sustainability sustainability consultants from around the world offer some of their perspectives and lessons on how to truly create sustainable value for their clients. Packed with new tools, advice and approaches, the book comprises a unique collection of wisdom from some of the leading lights in sustainability consulting practice. The areas covered include: developing best-in-class environmental management systems; sustainable design; supporting organisational change agents; working with key stakeholders; social impact assessments; human rights; and regulatory risk. The book will be essential reading for practitioners in business searching for advice and toolkits on how to make their sustainability initiatives bear fruit, for consultants looking for advice on how others have provided value to clients, and for students of sustainability looking for best-practice examples and exploring future careers in this burgeoning field.

Consulting im Gesundheitswesen: Professional Services als Gestaltungsimperative der Unternehmensberatung

Unternehmensberatungen stellen mit ihrem Leistungsportfolio einen bedeutenden Wirtschaftsfaktor dar. Die digitale Transformation und die sehr spezifischen Marktstrukturen der Gesundheitswirtschaft verlangen nach differenzierten Beratungsansätzen, die zugleich ein großes Beratungsfeld eröffnen und so das Wachstum und die Attraktivität von Unternehmensberatungen in diesem Segment stärken. Das Buch zeigt Themenfelder und Erfolgsfaktoren bei Beratungsprojekten auf. Dabei wird der Ansatz der Komplementärberatung in den Mittelpunkt gestellt, um den vielfältigen Change-Anforderungen bei der digitalen Transformation im Gesundheitswesen ganzheitlich gerecht zu werden.Beratungsprojekte lassen sich in Meilensteine unterteilen, um Projektfortschritte zu dokumentieren. Durch Maßnahmen und den Einsatz von etablierten Methoden lassen sich festgelegte Ziele beim Beratungsgeschäft erreichen. Die Beiträge in diesem Buch präsentieren zahlreiche Umsetzungsbeispiele aus konkreten Beratungsprojekten in der Gesundheitsbranche, die Beratern, Geschäftsführern, Top-Managern und anderen Entscheidungsträgern praktische Hilfestellungen und Inspirationen bieten.

Consulting in Uncertainty: The Power of Inquiry

The traditional model of consulting places an emphasis on diagnosing a problem and finding a cure. But in today’s business world of globalized organizations, rapid knowledge proliferation, and the intertwining of economies, that approach is becoming less and less viable; problems are quickly redefined, new knowledge (and ownership of that knowledge) is constantly surfacing and being challenged, and no solution is a permanent solution. Consulting in Uncertainty articulates a model of consulting that addresses the uncertainty and interconnectedness of the world in a post-industrial, knowledge era. Emphasizing outcomes and inquiry over ‘diagnosis’, Brooks and Edwards outline this new consulting model, as well as the skills consultants must bring to the table in any uncertain and dynamic environment. Integrating practical knowledge with scholarship, this book covers skills such as: Relational skills and the consulting relationship Cultural awareness and related skills Contextual analysis Facilitating inquiry Collecting and efficiently analyzing data or information Consultants and students of consulting, as well as managers, teachers, counselors, and even parents, will find this book enlightening and useful in navigating today’s uncertain world.

Consulting on the Inside: A Practical Guide For Internal Consultants

Consulting with NLP: Neuro-Linguistic Programming in the Medical Consultation

This extraordinary and practical book examines neuro linguistic programming (NLP) - the knowledge and skills to detect and affect thinking patterns - and applies it to each phase of the medical consultation. It outlines the NLP tools most useful to physicians who wish to understand and utilise the dynamic structure underlying the processes used by excellent communicators. It explains how improving communication skills and developing new models of consultation to incorporate into daily practice not only helps healthcare professionals become better communicators, but reassures patients, alleviating suffering and promoting healing. This book provides many case examples and includes skill based exercises to ensure easy and effective learning. There are unique, fresh perspectives on challenging areas such as anger and aggression, dealing with complaints, breaking bad news, the heartsink patient, uncovering hidden depression and telephone consulting skills. It is relevant to all healthcare professionals, and of special interest to general practitioners, GP trainers, counsellors and medical students.

Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole

How advertising and marketing seek to keep adults thinking like children and seek to advertise to children as if they are able to make choices as independent consumers.

Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole

"Powerful and disturbing. No one who cares about the future of our public life can afford to ignore this book."--Jackson Lears A powerful sequel to Benjamin R. Barber's best-selling Jihad vs. McWorld, Consumed offers a vivid portrait of an overproducing global economy that targets children as consumers in a market where there are never enough shoppers and where the primary goal is no longer to manufacture goods but needs. To explain how and why this has come about, Barber brings together extensive empirical research with an original theoretical framework for understanding our contemporary predicament. He asserts that in place of the Protestant ethic once associated with capitalism--encouraging self-restraint, preparing for the future, protecting and self-sacrificing for children and community, and other characteristics of adulthood--we are constantly being seduced into an "infantilist" ethic of consumption.

Consumed: Rethinking Business in the Era of Mindful Spending

As the effects of the global recession linger, consumers everywhere are changing their purchasing patterns, paying greater attention to what and why they are buying, and from whom. While many feel rampant spending is hard-wired into the modern psyche and that we will be back to our wasteful ways soon enough, there are clear indications of a permanent shift in the way we shop. Even before the economic downturn, consumers' definitions of value had begun to change. People were becoming more mindful about their purchases and more attuned to the social and environmental implications of their choices. To better understand this important evolution and its ramifications for business, Andrew Benett and Anne O'Reilly launched a groundbreaking study on the New Consumer and the escalating dissatisfaction over hyperconsumerism. Here, for the first time, is an in-depth look at the new face of the global consumer, showing that:• A significant majority in the seven markets surveyed are deeply worried about the direction in which our consumption-obsessed society is moving. They believe people have become both physically and mentally lazy, and that, as a society, we have lost sight of what truly matters.• Two-thirds believe they would be better off if they lived more simply, and a quarter say they would be happier if they owned fewer things. • Half of Americans surveyed are deriving a sense of satisfaction from reducing their purchases during the downturn, and three-quarters are feeling good about cutting back on the amount of waste they create. • A majority of Americans have no intention of going back to their old shopping patterns, even when the economy rebounds. Now, as the consumer voice signals its changed priorities, forward-thinking companies are responding by rejecting excess and artificiality in favor of products and communications that offer authenticity, substance, and interconnectedness—all values today's more mindful consumer craves. In this book, the brand experts look at corporations as diverse as Glenmorangie and Wal-Mart to see what lessons they can offer to businesses attempting to grow in the postconsumerism era. They also spoke with corporate leaders in a variety of industries to learn how they are recasting their businesses and brands in order to prepare for the changes ahead. Through cutting-edge research and a sharp look at new industry models, Consumed provides real direction for marketers and managers.

Consumed: The Need for Collective Change: Colonialism, Climate Change, and Consumerism

A call to action for consumers everywhere, Consumed asks us to look at how and why we buy what we buy, how it's created, who it benefits, and how we can solve the problems created by a wasteful system. We live in a world of stuff. We dispose of most of it in as little as six months after we receive it. The byproducts of our quest to consume are creating an environmental crisis. Aja Barber wants to change this--and you can, too. In Consumed, Barber calls for change within an industry that regularly overreaches with abandon, creating real imbalances in the environment and the lives of those who do the work—often in unsafe conditions for very low pay—and the billionaires who receive the most profit. A story told in two parts, Barber exposes the endemic injustices in our consumer industries and the uncomfortable history of the textile industry, one which brokered slavery, racism, and today&’s wealth inequality. Once the layers are peeled back, Barber invites you to participate in unlearning, to understand the truth behind why we consume in the way that we do, to confront the uncomfortable feeling that we are never quite enough and why we fill that void with consumption rather than compassion. Barber challenges us to challenge the system and our role in it. The less you buy into the consumer culture, the more power you have. Consumed will teach you how to be a citizen and not a consumer.

Consumer Activism in China: Video and Beyond (Consumption and Public Life)

This book investigates the origins, dynamics and impacts of the different nuances of contemporary short video activism tactics, by merging theories from social movement studies and communication studies including grievances theories, a renewed understanding of the concept of repertoires of contention and a critical media practice approach. It situates this phenomenon in the long durée of consumer activism in both the Global North and the South and demonstrates how short video activism constitutes a vibrant new phase in the historical evolution of activism in the Chinese socio-political context. It will be of interest to students and scholars of social activism, social movement studies, consumer culture studies and media practice.