Thanks Ozzy, that’s useful. I don’t have time to respond in full or say much more, but I will mention:
After reflection I still think that the catalyst needs to be something that solves the coincidence of wants issue (i.e., consultants don’t know who would hire them if they took the time to advertise and work in this space and orgs don’t know who they can hire or if it would go well).
I think that next steps that could help could be as simple as i) someone creating something like this for consultants in EA and posting about it on the forum when filled and ii) the next time someone does a survey of EA leaders they could ask them to benchmark how much more they to spend annually on consultants if they had the talent available, and for what exactly, then share that on the forum also.
I think that you go narrower after the first two steps are done as right now we don’t have much to work with. Though maybe Luke’s suggestions are evidence enough to form narrow directories in those areas, or to have them as ‘specialisations’ in the initial database?
I think that a talent agency is a great idea. I can imagine a ‘head-hunter/recruiter’ with contacts across both the organisations and the consulting networks would help to accelerate things.
Agree that working in existing orgs is a good idea for potential org founders. I am warming more to the RP incubator idea!
I agree that doing things as a sole contractor is probably easier but that’s also a lot more stressful for many people as you assume full responsibility for the work and need to be across all of the accounting and other aspects. It’s probably got some of the issues of being a sole founder in that it asks a lot of one person. It probably works well in a lot of cases though.
Thanks Ozzy, that’s useful. I don’t have time to respond in full or say much more, but I will mention:
After reflection I still think that the catalyst needs to be something that solves the coincidence of wants issue (i.e., consultants don’t know who would hire them if they took the time to advertise and work in this space and orgs don’t know who they can hire or if it would go well).
I think that next steps that could help could be as simple as i) someone creating something like this for consultants in EA and posting about it on the forum when filled and ii) the next time someone does a survey of EA leaders they could ask them to benchmark how much more they to spend annually on consultants if they had the talent available, and for what exactly, then share that on the forum also.
I think that you go narrower after the first two steps are done as right now we don’t have much to work with. Though maybe Luke’s suggestions are evidence enough to form narrow directories in those areas, or to have them as ‘specialisations’ in the initial database?
I think that a talent agency is a great idea. I can imagine a ‘head-hunter/recruiter’ with contacts across both the organisations and the consulting networks would help to accelerate things.
Agree that working in existing orgs is a good idea for potential org founders. I am warming more to the RP incubator idea!
I agree that doing things as a sole contractor is probably easier but that’s also a lot more stressful for many people as you assume full responsibility for the work and need to be across all of the accounting and other aspects. It’s probably got some of the issues of being a sole founder in that it asks a lot of one person. It probably works well in a lot of cases though.
Hi Peter,
I already created a directory for EA aligned consultants.
Best,
Jona
Excellent! Sorry, I didn’t know about this. I will promote it to a few relevant people.