Evolving a teaching strategy for developing students' consultancy skills through a real-world case study

This Paper addresses the collective skills and knowledge students must acquire to follow a career in consultancy and the means by which these can be meaningfully learned in the course of their studies. We show how students can be encouraged to identify the skills and knowledge they need to complete a mini realworld consultancy task of their own choice, and to reflect upon their experience through different assessment instruments. We then encouraged students to make a personal audit of their own skills and to use the opportunity provided by a real-world case, study to evidence the skills that they perceived were important to them.