Looking to Level Up Your Consulting Practice? Try Proworking

 

Whether you're committed to being a solo consultant or you're building the next multinational consulting powerhouse, you've got a lot on your plate. What you do isn’t just problem solving. It’s also the deep work of diagnosing those problems, implementing the solutions, and teaching your clients how to resolve – and avoid – similar issues in the future.

Complex work like that takes time, privacy, and a nimble support team – even if you’re running a one-person shop. A home office can be a comfortable choice, but it might not quite fit the needs of your workday – or meet demanding clients’ expectations.

Here are three times when a shared office space can level up your consulting practice and set you apart from less serious competitors.

When You Want to Build and Secure Trusted Partnerships

As a consultant, your business is based on trust – the trust you project that draws clients to hire you, and the deeper trust you develop with each client as they implement your advice and refer you to future clients. 

A proworking space can help you win and maintain that trust. It does that by providing…

  • Privacy features, including private office spaces with doors that lock and sound-dampening architecture to keep conversations confidential.

  • IT Security, such as individual Ruckus WAPs and comprehensive firewalls.

  • Guaranteed accessibility features.

All this helps you project trustworthiness from the jump. Many meetings may still happen over Zoom, but logging in from a professional office space – rather than, say, a communal coworking space or your dining room table – signals that you take your work seriously. 

 

When You Want to Work from a Healthy, Productive Space

Clients expect your best work. To consistently deliver at that level, you can’t treat your physical or mental wellbeing like an afterthought. To stay in the game for the long term, you have to build a practice that accommodates your physical and emotional needs.

Proworking spaces do that. They set you up for success with features that make supporting your health a priority.

How? Those sound-dampening features we mentioned above don’t just keep conversations private – they limit distractions. When you’re putting in long hours – whether strategizing a complex go-to-market campaign or developing a comprehensive DE&I plan – that’s important.

In addition to supporting focus and decreasing stress, Firmspace has updated HVAC systems to lower the chance of viral transmission. So those long hours working aren’t also spent incubating an illness – whether the seasonal flu or COVID-19 – or dealing with an allergy attack.

And when your work requires travel? If it’s to another Firmspace location, you can confidently work in office space that meets robust health standards.


When Your Clients Expect Amenities – and You Need a Team

There’s no avoiding it: home offices lack the amenities necessary for client-facing support. And the sodastreams and pingpong tables in traditional coworking spaces can’t offer the hands-on assistance you need.

Whether you’re writing a nonprofit’s five-year plan and want to print documents for an in-person review, or are troubleshooting technical issues ahead of a product launch, Firmspace’s professional services hub offers support services including:

  • Mail and shipping support

  • An onsite notary public

  • Private high-speed internet

  • Onsite IT support

  • Printer and copier access

  • Front desk and concierge support

Knowledge workers like consultants do a lot of heads-down work. But that doesn’t mean you can’t appreciate an assist from some good old-fashioned teamwork. Our professional services teams lend a helping, in-person hand that lets you respond to the ever-changing needs of your workday – and your clients.

And, of course, we do have snacks and beverages in the kitchen.

Proworking offers private space to help consultants cultivate trust

Some companies have put a pause on hiring full-time employees. Others are still facing a tight labor market – or navigating a distributed workforce while fully embracing remote work for the first time. 

The upshot is it’s a great time to be a consultant. 

You have the flexible mindset and experience necessary to help companies manage the current market – and plan for the future. The right proworking space can set you above the competition and help you win the companies you most want to work with.

If you need a place to do your best work – one that projects the trustworthiness you deliver to your clients – book a tour and see if Firmspace is right for you.

 
Firmspace Staff