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JaneB
I fired a client last week. This is something I find hard to do, and have done only on very rare occasions. (But I've got much better at vetting potential clients before I accept them.)
I had had misgivings for quite some time. IMO, the main weakness stemmed from where it usually does (at the very top). And that certainly wasn't going to change. So after working at it for a considerable period of time, and attempting a number of strategies, I realised I had neither confidence in nor respect for their top management, and thus I really didn't feel good about working with them. At which point I terminated the engagement.
Now obviously, I've spent some time thinking it over, including action/s to make such an engagement even less likely in future. But I'm interested in other points of view, to hear if/when other consultants have fired clients. I'm defining 'firing' here as choosing to terminate an engagement and voluntarily ceasing to work with a client.
Have you ever done so? If so, when? Do you find it easy or hard? What criteria did you apply? And how did you disengage?
I had had misgivings for quite some time. IMO, the main weakness stemmed from where it usually does (at the very top). And that certainly wasn't going to change. So after working at it for a considerable period of time, and attempting a number of strategies, I realised I had neither confidence in nor respect for their top management, and thus I really didn't feel good about working with them. At which point I terminated the engagement.
Now obviously, I've spent some time thinking it over, including action/s to make such an engagement even less likely in future. But I'm interested in other points of view, to hear if/when other consultants have fired clients. I'm defining 'firing' here as choosing to terminate an engagement and voluntarily ceasing to work with a client.
Have you ever done so? If so, when? Do you find it easy or hard? What criteria did you apply? And how did you disengage?
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