Choose from our range of books
Buy now

 

Subscribe to Cindy's ezine here

Sign up for the monthly ezine now. it tells you when we add content to the web site, come across interesting ideas, or discover new ways to do things. And of course when fun things happen.

Read the most recent ezine.

If you're looking for something in particular, try this new page of ezines by theme!

Here's what people say about my ezine:

  • "something I didn't even know I could be interested in until I read about it in your e-zine.  I always enjoy them and find value in them". Bronwyn Cross Left Field Project Solutions
  • "I've seldom read a newsletter with such interest and close attention, nor followed as many links in any newsletter... Real information, useful, entertaining"... Torunn HN Momtazi, photographer

Check out these ezines:

June 2008 - Back and then off again

April 2008 - Here's to the new!

  • Improving your consultancy: when to walk away from work; signs a client won't pay; working linked in, and page rank
  • Managing better: Careers in comics, free podcast books
  • Fascinating: knitting grannies and where you live is the most important decision of your life
  • Fun: sand art, book autopsies, Theatresports® and impro in Sydney

February 2008 - Busy, busy, busy

January 2008 - Make the most of it!

  • Improving your consultancy: Convert people to your way of thinking; Put a lense on Squidoo
  • Managing better: best business books for 07, facebook for good (and not evil)?
  • Fascinating: all you need to know about automata, and seminars from interesting minds on ted.com
  • Fun: buy hand made things, get a rice baby, a clever online promotion and impro

December 2007 - Merry Everything

  • Improving your consultancy: Saying yes more often, giving thanks, new type of medical practice
  • Managing better: Tips on marketing to Generation X; Pecha Kucha to cut out the waffle
  • Fascinating: Buy your own band, what stagehands do
  • Fun: Use your word power to feed millions, Name that tune on the web, and impro

November 2007 - Kangaroo month

September 2007 - People and Pirates

  • Improving your consultancy: Online experts, websites, Top 5 marketing mistakes
  • Managing better: how to quit your job, classic books by email
  • Fascinating: Sherrands and lice; how many people are being born now?
  • Fun: Amsterdam picnic of ideas; Get the Thing; Happy Birthday Agatha Christie; Cranston Cup of Improvising hits Sydney

August 2007 - Must haves, email and shoe laces

  • Improving your consultancy: must haves for your website; a French perspective on the basics of consulting
  • Managing better: When not to email; chief emotional officers and happiness at work
  • Fascinating: White board white goods; What's in your library
  • Fun: speak with authority, tie your shoe laces and Impro in Sydney.

June 2007 - NLP, Impro and Story

  • Improving your consultancy: Try the SU coaching conference, make PDFs online, sell with story
  • Managing better: Marketing across cultures, Brainstorming and the "Presentation Rebellion",
  • Fascinating: Crying and tears, what's in them, what they do for you
  • Fun: "finger" painting - a whole new take, Immortality through dolls, and Impro (of course) in Sydney.

May 2007 - Tools and Laughter

  • Improving your consultancy: A few tools for your business; tips on printing documents
  • Managing better: Helping people hear you, and managing emotions in the workplace
  • Fascinating: influencing better, laughter helps
  • Fun: conference games, a PC game, special offers for our fun workshops

April 2007 - Tapping into Talent

  • Improving your consultancy: Marketing as conversation, Invoicing from anywhere, Plateauing - redefining success, the cost of a bad customer, generating leads and copyrighting your web site
  • Managing better: Keeping up to date on management thinking and taking responsibility for problems
  • Fascinating: The Emotional Scale, Ban the bag
  • Fun: Cracker Comedy and Scared Scriptless

March 2007 - Travelling, marketing, managing

  • Improving your consultancy: 5 common mistakes with marketing plans; recognising a true buyer
  • Managing better: breaking bad workplace habits
  • Fascinating: America's favourite architecture, how healthy are we? and understanding Generation Next
  • Fun: Adult icecream vans, the history of daylight savings, and impro in Sydney

January 2007 - Giving it away, doing what you love

  • Improving your consultancy: marketing through freebies (and a gift for you), getting a name for yourself, resolving for the New Year and getting media attention
  • Managing better: Starting the day off well counts, learn from the Beatles
  • Fascinating: find out how rich you are in the grand scheme of things, some works by Escher
  • Fun: See some impro in Sydney

