Accredited Consultant – Candidate Information Guide

Telephone Interview

In order to arrange or confirm your telephone interview appointment with an authorized Appleton Greene representative, please CLICK HERE and follow the instructions accordingly. It will only take you 5-10 minutes.

This is not a service order and represents no obligation on your part. It is merely a formal request for an opportunity to undertake a personal interview with an authorized representative of Appleton Greene. It represents an opportunity for Appleton Greene to evaluate and assess your potential candidacy for a position as an Accredited Associate, Executive, or Senior Consultant and it also provides you with the opportunity to enhance your own understanding and interpretation. Before you request a personal telephone interview, please kindly take the time to read through all of the Appleton Greene Accredited Consulting Service (ACS) Candidate Information Guide thoroughly, in order to enhance your own understanding and interpretation relating to this professional business opportunity. It should only take you approximately 30-60 minutes to do this and will help you to fully understand everything that you need to know. Once you have done this, you can then complete the Telephone Interview Request (TIR) Form in order to arrange a mutually convenient appointment for a telephone interview. Once Appleton Greene has received this form, a representative will then contact you via email in order to arrange or confirm your appointment. Thank you for your courtesy and kind interest in Appleton Greene.

Evaluation Process

Appleton Greene & Co takes great care to ensure that candidates are evaluated and assessed carefully before being offered a position as an accredited consultant. The application process takes a minimum period of four weeks and incorporates the provision of detailed service information and the requirement for the candidate to complete a detailed application form, incorporating Appleton Greene’s terms and conditions of service. This provides ample time for due consideration. You will need to allow a period of up to 7 business days for your application to be reviewed, evaluated and processed. Appleton Greene is limited in terms of the number of accredited consultant places that are available and applications are only usually considered once annually. The quality of applications that we receive at Appleton Greene is always extremely high and as such we reserve the right to respectfully decline applications, which are not considered to be of the required standard. If your application is ultimately approved, then a formal offer will be forwarded to you and you will then have a further 7 days in which to arrange the payment of your annual service fee. Your statutory rights are not affected.

Business Development

If you have taken the time to review the Appleton Greene web site, then you will have determined that the company is primarily a corporate training provider, specializing in the provision of standard and bespoke programs to client companies, which all focus upon business process improvement.

We have an extensive portfolio of corporate programs available to clients, which are developed and implemented by hundreds of Appleton Greene Certified Learning Providers. The common denominator with all of these programs is that they are all process-orientated. In other words, each program facilitates the implementation of a tangible process, within the client’s organization, enabling them to improve their process in relation to the specific service subject matter of the program. These programs can focus upon any of the following departments: Customer Service; E-business; Finance; Globalization; Human Resources; Information Technology; Legal; Management; Marketing; or Production. To see some examples of these, please select SERVICES from the home page followed by BESPOKE PROGRAMS. Because these programs are process orientated and are implemented over a sustainable period of time, usually 5 years, there is always a significant outsourcing requirement with each program. This is where Accredited Associate, Executive and Senior Consultants are required.

These programs incorporate participation from a wide variety of Appleton Greene Accredited Associate, Executive and Senior Consultants, who each bring their own individual experience relating to the specific business skills and services which they have, the industry sectors they have worked within and the geographical locations where they have commercial knowledge. If additional expert knowledge is required then our Learning Providers have access to hundreds of other Appleton Greene Consultants, with a variety of different industry sector experience and geographical experience, located within most major cities worldwide.

A Certified Learning Provider (CLP) will typically manage a portfolio of 10 client companies with one program, although many learning providers develop and implement multiple programs. There are approximately 750 learning providers now, which means that Appleton Greene can be servicing approximately 7,500 companies at any one time, although there are 500,000+ individual contacts within the Appleton Greene global client network. You can review our client list by selecting CLIENTS from the home page. There are also literally hundreds of testimonials available from clients which are published online and you should take the time to review these. Each individual client company will be outsourcing to a number of Appleton Greene Accredited Consultants, where there are business projects developed as a result of the individual Appleton Greene program, which is being implemented. Indeed approximately 70% of consultancy assignments are generated directly from Certified Learning Providers (CLP), so this proves to be a significant source of new business for Accredited Consultants and Learning Providers are rewarded by receiving an introduction fee amounting to 10% of the total invoice value of any and all consultancy engagements that are generated from their own training programs. The remaining 30% of consultancy assignments are generated by clients themselves.

