Which consulting firm is best known for developing your sales and client management skills?

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Develop? You've either got it or you don't boyo

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Try IBM - they have a pretty robust structure on training, once you start new into sales (I’m sure there are T&Cs attached).

However typically in consulting worlds most of the leaders are excellent delivery folks so for them sales is part their designation (say a Partner), part brand name and part delivery - that’s the definition of sales. So companies like Big4 depend on your “talent to pick up or talent BS your way out of everything” rather than guiding or grooming your skill sets. Of course I know of a few consulting leaders who are exceptional at sales but they are not many.

A smaller shop.

Sink or swim has a good way of motivating people to just figure it out.

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