Communication in Consulting - Nikhil Kulkarni

 Communication in Consulting - Nikhil Kulkarni

We had a guest lecture today at NITIE in our business communication class delivered by one of our alumni, Mr. Nikhil Kulkarni also the co-founder of Darwin Tech; a travel technology startup working on products for the leisure holiday market. He has also previously worked with KPMG for more than 10 years before venturing out as an entrepreneur. This was an amazing and insightful session organized by our Professor, T.Prasad sir. It was a great learning opportunity. 

Some key points we had a chance to discuss with him were as follows. 

• Business Communication in Consulting 

He talked about how communication makes up 80% of our work and how as our career progresses, relationships also become more and more important. He emphasized that these relationships are built through effective communication. Documents like proposals, reports, executive briefing, detailed project reports, and work papers are prepared using Word, Excel, and Powerpoint. It is important to master these tools for effective communication.

Structuring your content — Pyramid Principle 
He emphasized on how important it is that the objective of the document be crystal clear before preparing it. Also, the audience of the pitch is an important factor. He mentioned how setting the context in which content is consumed is critical and the need for all aspects of the problem to be covered properly in a mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive fashion.
Creating Impact — Tips & Tricks
He also gave us few tips and tricks to make a positive impact like beginning presentations with the following. 
Using more statastics and images 
A relevant quote from someone famous 
A video to grab attention 
A question 
An activity 
Creating a 'Personal Brand' 
He suggested us to use channels like Blogs, LinkedIn,Twitter and Facebook effecitively to create a personal brand image for ourselves.