The type of assignments undertaken by Appleton Greene Consultants ranges from participation in program delivery, including presentations, workshops and meetings, to providing specialist support via email or virtually through the Appleton Greene cloud servers. Indeed the majority of Appleton Greene accredited consultants work virtually from remote locations internationally using Appleton Greene cloud servers. Consultancy assignments can also be generated in relation to specific projects that clients may be planning and implementing, in relation to the Learning Provider’s program. For example, if a Learning Provider was implementing a Business Development program with a consumer product client located in New York, it may be that there is a requirement to develop new business within emerging markets, such as India, China, or South America, in which case Accredited Consultants with Business Development expertise and geographical experience within these locations, could be engaged by the Learning Provider because of their specific geographical knowledge and experience. Similarly, Accredited Consultants may also be engaged because of specific industry experience that they may have and which is subsequently requested by the client. Accredited Consultants may also be engaged because of specific service skills that they may have and which are perceived as necessary by the client.

Appleton Greene Business Development Process

There is no business development activity required on your part whatsoever. Appleton Greene is looking for Consultants, not Sales People.

CONSULTANT PROFILE FORM
Once your application to register as an Accredited Associate, Executive, or Senior Consultant has been processed, Appleton Greene will facilitate the development of your Consultant Profile. The purpose of the Consultant Profile is to provide potential clients and learning providers with an Executive Summary of your education, work experience, industry and geographical experience, service skills and corporate achievements. Clients and Learning Providers can then elect to search for this information by industry sector, or by geographical location, as and when they have a requirement to engage the services of Accredited Consultants.

To see some live examples of Consultant Profiles, please select CONSULTANTS from the home page, followed by one of the client service departments listed. Then select either SEARCH BY INDUSTRY or SEARCH BY LOCATION. The former option features a selection of industry sectors and when you click on the industry sector of your choice, the Accredited Consultants who work within the chosen industry sector will be featured in random order. Similarly, the latter option features a selection of geographical locations (continents, countries and cities) and when you click on the location of your choice, the Accredited Consultants who work within the chosen location will be featured in random order.

Only the last names of consultants are featured within the Consultant Profiles in accordance with Appleton Greene’s privacy and security policy. The complete names and personal contact details are only provided to registered clients after written authorization has been received by Appleton Greene. Clients can complete a Member Consultant Information Request Form, if they would like to receive further information about the Accredited Consultant they are interested in, but these application forms are forwarded directly to and are verified by Appleton Greene for authenticity. Please note that Member Consultant Information Request Forms are for client use only.

CLIENT INFORMATION GUIDE (CIG)

Once your Consultant Profile has been approved and published by Appleton Greene, your Client Information Guide (CIG) will then be developed. You can see a live example of this by visiting the following page: CLICK HERE. The purpose of the Client Information Guide (CIG) is to provide potential clients and learning providers with much more information about the proposed consulting services that you can provide, including an executive summary, service objectives, methodology, industry sectors, location countries, clients or employers, service benefits and service process. The Client Information Guide (CIG) is then linked to four optional client service application forms, namely the Bronze Client Service, the Silver Client Service, the Gold Client Service and the Platinum Client service, which potential clients and learning providers can then use to place direct consultancy service orders with you. Once again you can review examples of all of these client service order application forms and the associated terms and conditions of service therein, by visiting the following page: CLICK HERE and then by clicking on the appropriate client service application form. Please note that all of the client service order application forms are for client use only and are forwarded directly to Appleton Greene and are verified for authenticity.

ACCREDITED CONSULTANT PROMOTIONS

Once the Consultant Profile and Client Information Guide have both been developed, approved and published on the Appleton Greene web site, (usually within the first month) then Appleton Greene publishes and distributes this information via email to approximately 750+ Certified Learning Providers and 500,000+ contacts within the Appleton Greene global client network, gradually and over a sustainable period of time, throughout your designated period of membership. This enables you to create awareness and to establish credibility with learning providers and potential clients. Your Client Information Guide also incorporates four optional consulting service order application forms, enabling clients to place consulting service orders directly with you, after having reviewed the consulting services that you can provide. It may help you to understand the specific nature of the consulting services that you would be undertaking, if you take time to review each of the four client service order application forms, details of which are provided above.

TIME PLANNING

Your Consultant profile and Client Information Guide should both be developed and published within the first month of membership, depending upon your own current commitments of course. This means that Appleton Greene can usually start promoting these from the second month of membership, so it would certainly be possible to start generating interest and consulting service orders from the second month. Success will ultimately be determined by third party learning providers and client companies of course and each individual consultant’s service offerings will be entirely different. As such it is understandably impossible for Appleton Greene to provide individual consultants with a time plan for business development, because it will be different in each individual case. Appleton Greene understandably provides individual Accredited Consultants with no guarantees of success. However, the income projections provided within your service information guide are based upon the average annual income of all consultants featured within each service category.

SERVICE FEES

Appleton Greene charges an annual service fee of USD$950.00 for Accredited Associate Consultants (AAC), USD$1,225.00 for Accredited Executive Consultants (AEC) and USD$1,500.00 for Accredited Senior Consultants (ASC). These service fees merely cover the cost of developing the Consultant Profile, Client Information Guide and the provision of the Consultant Promotions