The Next New Wave - Consultant-Coach Picture sourced from Pedro PintoToday, perhaps more than ever before, outside resources are being engaged to help organizations cope with downsizing, mergers, reengineering, savvy consumers, and heightened competition. Worries about recruitment and retention of key people, meeting employee and customer needs, and keeping up with the rapid rate of change are daily issues. For consultants, this period of demand constitutes both a boon as well as a challenge: how to incorporate the many advances in skills and technologies to stay competitive and in order to serve clients better? Many reputable consultants are choosing to remain current by adding a coaching component to their repertoire of services.