About commissions: February 2010 Archives

We're having a great discussion on our private ACRE list serve, The Coaching Exchange, about consulting. It's clear from the discussion that there is still a lot of confusion about the role that a trained consultant performs and how they are paid for their services.

As we've said many times, consulting is not about a fee schedule! Consulting is a practice that provides quality, transparent choices with commission being just one of the choices offered. You can do 100% of your business by commission and yet practice as a consultant because you have the tools in your toolbox to offer other choices, both in the services you offer and how you can get paid. Providing choices is a wonderful thing - it brings you the business regardless of how they ultimately pay.