I've just joined a consulting firm for a month. I am meeting with my mentor, a well respected partner who is kind and open-minded. I'd like to seek you opinion on what are the suitable questions to discuss.
On one hand, I do have some specific promlems and struggles that I am eager to collect advice. On the other hand, I'm not sure if asking these questions would expose my weakness and picture myself as someone not capable for this role.
Some questions that is on top of my mind and troubling me, which I'm thinking of asking the mentor would be as below:
1. Due to flat corporate structure, it's common that in some projects there's is no manager, and a consultant need to lead the team. How can I overcome this situation (for instance, probably asking to be pulled in projects where I can work with other consultants or projects with a manager who I can learn from)?
2.How to be more hypothesis driven and enhance story telling capability? (I have worked with this partner on my first projects, and indeed these are topics where I need to improve)
3. As a new joiner without suffient management consulting experience, how can I lead junior members when they might have more knowledge in specific topics?
Thanks for your advice!
