Get busy and find out how to do it

Theodore Roosevelt once said: “Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.” I consider this as the basics of a consultant life. Start without experience, learn as much as possible and get better at your job. At Atos Consulting an intensive training program is created for starters to prepare for the first assignments.

Prince2

As Project management skills are pivotal in most consulting assignments, we started with a Prince2 training. Prince 2 is based on 7 themes and 7 principles that occur in 7 stages. It is a way to understand different aspects in a process and a standard way to successfully manage a project. Shall I repeat that?

Fundamental Consulting Skills

After all excelling in the prince 2 exam, our starters group got a fundamental consulting skills training. This training focused on soft skills like giving feedback, constructive communication, how to be successful at an interview... At the end, we played the famous egg-game. The goal was to get an egg down from the roof of the room to the floor, without breaking it. The teams were only allowed to use the provided materials. Ever thought knitting wool, could help you get there? Well, I can say that this training was a great way to knit together with the other starters and created a nice team-spirit.

BPI

To get up to speed on Business Improvement, we got three training days. The training started with a game. We had to perform different tasks in a railway company that worked very administrative and had problems to close their sales. Afterwards our group of 10 starters was divided in 2 groups. As the training continued, we learned new concepts and started to adopt the old structure towards a new, better working one. At the end our solution closed more than 90% of sales against 7% at the beginning, a great result and a great way of learning.

ITIL (v3)

The adventure continued with an ITIL training. ITIL is focused on the best practices in service management. It deals with the different processes in a service lifecycle. For some the subject was so captivating, that they even created an ITIL table during lunch.

OBASHI

We finished with something entirely new. We were the first 10 people in Belgium to learn OBASHI. OBASHI visualizes how the IT architecture in a company works. It shows how the different layers in an enterprise are connected and how a breakdown or improvement can impact the entire working of the company.

After a hard first month of training, I was ready and eager to start on a project. As a matter of fact, today I had an interview. The interviewers asked questions about ITIL, PRINCE 2 and IT Architecture. I even taught them what OBASHI was. Thanks to the training I did quite well in the interview. Atos Consulting doesn't just send you to the client. They prepare you for future projects with the proper training and then support you as a junior. You are backed up by an experienced consulting team, specialized in all kinds of domains. And if in the future someone asks me if I can do a job, I’ll tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it. Just as I did during my first training month at Atos Consulting.