December 2006 - Brands Values and Books

  • Improving your consultancy: consultancy club with tips; bad web sites; building brand
  • Managing better: When values clash; teaching mistakes
  • Fascinating: Scientific American go wiki; What to put in a book proposal
  • Fun: cover versions; rent a garden; fix everything, including telemarketers, and play a game

November 2006 - Planning, words and sugar

  • Improving your consultancy: tax office help for your business records, strategic planning, advertising copy and photos
  • Managing better: Why people leaving your company is a good thing, and the top 10 management concepts
  • Fascinating: how much coffee makes you smarter, when to say no to sugary drinks, and the poop on podcasts
  • Fun: online improvised poetry, artist's sketchbooks, all about watercolour, and live impro - Scared Scriptless

October 2006 - New ideas, websites and image

September 2006 - Bali, play and coffee

  • Ludic Creative's next Life is not a rehearsal workshop
  • Improving your consultancy: tips on blogging, charging enough, if you bought a consultant's guide
  • Managing better : coffee makes you smarter! I got empathy, now what?
  • Fascinating: shopping meets anthropology, psychiatry meets marketing; CSI meets bus driving
  • Fun: Express your preferences; Gardening and music, see some impro, and get a note from the universe.

July 2006 - Holidays, jobs and ideas

June 2006 - Play, jobs and reengineering

  • improve your business with improvising
  • if the crazy boss is you, selling consulting and specialities
  • Reengineer your life; a new magazine and 100 bulls*** jobs
  • interesting ideas: Words, aging and small houses
  • and fun (as usual)

May 2006 - sanity and selling

April 2006 - business and games

  • Improvising in business - another Ludic Creative workshop
  • self-promotion and difficult staff - new articles on the website and a conference in Coolum
  • get a free e-copy of the Australian Consultant's Guide when you buy Consulting Mastery
  • networking, common gst errors and business plans
  • pricing your services
  • fun, of course

February 2006 - making it up as we go along

January 2006 - improvising, trends and money

November 2005 - happiness, answers and simplicity

October 2005 - helping, feeding back, overwhelm and busy-ness

  • Do your bit for birth defect research
  • Offices: Where did we come from? Where are we going?
  • Are you getting enough positive feedback?
  • A remedy for overwhelm if you suffer from it, or would like never to suffer from it!
  • Cool websites to play with!
  • Busy, busy, busy – how to look busy, and why you might want to be

July 2005 - coaching, information, logos , missions, moods

March 2005 - Promoting your business, clients and ideas:

December 2004

August 2004

The Consultants' Consultant is your resource centre no matter what type of consultant you are. You'll find lots of free tools, from articles to forms, templates, FAQs, checklists, and lots of useful links. You can also enrol in a course to improve your consulting and client managing skills.

For products that are even more useful in developing your consulting skills, you can purchase online any of our range of books and support tools. For each book there are web pages with further information, summaries, reviews and sample pages, including tables of contents.
You can also organise coaching from Cindy Tonkin The Consultants' Consultant herself. Get serious about your business.

Click to improve your consulting business

Click to create a business not a job

Click to learn more about promoting your business



Concentrate on getting something practical done in your business today.

Cindy Tonkin's newest title, The Consultants' Companion. Improving your consulting business 30 minutes a week is now available in ebook. Audit where you're up to, where you'd like to be, and then make it happen.

Making your consultancy a business, not a job, and Ten (more) ways to promote your consultancy business are filled with practical worksheets and suggestions on how to make a change for the better today.

You can buy them in paperback or in ebook version.

At $25 each they'll return many times their cover price when you put them into action!

Available now from the Consultants' Consultant.

Sign up for the monthly ezine now.

 

Being good is not enough. Read - Consulting Mastery for the secrets of Master Consultants now in Ebook

Improve your consulting business in 30 minutes a week - The Consultants' Companion - new book from Cindy Tonkin. Available as an ebook now.

Click to find out more

Australian Consultant's Guide reissued

The Australian Consultant's Guide has sold more than 5000 copies. Buy your ebook copy now!

 

Click to find out more
Cindy Tonkin on advanced consulting skills.
Beat the ability myth now

Forms, templates, checklists and more
Download them now
Cialdini's Influence at Work
Check it out now